Nutter Butter: How Green Are Philadelphia’s Dollars?
April 30, 2008
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)
Philadelphia Real Estate for the “New Urban Mom?”
August 29, 2007
We at Remax City Space are proud to be joining forces with some of Philadelphia’s most innovative developers of “Green Housing.”
As such we’re always looking for equally interesting and innovative places to promote these projects. While browsing for a few places to plug “High Street,” Home(scale)’s exciting new project, we stumbled upon NewUrbanMom.com.
The site describes “New Urban Moms” as likely to choose
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- To live in a community that supports employment close to home or entrepreneurship.
- To live a “Green Lifestyle” and appreciate a community that makes living “Green” possible.
- To live in a community that celebrates culture, social interaction and activities that build and enhance family and community life. “
We got the sense that High Street might be well suited to the lifestyle of the “New Urban Mom” and therefore chose to shamelessly plug both entities here.
High Street is about as Green as Philadelphia Real Estate comes and the Jinogi (Just North of Girard) location works nicely as one of the many current launchpads of Philadelphia’s own “New Urban” movement….
If you have a minute, please check out “New Urban Mom,” and if you haven’t had a taste of High Street yet, you’re in for a pleasant surprise. You can get floorplans and see the awesome renderings of the project at PhiladelphiaGreenHomes.com.
