Keep treadmills, tennis balls and tired sneakers out of the landfill! Fact: Approximately 20,000 tons of tennis balls end up in landfills every yearDonate: Goodwill accepts sporting goods (with the exception of bowling balls); visit goodwillnj.org to locate the donation center nearest you.
MoreIn the introduction to Hope Beneath Our Feet, editor Martin Keogh discusses the birth of his son, and how it led to some uncomfortable questions: If the environment is really as damaged and unfixable as facts and figures suggest, how do we go on? He looked to writers and activists from around the world for
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Grid contributor (and all-around favorite) Madame Fromage has just released the first episode of Cheese TV, a video project detailing her adventures in all things cheese. Watch and learn as this culture warrior tastes Bridgewater, brought back by a friend from Ann Arbor, MI. And don’t forget about Madame Fromage’s upcoming Yuletide Cheese Tasting at the Fair
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For 20 years, Urban Tree Connection has been on a crusade to provide low-income Philadelphians with access to affordable and nutritious food. In early October, the organization received $10,000 in grant money from the Lincoln Financial Foundation to support their Growing Healthy Initiative. Since 2006, the program has worked to repurpose the city’s many vacant
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The fat raccoon waddled down the sidewalk like he owned it, offering no indication that he viewed the human walking behind him as any threat at all. I followed slowly for a minute, enacting a surprising level of decorum—“After you! No, take your time!” Eventually, it slipped through the short fence around the triangular pocket
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If you’re making your holiday turkey selection based on personality, then a heritage breed Red Bourbon is probably the way to go. As we approached their enclosure at Griggstown Quail Farm in Princeton, NJ, the colorful birds moseyed on over to say hello. They gobble-gobbled, the males fluffed their feathers into that familiar crown (an
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I rode cross country, then crashed outI've had quite a few bike crashes in my life. A couple casual tip-overs due to clip-in pedal malfunction (or I-don't-need-to-clip-out hubris), one slide on a gritty road that left my thigh covered in road rash, a loss of balance on the Chestnut Street bridge that resulted in some
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Regarding to the critical policy decision we mentioned yesterday, the Senate has passed an overhaul of the country’s food safety system. Holla. Included in the Senate bill were exceptions for small producers who sell most of their products locally (animportant sticking point for sustainable food advocates who argued the burden of regulation would hurt those
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In anticipation of my Greensgrow Farm winter CSA share starting up this weekend, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on CSAs. TreeHugger has an interesting post up about a new computer program called Farmigo that was designed to help farmers manage their CSA programs in more efficient, streamlined and (hopefully) profitable way: Farmigo basically takes over
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We all know how much I love foraging, so I’ve been meaning to share this New York Times story on top chefs looking to the wild for new ingredients: Increasingly, in an era when truffles are farmed and Whole Foods sells fresh porcini, the ingredients that chefs seek are not the ones anyone can order;
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