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This week, take some time to think about how much unnecessary paper we are using up each day. When you see your fifteenth movie of the Philadelphia Film Festival, don't pick up yet another copy of the film guide. Don't print out that third recipe for macaroni and cheese from your favorite food blog, complete with nine extra pages of reader comments. Don't print out the Juno screenplay and re-read again, shaking your head and wondering how that schlock won an Academy award. (Oh wait, maybe that's just me who is doing that). Don't subscribe to a printed publication that can be read online.

Don’t know about you, but when we think about driving in the city we start to get slight palpitations. Part of it could be that we’re used to walking and Septa; the thought of paying exorbitant amounts to park in UCity on a Friday night convinces us that the El isn’t so bad after all. Plus, there’s storage: when we were living on the outskirts of Center City a parking spot would have cost 2/3 of our rent. Don’t get us started on the exhaust fumes, particularly those from the ancient chariots some of us have to drive around in because after parking costs we can’t afford an upgrade. But there are times when having a car is a necessity, even in the city. You need one to escape the heat and exhaust for the cool ocean breeze in the summer for instance, or to do an IKEA run. And so a balance must be struck.

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If you haven't noticed, we love to get press releases at Phillyist because they make us feel really important. When we're riding the Blue Line around the city (y'know, just to meet people), we carry around these releases so that bored people reading Us Weekly or National Geographic Traveler will look at us and go, "Hey, that person has a press release. That person has become important all of a sudden."

National Geographic Traveler, the offshoot not to be confused with its big brother (you know, the one with the yellow border and the educational nudity), has declared Philadelphia its "Next Great City" in its October issue.

Matt at Philly Future pointed us to the Free Library of Philadelphia web site, which is now sporting a new look.