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EXTRA! EXTRA! On Friday, December 10, join Grid contributor Madame Fromage for the Yuletide Local Cheese Celebration. The event will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Fair Food Farmstand in Reading Terminal Market (after hours). Cost is $35; tickets can be purchased at the Farmstand. Seating is limited to 15. They will be serving all the

The Eagles are flying high—and not just the offense. I spent yesterday morning drafting a short story for next month’s Grid on the team’s stupendous renewable energy plans for Lincoln Financial Field, and now the New York Times has followed my lead: On Thursday, the Philadelphia Eagles announced perhaps the most ambitious green initiative yet: the installation of

The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article titled, “The Rise of the Lazy Locavore.” It covers the popularity of urban sharecropping, mostly along the West Coast and recently in Brooklyn. Landowners who lack a green thumb are partnering with gifted gardeners who don’t have backyard growing space, and would rather avoid community garden plots. Once

Flying Kite has a long feature on Gil Ortale, the man behind Market Day Canelé. We here at Grid love the things—crunchy on the outside, custardy on the inside—and featured the perfect pastries in our recent Holiday Gift Guide.    

Annie Leonard, the woman behind “The Story of Stuff” has a new video: “The Story of Electronics.” Watch and learn. Via New York Times‘ Green blog.

Thanks to Philly Brownstoner for the heads up on this story detailing planned renovations at City Hall’s Dilworth Plaza, currently one of city’s biggest missed opportunities. From The Architects Newspaper:  Designed by Urban Engineers with Kieran Timberlake and landscape architects Olin, the new plaza will displace an underutilized 1960s-era sunken space that does not easily

The New York Times has a interesting short feature on efforts by Walgreens in Chicago to address food deserts by stocking produce and fresh food. They’re calling them “food oases.”  A drugstore might not seem the obvious venue for solving a grocery-store problem, but Walgreens offered something useful: ubiquity. “That’s the exciting thing about Walgreens, they’re

Last week, the Redevelopment Authority (RDA) released a report on vacant land in Philadelphia, revealing the grand scope and cost of the city's vacant properties, and a new plan to manage the land in a more uniform manner.
Here are some key statistics from the report:

There are currently an estimated 40,000 vacant lots located in neighborhoods

I had a busy week, so it wasn't until the weekend that I was able to catch up on my stories. 30 Rock, which has really been on a roll lately, featured a hilarious—and pointed—storyline dealing with greenwashing (and smug liberal self-satisfaction). It all started with Liz Lemon, a new pair of jeans and a store

Check out Tenaya’s local holiday cheese picks in the latest GridThis coming weekend, Grid superstars Tenaya Darlington and Marisa McClellan are teaming up for a cheese tasting at Quince Fine Foods. Visit Madame Fromage for details, and be sure to check out their contributions to the new Holiday Issue.