Let’s Talk Hemp, October 2021
Judy Wicks: Bringing Local Strength to Pennsylvania Hemp
Judy Wicks, Pennsylvania author, businesswoman and fierce advocate of local economies, has turned her attention to hemp through her nonprofit All Together Now PA.
HempBuild Magazine, October 2021
Hempcrete Week: Judy Wicks Brings Local Power to PA
Judy Wicks, Pennsylvania author, businesswoman and fierce advocate of local economies, has turned her attention to hemp through her nonprofit All Together Now PA.
Hemp’s reintroduction as a new rotational crop in the United States fits well with the organization’s mission to unite rural and urban communities and build “resilient restorative local economies that produce basic needs locally,” Wicks told HempBuild Magazine. Read more… hempbuildmag.com
The Philadelphia Citizen, December 2020
Guest Commentary: How Self-reliance can unite us
Philly’s legendary restaurateur/entrepreneur/community activist proposes a timely solution for our (repairable) political divide.
The 2020 election has left us a deeply divided nation. But politics did not cause this rural-urban division, and the wound will not be healed by political debates over which party will take better care of us. I believe we must learn to care for each other.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 2019
Women of weed rise high in Philly
These women entrepreneurs have stormed the cannabis industry, once the exclusive realm of men. And they have the moxie and talent to help build it from the ground up. Read more… inquirer.com
Generocity, April 2018
Local food and civil disobedience: Judy Wicks’ journey to a completely sustainable lifestyle.
WHYY's April episode of "Friday Arts" details the Circle of Aunts and Uncles, Sustainable Business Network and White Dog Café founder's quest to build a holistic local society — plus, her most recent arrest.
WHYY’s April episode of “Friday Arts” featuring sustainability pioneer Judy Wicks was meant to be like any other: The culture-focused show usually highlights three different arts-related stories focused on the Philadelphia area.
But soon after producer Monica Rogozinski began her interview with Wicks — and with Earth Day soon approaching — she felt a special edition of “Friday Arts” that focused entirely on Wicks’ personal farm-to-table ethos and sustainable lifestyle seemed more fitting.
And thus, “Judy Wicks: The Me to We Story” story was born.
EcoWatch, January 2017
Standing Rock: Where Love Prevails
By Judy Wicks
A thousand-year-old Lakota prophecy tells of a Black Snake that would one day rise from the deep and move across the land bringing destruction and great sorrow. The Sioux believe that the Black Snake has arrived in the form of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the most powerful economic and political force in the world—the fossil fuel industry.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 2016
Philly restaurateur Judy Wicks to serve Thanksgiving dinner to Standing Rock protesters
CLEM MURRAY / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Artist Lou Ann Merkle (left) and Judy Wicks, late of the famed White Dog Cafe, hold a banner Merkle painted that they will be taking out to Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota to stand in support of those protesting the pipeline. Wicks has arranged donations to feed 2000 people a Thanksgiving dinner. The word Wopila means Thanks in Lokato language. Photo taken November 21, 2016. READ MORE - PHILLY.COM
Philly.com, October 2016
On the Center City house tour: Judy Wicks' solar abode
Judy Wicks is studying her cellphone, checking the app that tracks the amount of electricity her solar panels are generating versus consumption.
She coordinates her activities based on what the graphs on the phone app show her.
"I cook when the sun is at its highest point," Wicks said, as a cloud moved in front of the main source of energy for her house in the city's Fitler Square neighborhood. Ditto using hot water for showers, dishwashing, and laundry.
Since March, rooftop solar panels have been generating enough electricity to keep her Peco Energy Co. bills down to about $7 a month, Wicks said. Read more... philly.com
Generocity, February 2016
Interview with Judy Wicks/GenerocityWhite Dog Cafe and Sustainable Business Network founder
Judy Wicks has started a network of funders for low-income entrepreneurs called the Circle of Aunts and Uncles.
Once you’ve been dubbed Philadelphia’s “Founding Mother of Sustainability,” it would make sense for you to help foster the growth of young up-and-comers. That’s exactly what White Dog Cafe and Sustainable Business Network founder Judy Wicks is trying to do now. Read more... generosity.org
Huffpost, January 6, 2014
Judy Wicks Threatens to Give Business a Good Name
I was recently invited into the cozy Philadelphia row home of one of the great entrepreneurial minds and hearts of my generation. By almost any measure, Judy Wicks could be perceived as a progressive, aging (sorry Judy) hippie, clinging to her 60s values, bent on saving the world from the ravages of modern capitalist/corporate culture. Read More...huffpost.com
Philadelphia Magazine, March 2013
Q&A: White Dog Cafe’s Judy Wicks
On her new book, her favorite Philly restaurants, and why she used to think that profit was a dirty word. Read More... phillymag.com