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Green Solutions To Storm Water Runoff

July 5, 2018 By EarthWise Leave a Comment

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Philadelphia, America’s fifth largest city, has struggled with storm water runoff problems since the days of Benjamin Franklin.  The city’s numerous streams that run into the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers were eventually covered with brick arches or cemented into underground sewers.  The network of underground-to-riverfront outfalls through increasingly-larger pipes is pretty much how all U.S. cities have been coping with storm water for over 200 years.

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The Delhi Air Pollution Crisis

December 12, 2017 By EarthWise Leave a Comment

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Delhi, the capital city of India, has always been a city bursting at the seams.  With over 19 million people, heavy industry, growing numbers of vehicles, and choking amounts of road dust, Delhi suffers from some of the worst air pollution in the world.  It is a situation the country has been struggling with for years.

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Waste In The Big Apple

August 4, 2016 By WAMC WEB

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New York City, the financial and cultural center as well as the largest city in the country, is known for a lot of things:  skyscrapers, shopping, and pizza immediately come to mind.  But we should add another thing to that list.  Trash.

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Green Steam

March 9, 2016 By WAMC WEB

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Many of the world’s biggest cities have miles of underground pipes built decades ago that provide district energy.   District energy systems use a central plant to produce steam, hot water or chilled water that is then piped underground to individual buildings for space heating, domestic hot water heating and air conditioning. As a result, individual buildings served by a district energy system don’t need their own boilers or furnaces, chillers or air conditioners.

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Street Trees Are Good For Us

September 11, 2015 By EarthWise

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Want to feel younger? Live on a street with more trees. That’s the finding of University of Chicago researchers who studied the impact of street trees on the real and perceived health of residents of Toronto, Canada.

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