Gov. Cuomo cites health risks; Pa. governor-elect opposes ban A gas well in Susquehanna County, PA. | Photos courtesy Delaware Riverkeeper Network In a major win for fracking opponents, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced that the state would ban high volume hydraulic fracturing, citing health risk concerns and the lack of studies
MoreNow that Thanksgiving has passed, we are in full holiday mode here at Grid magazine. And you’re invited to join us! We once again paired with the Sustainable Business Network to host our third annual December issue release and holiday party from 7 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 11 at the Reading Terminal Market.
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Philadelphia-based video producer and journalist Nicole Cotroneo Jolly and her husband produce the web-based food education series, “How Does it Grow?,” where they investigate where our food comes from, one crop at a time. The newest episode is all about cranberries, filmed in the New Jersey Pine Barrens using drones and underwater cameras, producing some of the
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This holiday season, ditch the pre-made treats and make something from the heart
Last winter, a friend gave me a jar of tomato jam. It was delicious, but the fact that it was an unexpected treat made it even sweeter. It served as a reminder of the particular joy of pressing something homemade into the hands
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A local project commemorates the loss of a beloved home in Mantua
Illustration by Kathleen White
If you’re like me and you live in Philadelphia, chances are you did not build your own home. So, what you call “your” kitchen or “your” bedroom was actually someone else’s kitchen and bedroom before you moved in. Imagine flipping through
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The Head & the Hand Press founder and Seeds of Discent author Nic Esposito has turned his tales about living on a small urban homestead in Kensington into his first work of nonfiction—Kensington Homestead, a collection of essays that center around growing food in a city. After finishing Seeds of Discent in 2011, which chronicles urban farming
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A new effort brings the mysterious mussel back to a Philadelphia waterway
The lack of mussels in the Tacony-Frankford Creek made the stream a desirable target for the reintroduction of the hardy Elliptio complanata species. | Photos by Brian Rademaekers
When you think of mussels in Philadelphia, your first thought might be of ordering moules-frites, Belgium’s signature
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An innovative project studies urban insect biodiversity
Isabelle Betancourt fished bugs out of Swann Fountain three times a week. | Photos by Jen Britton
"Most of the things I catch are drowning or dead,” says Isabelle Betancourt, curatorial assistant of Entomology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, as we stood next to Swann Fountain
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Venice Island's underground basin can temporarily store up to four million gallons of stormwater runoff. | Photos courtesy The Philadelphia Water Department
In the works for the better part of a decade, Venice Island opened in early October. The five-acre site is sandwiched between the Lock and Cotton Street bridges in Manayunk, and lies downhill of
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Library activist engages her community with an award-winning garden
Sheila Washington joined Friends of the Haddington Library after protesting to save it from closure in 2008. | Photo by Jared Gruenwald
On a typical Saturday morning, Sheila Washington can be found in the garden at the Haddington Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, watering flowers and
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