Articles Written by Alisha Ebling

Guys! Everyone! It’s time again! It’s spring! Time to get used to more daylight, swap out the bulky sweaters for summer dresses, trade in those heavy boots for sandals, wipe the dust off of your juicer, and sign up for...

Philadelphia’s likely the city with the most to lose with climate change as we face a hotter, wetter city. Alisha Ebling looks to a current situation in Flint, Michigan to see how Philly can learn from another city’s mistakes.  As...

Something big happened in Paris recently. On December 12, following two weeks of negotiations, representatives from 196 nations agreed to adopt a landmark climate agreement more ambitious than anything like it in history. With scientists continuing to warn about the...

I can’t recall exactly, but I know there was a time when I was able to recognize Philadelphia water by its smell and taste. It took on a certain flavor in my rice, let off a slight odor while brewing...

Next edition of the hot new column: The Biking Chronicles: Ranking Our City   I have been a bicyclist in exactly three cities in my adult life: Philadelphia, Portland, OR, and Oxford, UK. Since Oxford is outside of the country...

Serves 2 Ingredients: Salad greens 6 red potatoes 10 spears of asparagus 2 medium sized carrots 2 TB olive oil ½ tsp Salt ½ tsp Pepper ½ cup of farro or barley 1 large / 2 small peaches or nectarines...

Eating healthy can be difficult. Every day, I come across a new blog telling me how I should be eating (with colorful, unattainably-perfect photos that looks nothing like the meals I make at 8:30 at night). Eating healthy while trying...

My name is Alisha and I’m a Philadelphia biker (two wheels, no motor). Let’s get one thing straight: I love biking in this city. But as any Philadelphia biker will tell you, it ain’t always easy. That’s why I”m debuting...