“Cambridge Crude,” a gooey substance that powers the MIT Team’s new battery design | Image via web.mit.eduRecycling Spelled Out The Sustainable Packaging Coalition is currently working on a project to redesign recycling labels. The new labels will shun the current confusing number system, and instead favor labels with words. So far, four versions have been
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At the intersection of 11th and York streets sits a new farm run by North Philadelphia high school students and Temple University undergrads. The group has dubbed itself the Philadelphia Urban Creators (PUC), and is utilizing urban agriculture as a gateway to youth empowerment and community revitalization.
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One block off the grid may not be literally one block, or even technically off the grid—both are metaphors—but the program known acrostically as 1BOG is replacing an equivalent amount of power from traditional, dirty energy sources with renewable solar energy in the growing list of cities where it has rolled out its program. And
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Following the announcement late last year by the Philadelphia Eagles that Lincoln Financial Field would become the greenest stadium in the world—in part due to the 80 helical wind turbines to be installed on the rim of the stadium—the concept of harnessing wind power in an urban environment feels like less of a pipe dream.
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When GRID grand poobah Alex Mulcahy and I sat down to plot out this magazine’s editorial calendar back in the icy deep freeze that is Philadelphia February, we suspected that when the mercury climbed into the 90s, we’d be ready for a double dose of two of our favorite things: beer and bicycles.
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"You’re too cute to hate,” I told the hockey puck-sized black turtle as it clawed at me to get down and craned its neck to bite my hand. Biting is cute when the critter is round, helpless and has big, black eyes. Unfortunately, cute doesn’t count for much when you’re holding up development. The bog
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One of the upsides to container gardening is that crops are less likely to succumb to soil-borne illnesses. Unlike traditional farmers and gardeners, container gardeners have the option of starting with fresh, sterile soil each year. If last year’s crops lost the battle against blights, wilts or mildews, then it’s smart to ditch the dirt,
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Image via southphillyfoodcoop.orgOn Monday, June 6, the Steering Committee of the South Philly Food Co-op announced that the organization is now accepting applications and equity investments for new member-owners. This is a big move for the Co-op, and a critical step in their quest to open a community-owned grocery in the near future. The idea for the Co-op
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On July 9th, from 3 to 7 p.m., the Vendy Awards will roll into Philadelphia to determine, once and for all, which of our city’s street food vendors reigns supreme. This gastronomical event, held at the Piazza at Schmidt’s, will benefit The Food Trust, one of the city’s top-notch organizations seeking to ensure that all
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Unlikely Solar Advocates A group of autistic high school students from Bakersfield, Calif. experiment with solar power and find themselves taking their show on the road. Green Blog at New York Times Seeing is believing A study by liberal watchdog group Media Matters found that for the past year and a half opponents of
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