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What kind of for-profit business can operate as a co-op? Any kind, from ceramics studios to child care centers, grocery stores to gyms. Here’s how to start your own worker-owned co-op, according to ...

Myriam Siftar cried tears of joy. It was March 2012, and she was at the grand opening of Mariposa Food Co-op’s new home, a Greek-revival style former bank building on Baltimore Avenue in West ...

The idea of ditching corporations that answer only to shareholders for mission-driven models that share power with workers can sound pretty appealing. But how would it actually work? Well, it might ...

Uber-urban South Philadelphia might seem an unlikely place to find the next generation of naturalists, environmentalists and outdoor aficionados. But over the past four years, Adam Forbes, founder and ...

Ever since Elizabeth Luce began training to become a yoga teacher, she wanted to teach classes outside. Now, every Tuesday evening, she leads a class right on the Delaware riverfront. “The best part ...

A version of this story originally appeared in Hidden City in 2024 and is shared courtesy of that publication. For nearly two centuries, humans and Mother Nature have tangoed on League Island, the ...

My daughter and I wended our way through the streets of our West Philly neighborhood, shunted block after block by fire department barricades. We were heading from a playground, where we had started ...

The offers come with a knock on the front door, a white envelope in the mail or a greeting from a fresh-faced salesperson at the farmers market. “Make the switch to clean energy.” But the rates ...

When Robert Thomas, 78, was 11 years old, he envisioned a hiking trail in Northwest Philadelphia that would follow the corridor of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s abandoned Fort Washington branch. He even ...

In February, The Philadelphia Inquirer published — in print and online — an op-ed by former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. Titled “We should support an affordable, inclusive energy transition,” ...

It has been five years since the pandemic disrupted Philadelphia’s recycling program, leading to service delays that stretched on for weeks and consigning the contents of so many blue bins into trash ...