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Growing Up and Green
Imagine you are living in the city and you notice the lack of space in your home for gardening. Perhaps you have an aloe plant or a...
Brenda Vong
May 24, 2021


Efforts to Reduce Bird Collisions in Philadelphia
Have you ever seen a dead bird on the sidewalk when walking around the city? Many of these deaths are the result of birds colliding with...
Taisia Osipova
May 13, 2021


Future Stewards at the Nursery
LandHealth Institute's Native Plant Nursery isn't just a destination for native flora. This Spring, 8th and 9th grade students from...
Kiara Buker
May 3, 2021


Earth Day Walk Through the Wissahickon
On Earth Day, the LandHealth Founder, Scott Quitel, led a tour through the Wissahickon, discussing its patterned history in the region...
Robert Dukes
Apr 25, 2021


Urban Gardens- The Logan Triangle
A New Angle on the Triangle “Give yourselves a hand,” said Sandra Harmon, with great enthusiasm. Sandra is the Data and Outreach...
Scott Quitel
Jul 24, 2020


Nursery and Partnerships
LandHealth’s native plant nursery re-builds natural and human habitat in Philadelphia Part of LandHealth’s mission is to introduce people...
Taisia Osipova and Steve Jones
Jun 18, 2020


How Coronavirus is Impacting the Environment
Air Pollution Due to the many varying factors surrounding COVID-19, there have been significant reductions in air pollution and CO2...
Maddie Worth
May 15, 2020


LandHealth's Bookshelf: Ecology of Center City Philadelphia, by Kenneth D. Frank
Your average Naturalist has a close relationship to their books. Now, I’m not saying it needs to work that way or works that way for...
Dan Kobza
Feb 24, 2020


Community Gardening at Logan Triangle
At LandHealth Institute, we have a special interest in neglected urban land. Neglected land in a city isn’t just an eyesore or a place...
Dan Kobza
Feb 14, 2020


Logan Triangle
Imagine a vacant lot in Philadelphia. There’s probably some grasses, some weeds, some trash. Maybe there’s a tree. Maybe there’s illegal...
Jackson Quitel and Dan Kobza
Feb 7, 2020
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