Letting Go of Sentimental Items by Joshua Fields Millburn My mother died in 2009. She lived a thousand miles away, and it was my responsibility to vacate her apartment in Florida. It was a small, one-bedroom place, but it was packed wall-to-wall with her belongings. Mom had great taste (she could have been an interior
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Krista Pleger enjoys her clutter-free apartment. A table in the Bella Vista apartment of Susan Corcoran. The shared bathroom space of Art Museum resident Krista Pfleger. Krista’s sink is on the right. Aaron Bitler’s sparse sanctuary. The light-filled, West Philadelphia bedroom of Ayse Unver. Aaron Bitler’s closet of wardrobe essentials. Susan Corcoran’s living room furnishings.
MoreIllustration by Kathleen White Most electronic devices in your home consume very small amounts of energy per day. However, most homes have over 40 electronic devices, many of which are left plugged in and continue to consume energy even when turned off or left in standby mode. Adding together the individually small energy use of
MoreCool It, Philly by Marilyn Anthony If you want to stir things up, ask any group of Philly residents to name the coolest block in the city. They probably won’t know that in 2010, South Philly’s 1200 block of Wolf Street officially took home that title in a contest run by the Energy Coordinating Agency
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Illustration by Kathleen White It’s Electric by Hannah Waters A letter slides through my mail slot urging me to change my electricity provider. I groan. “Sign and return the form below to have 100% renewable sources supplied for the Waters home,” it says. “If you don’t switch, your power will still come from power plants
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Photo by Jeremy Blakeslee The Nuclear Option by Heather Shayne Blakeslee We’re not a major. We’re a minor,” says Chris Peters, 47, a nuclear scientist with the College of Engineering at Drexel University. He’s sitting in the unremarkable lab where his students will learn this year about nuclear science, as well as electrical and computer
MoreEnough is Enough by Heather Shayne Blakeslee I very briefly nannied for a couple on the upper West Side of Manhattan—let’s call them Sarah and John. I once listened to them argue in front of me, in French, over the welfare of a child’s hat that had been purchased in Paris. It was maybe eight
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Christine Knapp will head the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability during the Jim F. Kenney mayoral administration. Knapp has been a leader in Philadelphia’s sustainability community for over a decade; She led PennFuture’s Next Great City Campaign, headed Philadelphia’s Urban Sustainability Forum, and most recently served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Government Affairs
MoreSweet smells and subtle light will get you through winter’s dark nights by Anna Herman When I was seven, I had a revelation. I could have brownies on demand if I made them myself. Learning this simple skill gave me agency over my appetites and fueled a lifelong interest in figuring out how to make
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