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Near the end of a daylong work session Wednesday, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson faced a spirited challenge from four council members who urged him not to pursue new exemptions to the District’s Freedom of Information Act next week via…

Three finalists for the 2020 DC Teacher of the Year were announced today by Mayor Muriel Bowser's administration: Beth Barkley, English teacher at Cardozo Education Campus’ International Academy; Justin Lopez-Cardoze, seventh-grade life…

Now underway in NoMa, the fourth annual POW! WOW! DC International Mural Festival strives to bridge cultures, beautify the neighborhood, teach the community about public art and highlight the role that murals play in the city’s artistic…

As the Earth Day Network looks ahead to next year’s 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the event’s mission has remained a constant — "to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide." That same mantra planted a lifelong…

Right after the workday ended, dozens of local policymakers and community leaders convened in the Old Council Chambers at One Judiciary Square for a meeting convened by DC Attorney General Karl Racine. Snacking and socializing, they were…

After suspending campus composting without explanation last June, the city restored funding last month for the organics recycling component of the DCPS Recycles! Program. In response to a DC Council oversight hearing in February where…

The National Wildlife Federation (NWF), a nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization, recently ranked Washington among the top 10 cities in the U.S. recognized for “taking concrete steps to address” challenges urban areas…

A new effort seeks to secure official recognition for the historic significance of Barry Farm, a public housing complex in Southeast DC. The neighborhood's origins date to 1867, when the Freedman's Bureau established it as a place…

Though Krista Schlyer’s work as a conservation photographer and writer has taken her all over the country and into Mexico, in recent years she’s been focused on a landmark closer to home: the Anacostia River. Schlyer, who lives in Mount…

An Earth warrior lives among us. Nestled near some thick trees in the Kalorama Triangle neighborhood is the home of Rafe Pomerance and his wife, Lenore. “We’ve lived in the same house since 1975,” Rafe said. Forty-four years, three kids…

Years before becoming her hometown’s representative in Congress in 1991, DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton brought the expertise she had gained from her work in civil rights and employment law to the classroom as a professor at Georgetown…

On any given night, approximately 7,000 of our fellow residents — families as well as individuals — experience homelessness, according to DC’s 2018 Point in Time homelessness count. Some may see this as a welcome decrease from the prior…

Two years after introducing a new curriculum that uses the humanities to teach sixth-graders about climate change, DC’s Lowell School is looking to help others replicate the program. “I was looking for a topic in social studies that…

The Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital — which goes by the acronym DCEFF — celebrated its 27th year with last month’s impressive program of over 160 films that included two notable standouts by local filmmakers: Larry…

District residents and commuters may have access to more places to charge electric vehicles in a few years, if the DC Council adopts a new bill mandating additional charging infrastructure. The bill from Ward 3 Council member Mary…

DC green thumbs can skip the long waitlists for community garden plots and connect instead with underused growing spaces through Shared Roots, a city-run summer program. “There are people who want to garden. There are spaces that need…