Read

The 2026 state of the climate report: challenges and opportunities (BioScience, October 14, 2026)

City circumambulation group celebrates ten years of walks (Grid Magazine, October 16, 2026)

With a Trifecta, Pennsylvania Democrats Would Pass Energy Reforms and Rein in Data Centers (Inside Climate News, October 20, 2026)

Autumn is here, and leaves are falling. What should Philadelphia residents do with them? (WHYY, October 21, 2026)

More than just rain: Understanding South Jersey’s flooding problem (South Jersey Climate News, October 22, 2026)

How will the EPA excavate 68,000 cubic yards of toxic material from a contaminated site in Port Richmond? (WHYY, October 22, 2026)

For Black voters, climate action means little without relief from rising costs (Grist, October 24, 2026)

Princeton University alumni use new technology to treat microplastics at Atlantic City wastewater plant (WHYY, October 25, 2026)

Halloween costumes have a spooky environmental impact. Swaps are a way to reduce waste and recycle (Philadelphia Inquirer, October 25, 2026)

Do

Analog Fall: Maps & Mapmaking
Monday, October 26 from 7 – 9 p.m.
Pen & Pencil Club, 1522 Latimer Street
Learn about paper maps, archival maps, and make a map of your own.

How to Survive Authoritarianism with Maria Kuznetsova and Dan Storyev
Tuesday, October 27 from 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Pen & Pencil Club, 1522 Latimer Street
Two Russian dissidents living in exile, Maria Kuznetsova and Dan Storyev, come to the Pen & Pencil Club for a talk about their new book, How to Survive Authoritarianism: A Russian’s Phrasebook for Everyday Life in America. In this edifying yet lighthearted glossary, two exiled dissidents share one hundred Russian idioms and turns of phrase. Together, they form the vocabulary we need to understand what’s really happening — and a roadmap to what might still lie ahead.

Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto Book Talk
Wednesday, October 28 from 5:30 – 7 p.m.
Wolf Humanities Center @ Stiteler Hall, 208 South 37th Street
Anarchitecture, a radical aesthetic practice of unmaking the built environment, staged a vigorous confrontation with urban renewal and gentrification projects in the 1970s. Pioneering gender and queer theorist Jack Halberstam will elaborate upon the main contributions of Anarchitecture After Everything: A Trans Manifesto (MIT Press, 2026), and suggest some areas for future research in relation to practices of unbuilding, undoing, and dismantling.

The Landscape of Memory
Thursday, October 29 from 6 – 8 p.m.
Public Trust, 4017 Walnut Street
The Landscape of Memory considers the image as a place where personal experience and collective history meet. Bringing together the perspectives of filmmaker and curator Maori Karmael Holmes and artists Lali Khalid and Sama Alshaibi, the program explores memory, migration, landscape, and the politics of looking through film, photography, and conversation.

Outdoors Online: Mysteries of Moss
Thursday, October 29 from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Natural Lands. Virtual.
Uncover the mysteries of moss—one of the most ancient organisms to exist on our planet. Not only has moss lived for millions of years, but it is a true indicator of ecosystem health.

AfroAsia Harvest Jawn
Thursday, October 29 from 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Greensgrow Farms, 2501 East Cumberland Street
Come through to celebrate harvest season with Star Apple Nursery and AfroAsia Bar! We will be offering non-alcoholic drinks made with farm-grown ingredients, and screening films about Black Southern land stewardship and Southeast Asian history in Philly.

Discover the Wissahickon: Spooky Wissahickon Walk
Saturday, October 31 from 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Historic Rittenhouse Town, 6035-6049 Wissahickon Ave
Join Trail Ambassadors Laura Bryan, Sabrina Arias, Afsana Oreen, Seya Fadullon, and Bailey Graf on a hike past some of the spookiest places in Wissahickon Valley Park, including the Kelpius Cave and Lover’s Leap.

Native Plant Prep Party
Monday, November 2 from 6:30 – 9 p.m.
DGS @ Sulimay’s Restaurant, 632 E Girard Avenue
We’re gearing up for the 2027 iteration of the Philly Native Plant Project, and we need YOUR HELP! We’ve got seeds, we’ve got stickers, we need YOUR hands to help us pack everything up.

View

Indigenous Irregularities: Anna Tsouhlarakis
Through December 5
Tyler School of Art and Architecture
“Indigenous Irregularities: Anna Tsouhlarakis,” is the second annual exhibition presenting works created by the Edgar Heap of Birds Family Artist-in-Residence at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Opening Aug. 25 at Temple Contemporary, the show features text collages and newly created sculptures by Tsouhlarakis.

New Talent: Six Rising Painters in Landscape & Abstraction
Through December 19
Bridgette Mayer Gallery
New Talent: Six Rising Painters Exploring Landscape & Abstraction brings together six emerging artists from Philadelphia and across the United States whose work reimagines contemporary painting through abstraction, landscape, color, and process.

Walking the Schuylkill
Through January 8
Fairmount Waterworks
Over time, the Schuylkill has served the city and its industry, first with a canal system and later with railroads and highways in the river’s flood plain. “Walking the Schuylkill” intends to capture and highlight those marks, illustrating the character of the modern Schuylkill River.

Transcendent: Landscapes of the Hudson River School
Delaware Art Museum, 2301 Kentmere Parkway Wilmington, DE
Through January 10
Emerging in the 1850s and reaching its apogee in the 1870s, the Hudson River School marked a high point in American landscape painting. The show examines the belief of period artists, writers, and theologians who viewed nature to be the primary locus of the divine.

Plan ahead 

SWWAG Workshop: Putting the Farm to Bed to Prepare Your Winter Garden
Wednesday, November 4 from 4:30 – 6 p.m.

Horizons: American Landscapes from Tradition to Tomorrow
Friday, November 6 from 6 – 8 p.m.

Community Planting at Cobbs Creek Park
Saturday, November 7 from 9 a.m. – noon

Beyond the Sesqui-Centennial: A History of FDR Park Walk & Talk with Thomas Keels
Saturday, November 7 from 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Daylight After Dark: Artists and Writers Showcase on Climate Change
Friday, November 20 from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m.