Pass by the 800 block of tiny Percy Street near the Italian Market in South Philadelphia and you may not even notice that you’re in the presence of Philadelphia’s first street to be retrofitted with porous paving.
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This week, world leaders are gathered at the UN Conference of Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. And what are they talking about? Philadelphia, for one –
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Hey, that doesn’t look like the Schuylkill River. Pictured above is Rio de Janeiro, Philadelphia’s sister city in the U.S.-Brazil Joint Initiative on Urban Sustainability (JIUS).
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We’re at the halfway point of Greenworks—the plan that outlines how Philadelphia will become the greenest city in America by 2015—and giant steps have been taken toward sustainability.
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Philadelphia’s newest greenway—Gray’s Ferry Crescent, stretching from 34th Street to Wharton Street along the eastern bank of the Schulykill River—was dedicated earlier this week.
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An article in yesterday’s National Geographic daily news lauds the Philadelphia Water Department’s Green City, Clean Waters plan and makes some interesting points about Philly’s tradition of innovation in water management.
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OK, maybe not as exciting as that other Bond we’ve been watching since Dr. No came out in 1962, but this bond—along with several of its brothers and sisters—does just as much to keep us from suffering major disasters at the hands of diabolical enemies (in our case, rust, corrosion, wear, and damage).
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We use the phrase “cost of service utility” often to describe the financial structure of the Philadelphia Water Department.
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Last week, Mayor Nutter and city officials gathered with students and neighbors at William Dick Elementary School in North Philadelphia to kick off the Green 2015 Action Plan, an ambitious initiative to add 500 new acres of parkland.
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An editorial in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer both lauds the city’s plan to depave 500 acres of impervious surface and leaks the news that a groundbreaking ceremony will take place on Thursday to kick off the second phase of the Green 2015 action plan.
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