Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, good dudeSince Spring has sprung, I've been having an intense love affair with my bicycle. Ours is a rekindled romance.
Five years ago, I biked across the country, becoming a confident, assured cyclist. (I guess that's what riding through Gary, Indiana, will do to you). Less than a month after my return,

On April 23, the Sustainable Business Network will host their fourth annual SustainaBall featuring over 300 local business leaders. This is the main fundraising event for the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia (SBN), an organization that cultivates socially and environmentally responsible commerce in the Philadelphia region. The event will feature local, organic food from Cosmic

Manatawna FarmA new commercial farming pilot-project from the Department of Parks and Recreation may mean that you don’t have to choose between your love of urban-dwelling and that itch you’ve had to dig, plant, grow and harvest. Here’s the scoop from the Department of Parks and Recreation’s Letter of Intent:
“The City of Philadelphia’s Department of Parks

Recently, I've been reading (and watching) a lot about fish, and how few of them are left. This has definitely thrown a wrench in my love for munching on marine life. When I recently read that a local restaurant was getting in a 600-lb. blue fin tuna from the Mediterranean, I wasn't hungry, I was aghast.
In

In our April issue, we discussed how Green in Chestnut Hill (aka GRINCH) is bringing the Northwest Philly neighborhood closer to its green goals. Grinch's Weird Waste Day (this Saturday, April 10) shows just how smart the group is at turning everyday clutter into a sustainable event.
 For just 40 cents per pound, neighborhood residents, businesses

Philly has been selected as only one of two U.S. cities—Chicago being the second—named for the UN-HABITAT 100 Cities Initiative. The initiative was created to develop world wide sharing, learning and networking that would help support sustainable urbanization. Although only ten cities have been named worldwide so far, so this honor shows that the sustainable

A chart in the Week in Review section of Sunday’s New York Times provided an interesting breakdown of the “greenness” of e-readers (electronics) vs. books (dead trees). It’s full of fun facts and illuminating details. Here’s a taste: If you order a book online and have it shipped 500 miles by air, that creates roughly

Passover is winding down, so I’m running out of relevancy for this post—something I’ve been meaning to put up for a few days now. Last week, the New York Times ran this story on growing your own horseradish. Though I occasionally have it on a sandwich or in cheese or mixed into mashed potatoes (great

Political races, like politics itself, often become a rushed, scattered jumble of words, promises and thumbs-ups. Commitments and innovative ideas come and go so quickly that they become a blur, and before we know it we're standing in a voting booth with no idea who the candidates are and what they stand for.
Environmentalism and sustainability

With its unending list of event, The Academy of Natural Sciences does a great job educating Philadelphia’s public on, well, the natural sciences. One of the academy’s greatest vehicles for carrying out this mission is its Town Square series, tagline: Science for Citizens. The Town Squares run in a variety of formats (lectures, debates, workshops, panels, etc.) all