Jan 1, 2025 · Toward A Sustainable Philadelphia. Sam Calisch has electrification bona fides. There’s the MIT engineering degree, the years spent in a lab tinkering with electromagnetic devices and his time on Capitol Hill as a scientist-turned-advocate, successfully campaigning for the inclusion of historic climate measures in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.

2 days ago · Philadelphia is facing a silent crisis: the rapid loss of its urban tree canopy. Over the past decade, we’ve lost at least 7% of our trees—shade-giving, air-cleaning, life-enhancing sentinels that shape the character of our city. The benefits of trees are indisputable. They cool our neighborhoods, lowering summertime heat indexes by as much as 22 degrees. They beautify our streets, attract ...

6 days ago · Nearly two years after the launch of the Philly Tree Plan, the City’s ambitious effort to reverse decades of urban canopy loss is still in its infancy. A $12 million U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grant represents a significant step forward, but community advocates and public health leaders worry that progress isn’t moving quickly enough. With the Philly Tree Coalition beginning to ...

Featured Jan 19, 2022 A band of intertwined, small businesses and local makers are what’s kept South Philly yarn shop in business for 17 years Jan 19, 2022 Read More → Jan 19, 2022 Jan 12, 2022 Sustainability, through love for the earth and the people on it, remains a strong intention behind the design and drive of this Black, Indigenous, and woman-owned home floral studio Jan 12, …

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Grid is a free, monthly print publication focused on sustainability issues and initiatives in the Greater Philadelphia area. Grid was born out of a potent combination of inspiration and frustration.With enthusiasm fueled by reading the growing library of books about sustainability, we looked at the current media and found it lacking.

Jan 1, 2025 · Home solar isn’t essential to home electrification, but for those with the financial means, it offers environmental and budgetary benefits, says Cora Wyent, senior director of research at the electrification nonprofit Rewiring America. “We’re trying to switch our whole grid to renewable electricity, and anywhere we can convert to …

6 days ago · Mayor Cherelle Parker leads Philadelphia at a key point in the fight against climate change. By 2030 — that is, in a mere five years — the City hopes to have slashed municipal emissions in half and power municipal buildings entirely with renewable energy. If things go according to current sustainability plans, a Philadelphia whose buildings, energy, transportation and waste sectors ...

6 days ago · In the summer of 2023, farmers and gardeners in Philadelphia had good reason to be optimistic. The City had just published its first urban agriculture plan, called “Growing from the Root,” which offered a 10-year road map for building a thriving local food system and securing land for farmers and gardeners.And in June of that year the City took what appeared to be a major step toward those ...

Oct 14, 2024 · As the 13 weeks of Mayor Parker’s block clean-up plan came to an end and another is set to begin, I was incredibly disappointed with the Mayor’s press conference on the subject last month. She touted the impact of so many thousands of blocks cleaned with no real context as to how many needed to be cleaned or were missed, and then gave a rallying cry with only vague allusions as to what ...