From Russia, With Love by Emily Kovach For a kid growing up in Soviet Russia in the 1980s, treats were nearly impossible to come by. “We didn’t have soda or desserts,” says Olga Sorzano, owner of Baba’s Brew. “But my great-grandmother brewed kombucha and always had it in the house. This was really fun for
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Photo by Christopher Leaman Get Growing by Matt Bevilacqua At the corner of Henry and West Hunting Park avenues in North Philadelphia, hidden behind an old warehouse building, sit several steaming piles of household waste. A faint earthy smell hangs in the air, but all the apple cores, coffee grounds and eggshells in sight will
MoreFracking Lawsuit Rules in Families’ FavorCabot Oil & Gas will have to pay more than $4.2 million to two Dimock Township couples after six jurors in federal court deemed that fracking operations contaminated the groundwater of their central Pennsylvania homes. According to an NPR StateImpact report, the company has already acquired more than 130 drilling
MoreIllustration by Kathleen White 1. Explore Fairmount ParkThere are beautiful spring ephemerals like rue anemone, bloodroot and twinleaf to be found, so get yourself a guidebook and take the family for a wildflower walk. 2. Reprogram your thermostatYou might not need your heating system at all anymore, but at the very least make the switch
MoreAwakening by Heather Shayne Blakeslee Out in the woods of Fairmount Park and across the eastern woodlands, spring ephemerals, those short-lived native flowers—twinleaf and columbine, bloodroot and trout lily—have been blooming. They come up on their own to announce the coming of spring to the few souls who might seek them out, and then go
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Are you a bike-riding, garden-growing, veggie-composting, design enthusiast who has a passion for print? Red Flag Media, a growing independent magazine publisher based in Philadelphia, PA, seeks a talented and versatile designer who will create page layouts for Grid, RFM’s award-winning, monthly sustainability magazine. The designer will also create a range of marketing materials,
MoreIllustration by Mike L. Perry A healthy home starts with getting rid of dirt, pollutants and mold by Anna Herman The typical shoe carries more bacteria than a toilet seat. If avoiding tracking unhealthy germs and pollutants into your home isn’t incentive enough to free your feet when you walk in the door, just think
MoreIllustration by Mike L. Perry Clean Slate by Anna Herman Every product you use in your home affects the quality of the air you breathe, the water quality downstream of your drain, and has had some manufacturing, packaging and distribution impact in communities of humans along the way. Switch some of your day-to-day cleaning supplies
MoreIllustration by Kathleen White Oil Change by Matt Bevilacqua For many people, excess cooking oil is something to pour down the drain after preparing a meal. But at Leigh Maida’s restaurants, all that greasy liquid has another destination: gas tanks, where it will power cars rather than block sewer pipes. “You have to do something
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