Greenworks Philadelphia

Have an opinion? The city is really trying to listen to its constituents. After releasing Powering Our Future in November, the Office of Sustainability (OOS) briefed the plan with 50 attendees yesterday at the Municipal Services Building. OOS released the Municipal...

Mayor Kenney (and the Philadelphia Office of Sustainability, OOS) released the newest version of Greenworks: A Vision for a Sustainable Philadelphia yesterday at a press conference and online. So how did Greenworks shape up after we chatted with OOS Director Christine...

This entry is from SBN’s The Good Economist August 2016 edition, published by Saleem Chapman. The Office of Sustainability Gives Preview of Greenworks 2.0 The environmental community converged upon the Innovation Lab inside the Municipal Services Building on August 9th...

When Mayor Nutter took office in 2008, he set two important goals: for Philadelphia to become the Greenest City in the USA and to reduce homicides by 30-50%. In 7 1/2 years, the city has reduced homicides by 37%. So how...

Get ready for more free trees! TreePhilly will provide five grants to community groups worth 50 trees and $500, a whopping $2000 value, used to host yard-tree giveaways in the winning organizations’ neighborhoods starting this fall. TreePhilly announced this new...