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Nutter Butter: How Green Are Philadelphia’s Dollars?

April 30, 2008 by Philadelphia's Remax City Space 

We have all heard that Mayor Michael Nutter wants Philadelphia to emerge in coming years as The Green City in America. If you are not on the band wagon yet, it’s time to jump aboard! One of the great aspects of this goal is that he actually has a plan, and a realistic one at that!


The Mayor wants to throw some $6 million in the next year, and $25 million over the next five years at recycling. Currently, as a city, we are at the low, low collection rate of 6%. With this added money in the budget, Nutter aims to start collecting on a weekly basis instead of every other week, and make the system more user friendly to participation. In addition, he wants to implement a city-wide litter prevention strategy based on the prior effort of Councilman Frank DiCicco.

Another effort will be directed at Fairmount Park. He wants to raise it’s budget, plant more trees, and really focus on making it an epicenter of the city, drawing more visitors and residents.
Finally, and here is the big Kahuna, Nutter is aiming to get an energy audit for the city, get all existing city buildings to qualify for LEED certification, and develop a Sustainable Building Code for all future new construction. Whether this will be just for city owned buildings are all new commercial buildings downtown is not know yet at this time. We do know the new Comcast Center, though, will be a fantastic sustainable model for all things to come!
He may be our superhero Mayor, but he knows that he cannot accomplish all aforementioned goals alone. He is now in the market to name a Director to a new Office of Sustainability and establish a Cabinet for this Director. So, if you know anyone…

-Rachel Lipton

(Get To Know Rachel A Little Better @ LiveGreenInPhilly.Com)


Rachel Lipton, Remax City Space

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