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LOVE Your Parks
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsPhiladelphians love their parks! To prove it many will participate in LOVE Your Park Week May 12-19. A collaborative effort between Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, the Fairmount Park Conservancy and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, LOVE Your Park Week celebrates the beauty of our city’s parks.... -
The New New Market
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsAttention Locavores: there’s a new market coming to town! Bob Logue of Federal Donuts and Bodhi Coffee has organized the New Market to be held Friday nights this summer in Headhouse Square. The market harkens back to a time when skilled laborers, craftsman and entrepreneurs... -
A Carnival at Meadowbrook
Posted on April 26, 2012 | No CommentsOn Saturday, April 28 from 8am-4pm, Meadowbrook Farm invites you to a spring carnival. Located just outside Philadelphia in Abington Township, Meadowbrook has been tended to by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) since 2004. The grounds were bequeathed to PHS by J. Liddon Penncock, Jr; a... -
Filthadelphia No More
Posted on April 16, 2012 | No CommentsUnder unseasonably warm bright sunny skies, nearly 100 volunteers joined us at Jefferson Square Park and Sacks Playground on Saturday to help “keep up the sweep up.” Volunteers helped bag roughly 50 bags of trash, recycling and weeds collected from the park and playground. Discarded... -
Apply Pressure to Conserve Energy
Posted on April 3, 2012 | No CommentsThe statistics are overwhelming and the evidence is mounting, yet still many deny the peril facing our planet. How to make them care? Apply social pressure. And of course, there’s an app for that. Opower, a group merging behavioral science and data, has joined forces... -
No More Pig Pens
Posted on March 23, 2012 | No CommentsUnder pressure from animal rights activists and consumers, several major pork producers will phase out gestation crates in favor of open pens. The movement took hold when McDonald’s Corp. Announced that its pork suppliers will stop using gestation crates. Gestation crates are criticized because their... -
Mayoral Delight
Posted on March 2, 2012 | No CommentsCongratulations are in order for Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter. The American Architectural Foundation (AAF) and United States Conference of Mayors have awarded Mayor Nutter the Joseph P. Riley Jr. Award for Leadership in Urban Design. The award was presented last year—its inaugural year—to Chicago Mayor... -
Executive Surfers Retreat
Posted on February 23, 2012 | No CommentsDeparting from the typical landscape design that has brought them critical acclaim, Burke Brothers Landscape Contractors of Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania will be presenting Executive Surfers Retreat at the 2012 Philadelphia International Flower Show. Burke has designed the perfect retreat for a surfer coming off a long day... -
Philly Up on Love
Posted on February 10, 2012 | No CommentsValentine’s Day is on the horizon and since you live in the city of Brother Love, you might as well embrace it. Some suggestions you’re sure to love: Nothing says, “You’re sweet” like a cupcake. Order yours from Philadelphia’s only gluten-free, vegan, allergy-friendly, kosher bakery,... -
Mental Muffins
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsDeep inside the Twitter universe, I came across a woman who is vegan and wholly optimistic. Instead of focusing on all the things she can’t have, she turns her attention to all the things that she can. I hope to interview this guru of vegan...
