Stemming the Tide: How Philly Is Preparing for Floods in a Changing Climate

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

Join us for the next Academy Town Square, as WHYY’s Maiken Scott moderates a powerful conversation with city officials and community organizers working together to build neighborhood-level resilience plans to tackle urban flash flooding.

Learn how grassroots and institutional efforts are converging to protect communities like Germantown — now among the most vulnerable in the nation to urban flash flooding — from the growing impacts of climate change. The conversation will invite audiences into Philadelphia's historic watersheds to explore how the city's past informs its future and how stakeholders like you can help address a climate challenge over 150 years in the making.

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Schedule of Events:

6 p.m. Learn more about Flooding at Science Live

6:30 p.m. Panel discussion moderated by WHYY's Maiken Scott, featuring Abby Sullivan from the City of Philadelphia, Maura Jarvis from the US Water Alliance, and Marie-Monique Marthol of Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together; Introductory remarks and historical context by the Academy’s Ryan Strand Greenberg.

This program is presented in conjunction with Living Within the Watershed: Enduring Floods in Germantown, currently on view in the Academy's Spotlight Gallery.

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