Good Conversations, Good Community, Good Water: Big SandBox Lands Knight Grant
April 20, 2015
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Public Affairs
Our green infrastructure projects are nothing without coordinated partnerships and a healthy dose of organic community input to help them take shape and grow. Now, thanks to a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Knight Cities Challenge grant*, The Big SandBox, one of our green school program partners, will have the means ($149,000 of it!) to make that happen at four Philadelphia schools. The Bi
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Earth Day Ribbon Cutting at Nebinger School
April 3, 2015
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Abby Sullivan
Join Mayor Michael Nutter, US EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin, Councilman Mark Squilla, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent, Dr. William R. Hite Jr., Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Executive Director Jennifer Adkins, Water Commissioner Howard Neukrug and Public Officials as we celebrate a national model for stormwater management and educational programming at George W.
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We Won! Green City, Clean Waters Wins the National APA Planning Excellence Award
March 31, 2015
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Abby Sullivan
Back in October we announced that Green City, Clean Waters was awarded the American Planning Association (APA) Pennsylvania Chapter’s Planning Excellence Award in Implementation. We are now thrilled to announce that we won the APA 2015 National Planning Excellence Award for Implementation! This award recognizes a project that demonstrates positive changes as a result of planning efforts. The award
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Webinar: Green Schoolyards and Citizen Science
March 26, 2015
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Matthew Fritch
The Philadelphia Water Department isn’t just interested in managing stormwater at schools—we’re leveraging opportunities to create outdoor classrooms that connect students to their environment. Join us on Monday, March 30 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. for Green City, Clean Waters: A Case Study for Greening Schoolyards in Philadelphia, a webinar presented by Toronto-based urban environmental organization Eve
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Learn About the Hidden Streams Beneath Our Feet on Monday, March 16
March 10, 2015
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Abby Sullivan
If you’re intersted in learning about our watershed or rivers (or history for that matter!), we highly recommend attending a talk by our very own historian, Adam Levine, this coming Monday, March 16 at National Mechanics (22 S. 3rd Street) at 6PM. The talk, titled “From Creek to Sewer: History of Topographical Change in Philadelphia,” is part of the Tapping Our Watershed science cafe series and wi
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Thanks to Our Cold Weather Heroes!
February 27, 2015
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Abby Sullivan
If you’ve been listening to the radio or watching TV news any morning over the last couple months, you’ve undoubtedly heard several reports about broken water mains all over the region. Though we’ve been able to dodge the snowfall that has made life very difficult in other cities, the extreme swings in temperature have done a number on our pipes.
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Yorktown Green Streets Project Coming Soon
January 29, 2015
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Public Affairs
Yorktown, a small residential neighborhood in North Philadelphia just south of Temple University (and once home to Gospel and Rock and Roll legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe!) will soon have one mile of bike lanes, two bus shelters, wider pedestrian islands, new ADA ramps and over 25 specially designed stormwater planters that will manage rainfall from the surrounding street. These upgrades are part of
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London Councillor Takes Note of Green City, Clean Waters
January 16, 2015
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Public Affairs
In a letter to the editor of The Economist (third one from the top), Councillor Harry Phibbs of London’s Hammersmith and Fulham Borough responds to their September article “London’s Sewers, Smelling Sweet” about the Thames Tideway Tunnel. He makes a point about using green, natural stormwater infrastructure solutions by referencing Philadelphia’s “better, cheaper alternative of green infrastructur
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PWD Opens Its First Biogas-to-Energy Facility
November 29, 2013
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Maggie Wood
Last Friday, City officials joined the Philadelphia Water Department and Ameresco as Mayor Nutter cut the ribbon to mark the official opening of PWD’s new biogas co-generation facility at the Northeast Water Pollution Control Plant.
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Greenbuild 2013!
November 26, 2013
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Public Affairs
Greenbuild, the biggest, greenest, and most sustainable convention made its way to Philadelphia this year.
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