This course will focus on plants and climate change globally and in the urban setting in the city of Philadelphia. We will explore challenges faced due to environmental and land use change, and access to green spaces. We will examine the role of plants in urban food, ancestral traditions, community, health & wellbeing, also ecosystems benefits such as reduction of heat islands. We will discuss biological, genetic, breeding as well as ecological solutions for enhancing plant resilience and system resilience for food security. Students will gain hands-on experience, engage in dialog with farm, garden and ecosystem practitioners, city officials and other support systems, NGOs and small businesses. Dialog will occur on visits to local gardens, farms, or parks with representatives and stakeholders or on campus with guest speakers and each other. Students will use storytelling to address ‘tensions’ identified, based on class experience and their own investigation, develop creative project ideas, educational materials, testimonials, or designs. Activities will intersect with to those of PlantARC.