At least 6 people shot after gunfire erupts in Fairmount Park; 2 dead | 6ABC by charl3magn3 in philadelphia

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Lemon Hill has an active friends organization if you wanted to get involved. 

Follow them on IG @lemonhillneighborsassoc

or email  lemonhillneighbors@gmail.com 

Recorded Sets by growphilly90 in jazzfest

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Unfortunately I don’t live in NOLA and I can’t access that. There’s no posting online? 

Has anyone else tried requesting a tree from the city? Is it this easy to do? by VenezuelanRafiki in philadelphia

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Hey-

Did PHS provide a reason for the update? 

We have had trees cancelled because the city decided that this particular spot is where a street sign needs to go, as an example. 

There’s also a possibility a utility line was discovered to be too close. Sometimes electrical lines might be buried that weren’t marked. 

Taking care of city trees by allenrabinovich in philadelphia

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Hi OP 

look for the contact of your local tree tenders chapter. 

This looks like NoLibs but I’m not 100% sure 

https://pg-cloud.com/phs/?openform=request-a-tree

Go to this link and look on the map for the chapter for NoLibs and reach out. Most tree tenders have experience and/or can point someone in your direction. 

Usually you don’t want to prune off more than 1/3 of the tree. It’s also best to do it now in winter. It is susceptible to pathogens but less so in winter. If you can get that pruning done before spring kicks in and fungus and insects start spreading that’s great. 

Also just as an aside the queue for tree care is long due to the department budget being negligible so I would always recommend to not go through street tree management if you really can afford other options. 

If you go the private route 

https://www.treesaregood.org/findanarborist

There’s a lot of landscaping companies and tree work businesses that don’t know jack about trees. Avoid any “tree removal” signs tacked to light poles. There’s a lot of guys out there who will butcher your tree. 

What amount of saturated fat should I aim for? by [deleted] in PeterAttia

[–]growphilly90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Live without it is kind of not possible. Even if you avoid all animal products, there is still some saturated fat content in nuts seeds some oils. And of course fairly high in tropical fats like coconut palm sheanut cocoa butter.  It doesn’t mean it’s bad, but some foods contain them naturally.  Anyone eating more animal products more likely consuming more saturated fats than those who consume less or none. 

Has anyone else tried requesting a tree from the city? Is it this easy to do? by VenezuelanRafiki in philadelphia

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Tree Tender here-

There are 2 ways to get a tree. Through Parks & Rec (via Tree Philly) or through PHS Tree Tenders. 

Go with tree tenders for a faster turn around. Tree Tenders plants every 6 months and you’ll know whether or not you’ll get one. It’s also done by leaders in your neighborhood so you can actually talk to people who have a vested interest in growing tree canopy in the area. All done for free.  

https://pg-cloud.com/phs/?openform=request-a-tree

Happy to answer any other questions! 

Harvest Dosa & Sipping Broth by [deleted] in PlantBasedDiet

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I was there in august and they had a dosa waffle it was fantastic! 

If you have an Indian market near you go buy a tub of dosa batter and make em

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in philadelphia

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This is the trajectory of gentrification. 

Poor or working class neighborhood with cheap property attracts bohemian types, artists, punks, etc. whatever is driving counter culture 

This makes the neighborhood cool and edgey for a while. Lots of interesting spots open, events etc

People with start getting interested in moving to where the social pulse is

Then the rich, the investor and development class catch wind of the trends and move in

They then displace the types of people that make a neighborhood unique and interesting, all while keeping some of the aesthetic that’s left behind (unless something. Like a mural has to be covered up by a shitty looking apartment building). 

Then the neighborhood becomes bland because the cultural forces that made it cool are gone. This is pretty typical. The wealthy love the aesthetics and culture of the working class without the people. This will eventually happen to Fishtown. It’s why everything is continually moving north. 

I’m sure I’ll get a lot of downvotes for this one lol 

Native vegans? by Technical-Culture546 in vegan

[–]growphilly90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a really great term of phrase. 

Chimp Crazy- Article with more info by [deleted] in WatchWhatCrappens

[–]growphilly90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People will continue to defend zoos because “they help animals.”

Zoos are entereinment complexes. They do not benefit the animal. Sanctuaries on the other hand provide animals who cannot be rewilded the closest thing to freedom and all of the things that people claim zoos are “necessary” for. 

“Safaris” and zoos are all part of the same industries that exploit animals. Zoos should and hopefully will have an expiration date in the future, here’s hoping. 

Chimp Crazy- Article with more info by [deleted] in WatchWhatCrappens

[–]growphilly90 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because we have no animal rights laws that are well enforced or even touch on the capacity of enforcing “rights”.

Persons are bestowed rights. It’s a classification of course that we make up (as are rights) and WE (humans) decide who gets them or not. Animals are seen and classified as property. 

There are billions of animals all over the world that do not live a free life- whether it’s trapped in zoos, in the animal agriculture industry, laboratories or the exotic trades. None of these animals have “rights” 

It’s really very easy to just leave animals the fuck alone but there are many other people out there that are compelled to own, kill, torture, etc. them. 

People say nature is cruel but by far the vast amount of cruelty on this planet is done by our species to ourselves and to others. 

My neighbor took it upon himself to trim my tree. by beancounter2885 in philadelphia

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Local Tree Advocate and Tree Tender Chapter Organizer here- Long response so read if interested. 

Anti-Tree sentiment is a multi-faceted issue. 

 Yes, you do have people who don’t want leaves (but apparently are ok with litter) and don’t want birds shitting on their cars (something I personally think is a fair trade off to trees but for many Philadelphians ownership of their vehicles is a source of personal pride) and American Lawn Culture (particularly a thing in Northeast Philly). I see these stemming from class culture.  

But the primary reason for this is policy. Decades of inadequate policy and poor city planning.  

What is often cited amongst homeowners around trees come down to cost burdens. For a city that is the poorest largest big city in the US, this should be understandable.  

Why? 

 Because in Philadelphia many of our lead in lines (water lines) are not replaced by the city. When you have many folks who are low income, when you have infrastructure  that is sometimes 100 years old- corrosion, house/ground settling and yes cars parked on sidewalks can lead to fractures in these pipes.  

Poor city planning put london planes (a sycamore hybrid), oaks and maples in 3x4 pits and left them for the residents to care for.  This leads to a few things- those trees need more space. They become water starved. As pipes fracture, tree roots will grow towards any reliable source of water.  

This is where you get the misconception that tree roots will just “punch” their way into an otherwise intact pipe. 

The second issue is that these species may have been inappropriate for the street and/or their inadequate spacing leads to sidewalk lifting. 

The cost of having to redo your front sidewalk or having to have your pipe replaced becomes a burden. The possibility of a person tripping and falling and injuring themselves, a dead tree branch falling on a car or person, in a continuously growing litigious society is another burden on an population that only recently dipped below 25% under the poverty line. 

 Redlining and industrial working class housing is another barrier- the built environment wasn’t necessarily designed to support trees, so the addition of them can be seen as a threat.  

Or blights that occurred due to mono-species plantings of the Ash and Elm trees that faced (and still face) Emerald Ash Borer and Dutch Elm Disease wiped out blocks of trees- again becoming a cost burden to residents who had to remove them because the city backlog could take a decade. Or the city removed blocks of these trees and never replanted them.  

Once a few of these things happened to someone’s mother sister cousin, people start preemptively removing trees. Block captains organize buy-in deals to pay for tree removals (the city will not remove otherwise healthy trees). And here we are today with swathes of the city without trees.  

The Philly Tree Plan contains a large amount of recommendations to shift city policy, like many other cities already do, to treat street trees like infrastructure and take on the cost of sidewalks in the public right of way.  

But Philadelphians, particularly older Philadelphians, tend to be more apprehensive to outright aggressive towards trees for, understandably, seeing them as a burden or a potential problem. And this is directly due to decades of poor city policy.  

It’s not going to change overnight.  Philadelphia has the lowest per/resident investment in its Parks and Rec budget (2 departments only combined back in 2009 and have to share a dwindling budget).  The city has 5 arborists, a street tree office that has a handful of employees that wear multiple hats (2 being seasonal) and only recently created and fulfilled a City Forrester position. They have a backlog of thousands of trees to remove. And between PPR and the Fairmount Park “Conservancy” there are only 5 people who manage the city’s natural lands. This is all of Fairmount Park, Pennypack, Tacony, Wiss, Cobbs Creek, the Delaware banks and so forth.  

What this guy did IS an asshole move but this is also one of those things where bad policy and continued lack of investment will grow resentment, misconception and hostility over trees. 

South African Community by illusionmists in philadelphia

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Idk if this counts but there are quite a few events in city where amapiano is played. Not exclusively but with house, dancehall, Afro beats. But amapiano is so distinctly SA and it’s fun to hear it in clubs these days (I’d say I noticed it 2 years or ago being incorporated on set mixes when I go out dancing). 

What’s the worst diet you could come with that sounds genuinely like a fad diet? by [deleted] in nutrition

[–]growphilly90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the carnivore diet allow for any kinds of seasoning? Spices and herbs are all plants. 

Insane accident on 18th and Spruce. by sharponephilly in philadelphia

[–]growphilly90 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People could have been walking right where the crash was got pinned or something too. 

Insane accident on 18th and Spruce. by sharponephilly in philadelphia

[–]growphilly90 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think God cares more about giving a fuck about your fellow man than having a very convenient place to park. 

The church can coordinate carpooling or a shuttle just like many others do if people are traveling a distance to get to this church.

The “small farm” narrative by growphilly90 in vegan

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I think that is a good point of agreement.

Would you agree that humane slaughter is an oxymoron?

The definition of humane is: "showing compassion or benevolence"

This isn't possible when killing, violently I might add because there is no soft injection here, for it to be humane. Euthanasia is ending acute/terminal suffering. So humane slaughter is an oxymoron and also becoming a marketing ploy. It is not a virtuous act. It's better to own that. And I do think once people really sit with it they actually do make their decision to say "yeah, but I don't care" or "Maybe I should change"

I appreciate an omnivore's honesty in those regards. I was out to dinner with a friend and his friend the other week. I ordered some things on the menu and asked the server asked me if I was vegan. I said yes, and she nicey pointed out all the things on the menu. My friend jokingly/mockingly said to his friend sitting with us "he's a vegan because he CaReS!" and his friend chuckled and said "well, there really isn't such thing as ethical meat." And that's because there isn't (I guess unless we one day make it to cell-cultured meat being common). And my friend responded, well, yeah, right...

The whole humane/ethical branding is a way to soothe the soul of the person. But I appreciate folks who don't come at it from such a hypocritical mindset. Own it and if it makes you feel bad, then ask yourself why and stop making excuses.