For all but the most dedicated locavores, facing January and February with little more on the plate than root vegetables and storage crops can be daunting. “They get to the point where they can’t face another turnip,” says Adam Gordon, co-founder of Winter Sun Farms Greater Philadelphia. “So they pop down to a conventional grocery
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein (Evolver Editions, 496 pp., paperback: $22.95, Online: Free, July 2011)
With the holiday season rapidly approaching, Americans will take to the roads, rails and air in droves. The average holiday traveler’s trip is 275 miles during December, and the number of long-distance trips taken during the Christmas/New Year’s holiday increases by 23 percent, and 91 percent are made by personal vehicles. The remaining holiday travelers
The Resource Exchange, the plucky upstart nonprofit (profiled in October’s GRID) focused on diverting valuable materials from the waste stream and making them available to artists, designers, builders and craftspeople, is hosting a holiday open house and fundraiser December 3. Thanks to a grant from PPL Energy Plus, the organization moved from the leaky warehouse
“I imagine a wild place where no one has ever been,” says Jose “Jojo” Agatep, founder and designer for Slug and the Squirrel. Virgin forests, hidden waterfalls, beaches and mountains are his inspiration. “Those are usually the things I imagine when I create them.”
Image via the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia Good news, cyclists, the 13th Street bike lane is here to stay! The pilot period is coming to an end, and the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities (MOTU) has decided to install a permanent lane within the next few weeks. The lane will stretch from
