In a craft-beer-driven city like Philadelphia, it’s little wonder that some of the most popular holiday gifts begin with water, malt, hops and yeast. If you plan to give a home-fermented creation, start early, says Nick Less, co-owner of Philly Homebrew Outlet (1447 N. American St.). Most beer styles can be completed in about a
MoreNicole Jolly in a from "How Does It Grow?" episode one: Mushrooms.Most Americans probably couldn’t define “agricultural literacy” let alone recognize that they’re, well, agriculturally illiterate. Nicole and Mark Jolly, Philadelphia-based filmmakers and journalists, aim to fill that education gap with their one-of-a-kind film series “How Does It Grow?”
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Air pollution is an abstraction. We know it’s there and it affects our health, but if we could see it, what could change?
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Hosted by Grid publisher Alex Mulcahy and Nic Esposito founder of The Head & The Hand publishers, November's Grid Alive featured a wide range of topics, from construction waste to home energy efficiency. As doors opened at 6 p.m., guests were treated to a snack spread by Rolling Barrel Events and table exhibitions that included
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Story by Ruth Heil, photos by Neal Santos.
As the founder of Solar States, a South Kensington-based solar energy consulting and installation company, Micah Gold-Markel knows something about tapping underutilized potential. When he looked at Philadelphia’s public schools, he saw plenty of it, both on the unadorned rooftops, and in the classrooms underneath them.
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The Waste, Trash and Fuel session drew a crowd at last year's symposium. Photography Copyright ©2013 Steven L. Lubetkin All Rights Reserved — at Temple UniversityWhen Brad Molotsky sketched a program outline on a napkin one night over beers, he had no idea it would become the first NJ/PA Sustainability Symposium. The region's
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Corporate Interiors' Renewed Environments refurbishes, rejuvenates, reconfigures and remanufactures old office furnitureFifteen years ago, Janice Leone (WBE), Principal of Corporate Interiors, became aware of the many tons of workstation components being dumped directly into landfills as businesses purchased new office furniture. Envisioning an alternative that extended the life of office furniture and kept functional material
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Adjustable height workstations at Glaxo Smith Kline’s new office at the Philadelphia Navy YardBig players in the global workplace interior manufacturing game have the potential to create big waste. Not so for Haworth, a family-owned interior furnishings supplier known for a commitment to sustainability that has included a goal of achieving zero-waste-to-landfill (ZWTL) status globally,
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If knowledge is power, the City of Philadelphia is about to become super-powered. In June 2012, Philadelphia City Council enacted a law that requires owners of non-residential buildings of more than 50,000 square feet to track data on energy and water consumption and make those benchmarks publicly available.
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The Lighting Practice was responsible for the sculptural and environmental lighting of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.In 1981, when now husband-and-wife Rob and Helen Diemer graduated from Pennsylvania State University with degrees in architectural engineering, they were entering an industry that wasn’t all that concerned with energy conservation. But about a decade ago, things started to
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