Year: 2010

https://vimeo.com/18394506] Major institutions, local businesses and households across Philadelphia are doing it— saving energy, renewing resources and going green. Just this February the city of Philadelphia joined with Recycle Bank and launched a recycling rewards [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/18393740] A dozen tiny hands shoot up in the air. Bodies shake anxiously in anticipation as their mouths emit sounds of “Ooh!” and “Memememe!” One such small body is chosen to answer. As his smile [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/18393255] Ivan Cox is on his way to the barber shop at Ashmead Street and Germantown Avenue. He stops before he enters the shop, looks down the street and shakes his head at the two [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/18393618] Michele Holloway asked the question, “What don’t you like about the park?” to a group of 30 youth from Hunting Park on Friday night. A hand shot into the air, “Trash.” And another, “Violence.” [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/20204248] Most people need nothing more than snacks, soda and cigarettes from their local corner grocery store. They don’t expect to find rows of fish laid out on mounds of ice, with pairs of beady [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/18394175] As Ronald Hinton, the president of the Allegheny West Foundation, loads boxes of surplus Easter cupcakes onto the shelves of the Tastykake outlet that is staffed by Allegheny high school students, he beams with [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/18391707] Joe Ragsdale, owner of the Least We Forget Museum, brushes off the odd fact that his facility focusing on America’s ugly history of slavery seems totally out of place in Port Richmond, a Philadelphia [continue reading…]

https://vimeo.com/18394748] Making a critical decision to get a hair cut or pay a bill leaves many under close watch of how their money is spent. Current economic conditions are getting worse. Money has become tight [continue reading…]