{"id":346,"date":"2012-06-20T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/thats-progress-mayor-nutter-releases-greenworks-update-2012\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T10:39:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:39:43","slug":"thats-progress-mayor-nutter-releases-greenworks-update-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/thats-progress-mayor-nutter-releases-greenworks-update-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"That&rsquo;s Progress: Mayor Nutter Releases Greenworks Update for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/static\/gw2012greenroof.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;re at the halfway point of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phila.gov\/green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greenworks<\/a>\u2014the plan that outlines how Philadelphia will become the greenest city in America by 2015\u2014and giant steps have been taken toward sustainability. The Greenworks Philadelphia Update and 2012 Progress Report is now available (click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phila.gov\/green\/PDFs\/GW2012Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to download as a PDF) for your inspection. The report details how Philadelphia is conserving energy, reducing emissions, increasing tree coverage, providing access to recreation and healthy food and more. Certainly, <a href=\"http:\/\/phillywatersheds.org\/what_were_doing\/documents_and_data\/cso_long_term_control_plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Green City, Clean Waters<\/a> is part of the equation, too\u2014but since we spend about 364 days of the year touting our green stormwater management plan, here are some other highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A reduction of municipal energy use by 5%<\/li>\n<li>A more than tripled rate for curbside residential recycling<\/li>\n<li>Increased access to healthy, affordable food for more than 200,000 Philadelphians<\/li>\n<li>428 miles of bike lanes completed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In all, of the 167 initiatives put forth in Greenworks, 38 initiatives are complete, and 110 are currently underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re at the halfway point of Greenworks\u2014the plan that outlines how Philadelphia will become the greenest city in America by 2015\u2014and giant steps have been taken toward sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"custom_css":"","custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,44,518,51,75],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure","tag-green-city-clean-waters","tag-green-infrastructure","tag-greenworks","tag-infrastructure-investment","tag-project-update","wpautop"],"acf":{"suggested":null},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/phila.gov\/blog\/thats-progress-mayor-nutter-releases-greenworks-update-2012\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"That&rsquo;s Progress: Mayor Nutter Releases Greenworks Update for 2012","url":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/thats-progress-mayor-nutter-releases-greenworks-update-2012\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/thats-progress-mayor-nutter-releases-greenworks-update-2012\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Infrastructure","author":[],"creator":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"@PhillyH2O Blog","logo":""},"keywords":["green city\u201a clean waters","green infrastructure","greenworks","infrastructure investment","project update"],"dateCreated":"2012-06-20T17:15:00Z","datePublished":"2012-06-20T17:15:00Z","dateModified":"2023-01-10T15:39:43Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"That&rsquo;s Progress: Mayor Nutter Releases Greenworks Update for 2012\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/thats-progress-mayor-nutter-releases-greenworks-update-2012\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/water.phila.gov\\\/blog\\\/thats-progress-mayor-nutter-releases-greenworks-update-2012\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Infrastructure\",\"author\":[],\"creator\":[],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"@PhillyH2O Blog\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[\"green city\\u201a clean waters\",\"green infrastructure\",\"greenworks\",\"infrastructure investment\",\"project update\"],\"dateCreated\":\"2012-06-20T17:15:00Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-06-20T17:15:00Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-10T15:39:43Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/phila.gov\/p.js"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}