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#125 October 2019

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2019 Philly Bike Expo: Fair Play

By Alexandra W. JonesCompeting for higher wages might be the biggest challenge facing female athletes. But, this elite women’s cycling team excels in spite of a gender pay gap.

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October 30, 2019
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#125 October 2019/All Topics/Circular Economy/Feminism

Dear Lois: How can we bring the change we want to see in the world into our domestic lives?

By Lois VoltaDear Lois: How can we bring the change we want to see in the world into our domestic lives?

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October 28, 2019
3 mins read
#125 October 2019/All Topics/Environment/gardening/Urban Nature

Urban Naturalist: A Lot of Potential

By Bernard BrownLocal environmental educator builds wildlife oasis in Fishtown.

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October 22, 2019
2 mins read
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Bike Talk: The Silent Majority

By Randy LobassoThreats fly at South Philadelphia meeting to discuss bike lane changes.

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October 15, 2019
2 mins read
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Black History: Black Girl Magic

By Constance Garcia-Barrio21st Century youth share their passions, dreams and insights.

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October 15, 2019
4 mins read
#125 October 2019/All Topics

An Introduction to Soil Generation

By Sonia GaliberLand history, insecurity, and why we fight for threatened garden.

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October 15, 2019
2 mins read
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Energy: Are you Ready for 100% Renewable Energy?

By Meenal RavalMany municipalities in Southeastern Pennsylvania have committed to transitioning.

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October 15, 2019
2 mins read
#125 October 2019/All Topics/Bicycling/Editor's Notes/transportation

Editor’s Notes: On the Road, Yield to Everyone

By Alex MulcahyIt takes 5 minutes and 19 seconds for my seven-year-old son and I to bike to his school. At least that’s how long it took the other day when we timed it. I suspect it was a little faster than past rides because we rode on the street.

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October 15, 2019
2 mins read
#125 October 2019/All Topics

Co-Ops Mean Community

By Jon RoesserCooperative businesses foster human connection in an increasingly isolated world.

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October 8, 2019
2 mins read
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Biking with Kids

By Claire Marie PorterBright clothing, big signs and a sense of what’s safe guide these car-free families.

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October 3, 2019
8 mins read

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👉 The FDR Park Master Plan needs reconsidering 👉 The FDR Park Master Plan needs reconsidering 🌲 Grid has been hearing a lot lately about FDR Park. After our series of articles on the development of the Cobbs Creek golf courses, Philadelphians concerned about the fate of the South Philly Meadows got in touch to defend the park’s former fairways against a plan to develop the beloved greenspace into a complex of wetlands, sports facilities and other park amenities. ICYMI - Check out last month's cover story on Gridphilly.com #FDR #fdrparkmasterplan #Fdrpark #ParksAndRecreation #phillyparks #philadelphiaparks
⚠️ Warning: Graphic Language ⚠️ Proteste ⚠️ Warning: Graphic Language ⚠️ Protesters took their frustrations out on City Hall tonight after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood earlier in the day. Out of respect for (and at the request of) those assembled and speaking this evening, Grid has opted not to post any pictures displaying faces or other identifying features. As of 10pm, there were still several hundred demonstrators gathered on the North side of City Hall. #PhillyProtest #Protest #ProtestPhilly #PhiladelphiaProtest #RoeVWade #RoeVsWade
➡️ To: Mayor James Kenney, PP&R Commissioner K ➡️ To: Mayor James Kenney, PP&R Commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell, and members of City Council: While we are heartened by the City’s commitment to improving South Philly’s FDR Park — a highly valued green space where there is otherwise so little — a review of the Park’s “Master Plan” has left us with some questions, some concerns, and some feelings of outright opposition. The plan, completed in 2018, is in its own words, “a shared vision for our future.” We would ask, “whose future?” While the plan speaks to an extensive community engagement process, we have concerns about 1) the lack of transparency, 2) how community input is represented, and 3) how community needs have changed during/after a global pandemic.  Continue reading on Gridphilly.com @phillymayor @kottlovell @cityofphiladelphia #FDRPark #FDR #fdrparkmasterplan
🏞 Will We Save The Meadows That Saved Us?🌳 🏞 Will We Save The Meadows That Saved Us?🌳 "The #Meadows is “a place I can breathe again,” says Dominique Messihi, who co-runs a homeschooling pod there. “I didn’t know I needed that until I was [there].” And why is this encounter with wildness so utterly refreshing to us? Perhaps because we live in an age where we, for the most part, shape the earth processes that once shaped us. Before us, only a legion of volcanos or an asteroid colliding with the Earth could be the cause of a great extinction event. Now we are the asteroids. Rivers have been dammed, mountaintops leveled, marshes made into golf courses. In the Meadows, many of us feel, at last, this relinquishing of control, this psychic break, this abnegation of a colonizing will. Perhaps we feel the absence of — for lack of a better phrase — a master plan." Read our featured story at Gridphilly.com - your feedback is important to us! Please follow @savethemeadowsfdr for more info on how to help. #SaveTheMeadows #SaveTheMeadowsFDR #FDR #FDRPark #FDRMeadows #PhillyParks #ParksAndRecreation #PhiladelphiaParks #FDRPhilly
🎲 Flooding is the reason for the FDR Park maste 🎲 Flooding is the reason for the FDR Park master plan. It also could be its undoing. 🌊 "No one denies that FDR Park has been growing soggier over the years. Paths that once led walkers around the “lakes” now run through marshy ground at the edge of the water. Stormwater flows off of I-95 and the surface streets bounding the park. Water seeping up through the ground erodes road surfaces. Chronic flooding of the golf course led Philadelphia Parks & Recreation to close it in 2019." Continue reading on Gridphilly.com #FDE #Fdrpark #flooding #flood #floided #philly #philadelphia #climatechange #chronicflooding #floodplain #floodplains #environmetaladvocacy #delawarwriver #navyyard #navalyard #hollandercreek #fdrparkmasterplan #wetlands #FEMA #GlobalWarming #NOAA #cityflooding #flooddamage
🚆 Concerned about accelerating climate change, 🚆 Concerned about accelerating climate change, activists at the Clean Air Council are pushing Amtrak to reverse its switch from steam power to gas boilers 💨 Read about it in our featured piece on Gridphilly.com #steampower #gaspower #gasboiler #train #trains #amtrak #phillytransportation #phillytransit #masstransit #transportation #fossilfuels #climatechange
⚡Grid is working on an article about the city's ⚡Grid is working on an article about the city's need to switch from gas to electric and wants to hear from you!⚡ Drop us a note at:  news@gridphilly.com #gas #electric #gaspower #electricpower #gastoelectric #utilities #utility #power #naturalgas #electricity #article #news #stories #phillynews #phillyjournalism
➡️ An indigenous father reflects on raising a ➡️ An indigenous father reflects on raising a daughter in the outdoor and indoor “classrooms” that the city offers - read it on GRID 📖 "Fatherhood, for me, has been a course in community building and reclaiming collective cultural memory. As the son of a social worker and a Vietnam veteran (working with jazz musicians in Brooklyn post-war), I prayed for a daughter named Coltrane so that my parents would see that I understood the lessons that they taught through their faith-based work. I maintain a tradition of American men of the eastern woodlands, Appalachian American men just like the real-life cowboys of Fletcher Street. Faith leaders who farmed, worshiping and stewarding ‘food forests’ in the Appalachian Mountains before Iberian conquistadors arrived on horseback in the early 1500s, my elders chose peaceful movement over physical war to preserve the hearts, minds, and spirits of the people. When, in 1928, my great-grandmother passed away, to be followed by her husband two short years later, it was in response to aggressive developers, displacing us, yet again, to build the Belews Creek power plant in what is now Stokes County (NC)." Click our link in bio for the full piece from Javat Agni of @sallyblagg #Fatherhood #Fathers #Fathersday #AppalachianAmerican #biophilic #IndigenousCulture #IndigenousCommunity #IndigenousEducation #Family #FaithHealers #FaithBasedWork #FaithBasedHealing #HappyFathersDay #Coltrane #BlackWriters #blackWritersMuseum #SustainableFutures #DesignSolutions #SallyBlagg #SallyBlaggLLC #saura
🥳 Thursday June 30th it's @therounds.co 1st Bir 🥳 Thursday June 30th it's @therounds.co 1st Birthday Bash!! 🎂 An evening of live music, cocktails, giveaways, and networking in celebration of Philly's first zero-waste delivery service! Happening at The Garden @cherrystreetpier from 7-9pm They would love to see you there! 📣 Calling all #Rounds members, friends, and local partners to this chance to network, celebrate, and enjoy a round on The Rounds🍹 Visit their page for more info and to sign up via eventbrite - we'll see you there! #sustainability #sustainableliving #sustainabilityeducation #sustainablephilly #sustainablephiladelphia #phillyevents #eventsphilly

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