Pennsylvania community activism news

• The Landmark Settlement That Could Get Plastic Pellet Pollution Out of America’s Rivers, reasonstobecheerful.world (Sep 22, 2025)
• Turning lawns into meadows can have big benefits for people, wildlife and the climate. Here's why 'meadowscaping' has become the latest gardening craze, BBC Future (Apr 27, 2025)
• ‘It will be beautiful to see our kids grow up with this’: how communities around the world are planting trees, theguardian.com (Apr 19, 2025)

• From Asphalt to Inspiration: The Student-Led Transformation of America’s Schoolyards, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 04, 2024)
• Once Known for Its Pollution, Pittsburgh Becomes a Poster Child for Climate Consciousness, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 08, 2024)

• Free Therapy Putting Philadelphia’s Black Men on a Path to Healing, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 30, 2023)

Civic Commons: Spreading opportunity to the whole city, Jul 10, 2017...^[1]

• Can parks save Philadelphia? Feb 21, 2017...^[2]
• From isolation to interdependence: How Reimagining the Civic Commons is connecting Philadelphia, Nov 8, 2016...^[3]
• City releases reworked sustainability agenda calling on all Philadelphians to participate, Nov 2, 2016...^[4]
• Pittsburgh is using 10 goats and their donkey guardian to cut unruly grass, March 10, 2016...^[5]

References

• Tracks from railroads' past seen as path to future, August 16, 2015...^[1]
• University of Pittsburgh students plan urban ag law firm, May 17, 2015...^[2]
• Transition Reflections: Joni Carley, Happiness Maker, April 9, 2015...^[3]
• Transition Town Media opens a FreeStore in Media, May 1, 2014...^[4]
• The New Philadelphia Story Is About Green Infrastructure, December 18, 2013...^[5]

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