Yet another story about the behemoth Wal-Mart doing good stuff. This makes my brain feel confused. From The New York Times: In the United States, Wal-Mart will double the percentage of locally grown produce, to 9 percent, the company said. Wal-Mart defines local produce as that grown and sold in the same state. Still, the program
The Atlantic's Food Channel has a couple of interesting pieces this week.
First off, there's the story of Whip It, an Austin, TX, convenience store that has morphed into a locavore haven. Philadelphia has seen a real renaissance in local markets catering to conscientious customers—Green Aisle, Milk & Honey, Healthy Bites, Almanac—and it's interesting to read
A fever has gripped Red Flag Media. All of a sudden, we’re having the seven-year itch with our office space. Could it have been triggered by visiting the inspiring buildings profiled in Grid’s “Greenprint” insert (created in partnership with the Delaware Valley Green Building Council)? Absolutely.
Three Potato Four’s new retail space on Shurs Lane feels a bit like a macro version of their beautiful, deliberately-chosen salvaged items and antiques. A former wool mill that’s over 100 years old, the converted space (once used as a dye room), has taken on myriad other incarnations in the last few decades, including a
The JG Domestic menu has finally emerged from the secret vault where Jose Garces was storing it. (In a gilded lock box, obvs.) Included among descriptions of the all-domestically-sourced fare is a Farmers List featuring quite a few local notables, including Branch Creek Farm, Mill Creek Farm, Keswick Creamery and Griggstown Quail Farm. And how bout
As we told you in this month’s Grid, Night Kitchen Bakery has expanded. City Paper‘s Meal Ticket has pics of the new space, and a link to the new cafe menu. I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the Chestnut Hill sweet shop—legend has it that, as a young child, I threw
Swim FanThanks so much for the Dispatch you printed in the September issue of Grid (“The River Wild”). Five years ago, I lived for a while in Heidelberg, Germany, and was able to swim in natural waters pretty often.
Viridity Energy, local pioneers of smart grid technology (featured in Grid’s August Energy Issue), have announced an exciting partnership with SEPTA. The city’s trains already employ regenerative breaking, generating electricity when they come to a stop.
The Philadelphia Center for Architecture and the Ed Bacon Foundation have launched their Fifth Annual Ed Bacon Student Competition. This year’s theme—“Designing for the Fair of the Future”—asks local and international college students to transport themselves to the year 2026, designing a venue for the World’s Fair celebration, held on the occasion of America’s 250th
