Grid Magazine

Since its inception in 2008, Grid has been a vital source of thoughtful commentary on pressing issues like climate change and social justice, highlighting Philadelphia's significant contributions on a national level. As the severe impacts of climate change increasingly affect our daily experiences, the role of independent journalism, such as that offered by Grid, has become more crucial than ever. In a bid to support a more sustainable Philadelphia, Grid has launched a new editorial initiative titled Sustainability Now: The Past, Present, and Future. This series, which runs from Earth Day 2022 to Earth Day 2023, focuses on a different sustainability sector each month, including transportation, farming, energy, and community. It reflects on the last 12 years of Grid's reporting in those areas while also looking forward to the next decade of tackling climate change in our city and beyond.

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Editor's Notes: Resisting Resignation

3 weeks ago | gridphilly.com | Bernard F. Brown

A few years ago a friend moved to the suburbs after decades in Philadelphia. Last week she came over for dinner, and she joked about a chicken bone she stepped over on the sidewalk on her way to our West Philly door. There’s nothing like chicken bones to let you know you’re back in the city. It was a small thing, but it hit me as a powerful statement about litter. Did someone toss that bone out of their car window, not caring that they were littering?
Philadelphia’s status as the nation’s poorest big city is a major cause of its gunfire

3 weeks ago | gridphilly.com | Mensah M. Dean

This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. It is the third story in a three-part series about the roots and realities of gun violence in Black America. You can read the first installments at thetrace.org. Sign up for The Trace newsletters here.
Local designer makes sustainable fashion more size inclusive through alterations, consulting and product development

3 weeks ago | gridphilly.com | Emily Kovach

After learning to sew in middle and high school and studying fashion design at Thomas Jefferson University, Itohan Asemota learned the ins and outs of apparel product development. Working with regional brands such as Grant Blvd, Asemota identified a growing need in this sector: independent fashion houses had trouble finding manufacturers that would work with them when they wanted a small run of items produced.
Area institution brings birding and citizen scientist groups together to strengthen community and build partnerships

3 weeks ago | gridphilly.com | Bernard F. Brown

The attendees came out for the living birds at the September 22 “Little Sit” held by the In Color Birding Club, the Feminist Bird Club, Philly Queer Birders, Disability Pride Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Center for Adapted Sports, but John Eskate showed up with dead birds in his bag. Eskate, the volunteer and civic engagement senior manager for The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, brought preserved bird specimens from the research collection.
Community-building art projects stitch together the personal, the political and the ecological

3 weeks ago | gridphilly.com | Emily Kovach

Shari Hersh trained as a painter in the 1970s and ’80s. At that time, classical fine arts emphasized personal practice: picture a solitary artist holed up with an easel in a studio. Through her work with Mural Arts Philadelphia and a years-long participation in workshops, readings and discussions that Hersh undertook with her best friend, Beth Enson, Hersh evolved her art to focus on socially-engaged and cross-disciplinary, collaborative projects.
Scholarship supports diversity in the bicycle custom frame industry

1 month ago | gridphilly.com | Alex Mulcahy

Bina Bilenky, the Philadelphia Bike Expo event director, believes deep down everyone is a cyclist. Since it launched in 2010, the expo has always taken an expansive view on who belongs in the cycling community. Are you a commuter who cycles a couple miles to work every day? A weekend fitness warrior training for your first 100-mile ride? A competitive cyclist seeking the latest innovations? A parent wishing for a leisurely ride with their children? All are welcome.
Publisher's Notes: Speak Up

1 month ago | gridphilly.com | Alex Mulcahy

Grid is a monthly magazine, so we are not equipped to report news. Sure, we occasionally cover some stories as they happen, but mostly we stay away from breaking stories — especially national news. However, the dramatic changes at the federal level deserve at least some commentary. I think just about every Trump-related story can fall into one of three buckets. First is the consolidation of power.
The Transportation Issue

1 month ago | gridphilly.com | Bernard F. Brown

Are we in drive or reverse? The truth is that sustainable technologies are nothing new. The chain-driven safety bicycle (safer than the precarious penny-farthing) grew popular in the late 1800s. Electric cars date back to the mid-1800s, and Philadelphia entered the EV history books towards the end of that century, when locals Henry G. Morris and Pedro G. Salom debuted their Electrobat, a battery-driven carriage intended to compete with horse-drawn taxis.
No Pennsylvania agency currently protects endangered insects and other terrestrial invertebrates. New legislation would fix the regulatory gap

1 month ago | gridphilly.com | Bernard F. Brown

There aren’t as many American bumble bees (Bombus pensylvanicus) as there used to be in the state the insect is named after. The big black and yellow bees are in decline, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature rating the species as vulnerable. Although the American bumble bee might need protection in Pennsylvania, there is currently no government agency able to coordinate its conservation, or that of any other land-dwelling invertebrate (animal without a backbone).
Editor's Notes: No Power, No Justice

2 months ago | gridphilly.com | Bernard F. Brown

I had never heard of the Philadelphia Art Commission back in 2022 when I tuned in to a Zoom meeting about plans to build a driving range at the Cobbs Creek Golf Course. When reporting on a public meeting of a City commission, it’s not uncommon to find yourself waiting impatiently through all the other proposals on the agenda ahead of the item you are there to cover. But in this case everything on the docket was absolutely fascinating to an environmental journalist like me.