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4,102 years. That is how long Innocence Project clients have collectively spent wrongfully convicted.
257 victories since 1992, 205 through DNA testing. You don't get that time back.
#InnocenceProject #Justice Small and diverse businesses don't need charity. They need opportunity.
Customers. Contracts. Capital. Connections. And access to the rooms where decisions get made.
Thank you Keith D. Ellison and the Urban League of Greater Philadelphia.
#Philadelphia #SmallBusiness Philadelphia arts grants fell from 10 cents per capita to ONE CENT, and cultural organizations cut staff 47%. Atlanta, Cleveland, Phoenix and Sacramento invested and grew.
Arts and culture is not charity. It is jobs.
WHAT NOW?
#Philadelphia #PhillyArts Philadelphia has ~40,000 vacant lots and about 450 growing spaces on 130 acres.
Sankofa Community Farm works 3.5 acres at Bartram's Garden and sends out 80,000+ seedlings a year to ~130 gardens citywide.
A farm that plants other farms.
#UrbanAgriculture #Philadelphia A new combine costs more than a median Philly house. US farms will carry $624.7bn in debt this year.
Tim Biello could not afford land. A farmland fund backed a lease to own, and he farms 63 acres behind four draft horses.
A tractor depreciates. A horse multiplies.
#FoodSystems #LocalEconomy Every city is writing an AI policy. The ones that matter are writing purchase orders.
Read what the policies do: name approved vendors, mandate training, create procurement pathways.
That is not regulation. That is shopping. And the shopping is where the power sits.
#AI #LocalGovernment Four hospitals hold just under 52% of every job in University City. HUP, Penn Presbyterian, CHOP, the Crescenz VA.
Nearly 85,000 jobs. 11% of Philadelphia's, on 1.69% of its land.
An anchor and a single point of failure are the same sentence.
#Philadelphia #UniversityCity Big ideas are easy. Coordination is hard.
A report nobody acts on is an expensive document. Reports to results, then count the impact.
Then inspect what you expect. On a schedule, not once.
#LocalEconomy #Philadelphia Employers lose $38 billion a year to child care and file it under personal problems.
Whole bill: $172bn. Families $134bn, employers $38bn, taxpayers $37bn.
2018 it was $57bn. That is a line going up.
#ChildCare #EconomicDevelopment Only good things happen when we localize the economy. Dollars stay here. Jobs stay here. Pride comes back.
It takes an asset map first, then connecting the dots between what is already here.
#LocalEconomy #Philadelphia Philadelphia's hospitals and universities buy over $5 billion a year.
The program built to move some of it to local firms has shifted $38.6M. The target is $500M.
None of it needs new money, only a decision about where existing money lands.
#LocalEconomy #Philadelphia What if what Philadelphia calls waste isn't waste at all? What if it's inventory?
We pay to haul it away, bury it or burn it. How much economic value are we literally throwing away?
#CircularEconomy #Philadelphia I've never understood the obsession with somebody else's sexuality.
Your discomfort doesn't give you jurisdiction over somebody else's existence.
Donated to It Gets Better again today.
#LGBTQYouth #ItGetsBetter FOOD IS INFRASTRUCTURE.
Use publicly owned land. Use patient public capital. Bring in experienced private grocery operators.
Atlanta is doing it. New York is doing it. PA pioneered the model 22 years ago.
The tools aren't missing.
#FoodIsInfrastructure #Philadelphia Mexico City has 20,922 farm plots inside its boundaries. 17,336 are abandoned.
The chinampas still worked produce about 40,000 tons a year, in beds sitting in the water that irrigates them. Running cost near zero.
Cities budget to build. Rarely to maintain.
#FoodSystems #UrbanAgriculture Same grid. Same wires.
PJM capacity cleared at $28.92 per MW-day for delivery year 2024/25 and $329.17 for 2026/27.
PJM says data centers drive most of the new load. Its own board now says existing customers should not carry that cost.
#EnergyPolicy #LocalEconomy It's about the familiar argument: "Humans evolved to eat meat." Maybe. Maybe not. Our ancestors weren't trying to maximize healthspan. They were trying not to starve. Different objective. Different world. (Article in the comments.) #FoodAsMedicine #Healthspan $5 billion was promised to the Philadelphia shipyard. The major facilities were never built.
Hanwha has now bid more than $1 billion for an Alabama yard that's ready to run.
Ready-to-run industrial land isn't built by a company. A region keeps it.
#Philadelphia #LocalEconomy Four companies sell about half the world's seed.
A nonprofit in Iowa keeps 20,000 open-pollinated varieties on 890 acres, and has backed them up at Svalbard every year since 2008.
Seed is the most upstream part of any food system.
#FoodSystems #LocalEconomy I got my copies...yes, COPIES! I'm proud to support the incredible folks behind Queer Soup Night. I've attended their events in Philadelphia and New York City. If you haven't pre-ordered Queer Soup Night: The Cookbook yet...what's taking you so long? #QueerSoupNight #Community 1,000+ Philly storefronts reimbursed. Up to $30K each. More than a quarter are food and beverage operators. City raised the cap in 2026.
Hand-to-hand economic development. Doesn't look like policy.
#Philadelphia #PhillyBusiness #LocalEconomy A Philly oil refinery is becoming a cancer-treatment factory.
$450M. 225 permanent jobs. Actinium-225 production on the old PES site in South Philly.
Adaptive reuse as real economic infrastructure.
#Philadelphia #LocalEconomy #PhillyBusiness A$2.5bn in phosphate revenues. $500k per person for a population of 4,000. The British Phosphate Commissioners, a UK-Australia-New Zealand government board, mined roughly 80% of the island. That wealth couldn't buy back a food supply. #FoodSystems #FoodInfrastructure #FoodPolicy After five years, this is the last Sweet Juice Fest.
Saturday August 22, the Farm at Awbury Arboretum, Germantown. Music 3 to 9.
Sliding scale from $10. The money goes to the artists.
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#Philadelphia #Germantown 403 lives a year. That's the Lancet's estimate for what Philadelphia's canopy gap costs.
Barcelona built corridors. Measured them. Temps down 5 degrees C. Then the next mayor scaled it back.
Good results, wavering will. Sound familiar? #Philadelphia #UrbanForestry #ClimateResilience 55.6% of US managed bee colonies died in 2024-25. Varroa mites did it, not data centers. But data centers consumed 17B gallons for cooling in 2023 and convert farmland that rarely returns. Meta, Microsoft, Google already have the fix. Build it right. #AI #Pollinators #FoodSystems 1,947 cases. Nine states. One lettuce supplier.
Berlin rooftop farm: 23 days roof to shelf. CDC traced them to Taylor Farms de Mexico. Took weeks.
REWE knew before anyone asked. The chain took weeks. (Source: REWE Group; CDC) #FoodSystems #FoodPolicy #FoodInfrastructure 10:30 PM on a Tuesday. Friend in from Chicago. We went looking for a late drink and a bite. Nothing was open. Visitors don't experience Philly at 7 PM. They experience it at 10:30 on a Tuesday when they're looking. The nighttime economy is an economy. #Philadelphia #NighttimeEconomy #Philly 12 of 14 studies found vegetable intake went up with school gardens. The catch: it only works with nutrition education too.
Philadelphia just lost its 20-year nutrition education program.
#FoodSystems #Philadelphia #FoodInsecurity HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT'S HAPPENING AT SOUTH?
Kim Pinder-Garner's tribute to the incomparable Phyllis Hyman. Gerald Veasley's Leo Birthday Bash. And that's just the beginning.
Browse the full calendar: www.SOUTHJazzKitchen.com #SOUTHJazz #LiveMusic #PhiladelphiaJazz Paris turned City Hall's forecourt into a forest. 20,000 plants. 150 trees. The Ile-de-France region's nitrogen dioxide dropped 50% since 2005. America is still adding lanes. #UrbanPlanning #Cities California's food-recovery mandate worked. The debate's over.
1.08B meals recovered, 231,766 tons in 2024, per CalRecycle May 2026.
75% of CA food banks say they'll run out of funding in 2 years.
A mandate is only half a policy.
#FoodPolicy #FoodSystems #Philadelphia 1 in 5 American kids has obesity. Japan's rate is a fifth as high.
Japan made school lunch a legal institution in 1954. America made it a purchasing contract. A local farmer trying to supply those kitchens needs $1-5M in liability insurance just to apply.
#FoodSystems #SchoolFood #FoodPolicy Philadelphia doesn't build itself.
That's why organizations like the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia matter.
Tickets for the 4th Annual PAGE Real Estate & Construction Summit have officially gone on sale.
#PAGE #Philadelphia #EconomicDevelopment 36% compliance. That's what a decade of voluntary food date-label pledges got. California's AB 660 made it law July 1. Now it's 100%. Twelve states have food-waste diversion policies. Pennsylvania has none. #FoodPolicy #FoodSystems #Philadelphia 824 apartments. Hahnemann University Hospital closed on North Broad in September 2019 and 2,500+ healthcare jobs left the neighborhood with it. Six point three years. Philadelphia still has no anchor-succession plan. #AnchorInstitutions #Philadelphia #LocalEconomy 9.5% of Philly firms say AI cut their headcount.
Only 4.8% say it added workers.
Philadelphia ranks 50th of 50 for upward mobility.
If AI erases the first rungs in a city already at the bottom, that's not a workforce trend. That's a civic emergency.
#Philadelphia #AI #WorkforceDevelopment Navy SEALs built ZeroEyes in Conshohocken, PA to detect guns on security cameras.
$10M in AI research. 100+ veteran hires in SE Pennsylvania over 24 months. Not a funding round. Their money, their region. (Source: Technical.ly)
#Philadelphia #WorkforceDevelopment #Veterans A family-owned company at the Philadelphia Navy Yard signed a 10-year, $2.5 billion submarine deal.
1,500 workers. Five times what they had at end of 2023. The federal government closed this shipyard once. #Philadelphia #LocalEconomy #WorkforceDevelopment April 2015. A town in the Basque Country put a fridge on a public sidewalk.
Budget: 5,000 euros. Innovation: a legal shield. Not the appliance.
Philadelphia has 17 community fridges now. We had 30+.
#FoodInfrastructure #Philadelphia Look inside a child's backpack. Seriously.
St. Christopher's Back-to-School Carnival. Friday, August 7. Sixteen years. Thousands of children. Countless lives impacted. That's what real community investment looks like.
#Philadelphia #BackToSchool #InvestInKids 
