The Double Trellis Food Initiative fights hunger in America’s poorest large city—and gives young people a path to employment.

Civil Eats

A champion of agroforestry, J. Russell Smith argued for the restoration of forests as key to sustainable agriculture in his seminal work Tree Crops.

JSTOR Daily

Banned by the federal government a century ago, black currants were cast to the fringes of U.S. agriculture. Agroforestry advocates and berry connoisseurs are urging a revival.

Ambrook Research

A groundbreaking research project has reimagined an entire unit with Scandinavian principles. Could it revolutionize U.S. prisons?

Philadelphia Magazine

Bullied by blight, the filbert has long failed to find a home on farms in the eastern U.S. After decades of research, its arrival is imminent.

Ambrook Research

A new wave of experimental therapy is enlisting the psychedelic drug to help couples in distress heal.

Nautilus Magazine

Meet the community of people in Philadelphia forging a more dignified path for the dying.

Philadelphia Magazine

Why does Garrett Hardin’s pessimistic fable of the "tragedy of the commons" haunt our collective imagination?

Distillations Magazine

As festivals celebrate the beloved native fruit, researchers explore its potential as a low-input, high-value crop for small farmers.

Civil Eats

A retrospective of Joan Brown explores the artist’s fascination with the everyday objects that surrounded her.

Carnegie Magazine

Diving’s interwoven history of exploration and exploitation can trap even a decorated naturalist like so many fish in a net.

Distillations Magazine

“There’s no place to put it that is not going to be an unbearable, intolerable burden for the people who live near it.”

Environmental Health News