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foodandwine.com South Philly’s Green Aisle Grocery has hit the big time. The locally-stocked store is featured in the February issue of Food & Wine, and it’s not just a blurb. The shop is highlighted in a three-page spread in the mag’s “what to cook next” section. It starts off with a brief bio. of the shop’s

The Papermill, a Kensington arts community, is competing for a $250,000 Pepsi Refresh Grant to improve the building and offer arts and music programs to neighborhood kids. They need your vote to win. Please consider their project in the above video and use the following voting instructions:

Last Thursday, the Postgreen team (the cover story of Grid's May 2010 issue) hosted an open house to show off their current project in Kensington, the Two Point Five Beta, as well as announce the upcoming reNewbold project that will apply their Kensington sensibility to the Newbold section of South Philly.
Located on what was a vacant

prometheusradio.orgWhen I first read Bill McKibben’s “Deep Economy,” I was a little embarrassed by the author’s lack of irony while describing, at length, the role of community radio in pushing sustainability forward. Radio? Really? The book was published in 2007, right after the release of the iPhone, and community radio seemed as antiquainted as print.

thegreenmarket.blogspot.comSnow and frigid temperatures aside, travel with me now to a school in the tropical climates, Bali to be exact. Wall-less classrooms are structured from bamboo poles, topped with elegant, thatched roofs and filled with bamboo furniture. 200 children from around the world attend this school, where they study english, math, science, the creative arts,

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A post on yesterday's Flying Kite led us to BlackGold Biofuels, an impressive company that specializes in converting sewer Fat, Oil, and Greases (FOG) into biodiesel.
This past summer, the company earned itself some buzz (see this New York Times article) by converting an 800-lb sculpture of Benjamin Franklin and the

As we shared in our January issue, PhillyCarShare has partnered with the American Cancer Society to launch PhillyPatientRide, a program providing cancer patients with free rides to treatment. This program relies on the participation of volunteers willing to dedicate just a few hours per month. To qualify as a volunteer driver you must: Possess a valid driver’s license. Apply

We like to share the benefits of recycling any way we can, but our rap skills are mediocre at best. Instead, we’ll leave the rhymes to Wafalme, a hip-hop group made up of eight kids from Nairobi, Kenya. The music video, “Trash is Cash” recently won a $5,000 prize in ViewChange.org’s online film contest under

In honor of the highly-anticipated January expiration of the PECO rate caps (hopefully, you’ve switched to CFLs by now), we're offering up the 411 on energy-related news.
(-) Turns out rate caps weren’t saving us much. The price of electricity in November was nearly a third more in the Philadelphia area than in the average American

Another reminder (thanks to philly.com) that green building is not tied to one neighborhood or organization in Philadelphia. Over the past couple years, a number of sleek, energy-efficient buildings have been constructed in unexpected spots outside of Center City. Here’s another: the Mercy Neighborhood Ministries of Philadelphia Inc.’s state of the art building in the