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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Community/Environmental Justice/Farming/Food/gardening

Community garden advocates say it is within the city’s reach to save neighborhood spaces set up on abandoned, bank-liened land

Before the chic boutiques and overpriced cafés arrive, the first sign of gentrification is often a slew of ubiquitous posters stapled to telephone poles reading, “We Buy Houses.” One is more than likely to find these illegally-placed advertisements in low-income parts of the city where desperation for fast cash can outweigh the benefit of long-term

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January 31, 2022
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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Climate-Change/Community/Environment/Environmental Justice

The city’s new environmental commission will ask residents and communities to hold officials accountable

February is environmental Justice Month, a fitting time for Philadelphia to launch its Environmental Justice Advisory Commission. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin or income, with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws,

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January 31, 2022
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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Community/Jobs/Race and Equity

Nonprofit helps returning citizens beat the odds

Pennsylvania “locks up a higher percentage of its people than almost any democracy on earth,” states the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit in Northampton, Massachusetts, that works to end mass incarceration. In addition, more than 40,000 Philadelphians, disproportionately Black and Brown, come home each year from state and federal prisons, according to a January 31, 2017

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January 31, 2022
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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Art/Culture/Race and Equity/Water

Fairmount Water Works exhibit takes a look at how segregation reshaped African Americans’ relationship with water

In colonial Jamaica a group of enslaved women were bathing in the nude, washing clothes and likely gossiping on a riverbank when some traveling Englishmen spied them, according to Kevin Dawson, associate professor of history at the University of California, Merced, in his book “Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora.” Thrilled with

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January 31, 2022
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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Circular Economy/Community/Culture/Fashion/Shop Local

New Fishtown storefront will offer sustainable apparel and community workshops

Following the birth of her first son in 2018, Melanie Hasan experienced postpartum depression, a condition that affects millions of women each year. She turned to natural dyeing to find comfort. “Just dipping your hands into a really nice, lukewarm bath and absorbing the color of an onion skin, or just embracing the smell of

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January 31, 2022
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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Community/Editor's Notes/Environmental Justice/Farming/Food/gardening/Urban Nature

Editor’s Notes: Find the Money

There’s nothing like a great bookstore. At their best, they can provide both a mirror to who we are and expand the possibilities of who we can be. They are the hubs of the dreamers and visionaries. I share in the disappointment of many Philadelphians that Joseph Fox Bookshop will be closing after 71 years

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January 29, 2022
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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Climate-Change/Environment/Urban Nature

Philly’s cold-loving trees are dying out due to climate change. The city has a plan to replace them

Sometimes a forest can feel like a time machine. A walk in the quiet, shaded woods takes you back to a world before there were crowded streets and computer screens. But in early January, as I walked through the Haddington Woods section of Cobbs Creek, I took a trip to what might be our future.

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January 29, 2022
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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Climate-Change/Community/Water

Schoolyard doubles as green stormwater infrastructure at West Philly elementary

Recently I slid a few dozen times down the curvy slide at Henry C. Lea School, as demanded by my daughter Gilda, who slid on the adjacent straight slide. She is almost three years old and thus has a bottomless appetite for repetitive fun. Her older sister, Magnolia, is in the fourth grade at Lea.

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January 29, 2022
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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Community

Dear Lois, Why is it easier to clean when you have people to clean with?

It’s okay for our hands to be held. Many times when I’m unmotivated to do a project, I know that the main deterrent to getting started is simply that I don’t want to do it alone. My week is split in two: I have my three teenage children four nights a week and the other

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January 29, 2022
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#153 February 2022/All Topics/Circular Economy/Culture/Fashion/Recycling/Shop Local

Antique lover turned jeweler breathes fresh life into old treasures

Feast Jewelry’s Adrienne Manno doesn’t upcycle because it’s trendy. Or because she’s on some sustainability soapbox. Manno describes the reclaim-and-repurpose aspect of her jewelry making as an organic outgrowth of incorrigible collecting. On her used-to-be-frequent travels, Manno would spot and acquire a piece here, an element there—a 1980s faux horn belt at a London flea

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January 29, 2022
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🐝 “My goal is to have one [tiny market] in ev 🐝 “My goal is to have one [tiny market] in every borough of Philly,” says Yasmeen Brown of Bee's Tiny Market, "especially focusing on providing affordable access to healthy food in areas that are considered food deserts. And the stores will follow the same model: small, accessible corner stores. 🐝 

“We want it to be in the neighborhood,” she says. “That’s our niche.” She wants it to be a place that kids can come by themselves and feel safe, adding that they do not sell tobacco products.

“Every part of Philly should have that kind of safe place.”

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🏘️ Dear Lois, what does restoration mean to 🏘️ Dear Lois, what does restoration mean to you? 🏘️

Before restoring anything, it’s important to examine what can stay as-is and what needs to be repaired, replaced or given a good scrubbing. It’s also important to have a strong end-vision. It takes belief to bring something back to life. To build it up, to improve and strengthen it. If you can’t envision it, how can it come to fruition?

Read the Volta Way now on gridphilly.com - click our link in bio for the direct link!

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🌞 Grid Alive is *TODAY* at @bok_bar! 🌞 Jo 🌞 Grid Alive is *TODAY* at @bok_bar! 🌞 

Join us on this beautiful day at the @buildingbok for #GridAlive and the continuation of the 2030 Series where we look at the past, present and future of #GreenBuilding in Philadelphia. 

This monthly series is part of BOK’s SPARK Programming and will feature conversations with: @revolutionrecovery director of Sustainability Fern Gookin ( @fgookin ) and their Recycled Artist in Residency (RAIR / @rair_philly) director Billy Dufala ( @bdufala )!

We’ll also be speaking with Alon Abramson ( @hazelhaus ) of the @philaenergy on the #BuiltToLast Program + making renewable energy more equitable in Philly. 

This month we’re also excited to welcome @toddandgabi to regale us with music written while touring across Europe.  

Click our link in bio for tickets - as always we truly appreciate the support!

Full run of events is below:
🚪 Doors open at 5 PM
🎤 Show from 5:15pm-6:30pm
🥳 Afterparty from 6:30pm-6:50pm
Where: The BOK Bar 800 Mifflin St 8th Floor

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🌿 "A city in decay offers the naturalist unlimi 🌿 "A city in decay offers the naturalist unlimited opportunities, while a city on the rise takes them away. I have seen several of these spots developed into proper park spaces, opening them up to the general public in a way I can’t argue with, even if it takes away what felt like private spots. Solitude is an unjustifiable luxury in the urban outdoors, even if I still pursue it." 🌿

Click our link in bio to read @phillybillynature reflect on how the urban wilderness has changed and how he’s changed as well in our featured piece.

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This Wednesday! Join us at @bok_bar for Grid Alive This Wednesday! Join us at @bok_bar for Grid Alive: The 2030 Series Green Building Edition! 💚 

Featuring special guests:

🔸️@rair_philly Co-Founder and Director of Residencies @bdufala
🔸️@revolutionrecovery Director of Sustainability + RAIR Co-Founder @fgookin
🔸️@philaenergy Residential Program Director Alon Abramson @hazelhaus

🎶 Plus Music by @toddandgabi! 🎶 

With your hosts:
Grid Publisher Alex Mulcahy
Grid Director of Operations @nicesposito1

When:
This Wednesday May 18th
🚪 Doors open at 5 PM
🎤 Show from 5:15pm-6:30pm
🥳 Afterparty from 6:30pm-6:50pm

Where: The BOK Bar 800 Mifflin St 8th Floor Philadelphia @buildingbok

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Huge thanks to our lead sponsor @therounds.co (if you're not following them already please do!)

This monthly series is part of BOK’s #SPARK Programming - you can find more on Bok Bar's Spark series at bok-bar.com/events-1 

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🏢💚 When Scott Kelly and Jennifer Rezeli laun 🏢💚 When Scott Kelly and Jennifer Rezeli launched their Manayunk-based design firm @revisionarch in 2003 they were pioneers in green building design. The world has changed since then. 💚🏢

Previously Kelly felt he had to be “stealthy” about including sustainable elements in his architectural designs. These days he revels in the freedom to go deeper, exploring with clients how buildings can actively promote healthy environments, happier communities, social equity and accessible beauty.

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