Philadelphia Gets a Porous Green Street
The 800 block of Percy Street is Philadelphia’s first porous street. The street allows water to be absorbed directly into the pavement and will reduce the amount of water directed to the storm sewers.
“ … potentially mitigate the impact of ice on city streets following winter storms. “ by allowing road salt to soak into the street and not get dumped into rivers and streams.
“ … eliminating stormwater runoff from the site. Porous asphalt is as structurally strong as conventional asphalt, … provides temporary storage for water as it slowly soaks into the ground. …”
Philadelphia’s long term goal is to have hundreds of miles of porous asphalts streets in the future.
Via: City of Philadelphia LINK
-#7 as well! This means #3 - Vinyl, #4 - LDPE, #5 - PP, #6 - PS and #7 - other / mixed. 
Braxton's in Devon, PA (western suburbs of Philadelphia) is a 3rd generation family business. We buy a lot of our dog stuff there ... one day I noticed a sign outside touting their "
green-ness" by installing LED lighting.
Mayor Michael Nutter has been promoting Philadelphia's green activities and now the city is being recognized by others as well.
Springside School - Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia has the largest solar installation in the city of Philadelphia. You can see the solar progress with the monitoring station ... the system has the capacity of 92.4 k
Brooklyn may not be the first place you thing of when ROOFTOP gardens come to mind ... BUT Roof Top Farms grows pumpkins, peas and other produce - organically.
Philadelphia is a city of row houses ... unfortunately many are in blighted condition and when they are town down the newly created "end units" are poorly insulated. Cleaning up the blighted homes causes the other homeowners to have basically little or no insulation on a large surface of their home.
.jpg "BigBelly - 8th and Market St, Center City Philadelphia")
is photo is of a container on the SE corner of 8th and Market.
The former Strawbridge and Clothier flagship department store in Philadelphia is being remodeled in a green way. PA. REIT has posted window signs and made green dioramas in the store's street side display cases (most of the building has been closed for some time).
Comcast's HQ in Philadelphia is now LEED Gold certified ... and the tallest such building in the US.
The Go Green Expo comes to Philadelphia, at the PA Convention Center in center city Philadelphia, this weekend ...hours are ... 
"Go Green Expo, ... was conceived after a viewing of the film "An Inconvenient Truth." It prompted the question, "How can we make a difference?" ... will change not only the public's perception of environmentalism but also how events like this are produced and managed. ... Even the event itself is environmentally friendly utilizing a ZERO Carbon footprint approach ... Biodegradable trash bags, eco-friendly printing, table coverings, recycled signs, compostable sponsor banners and more. Event waste will be separated and sorted to ensure the least amount of refuse going to the landfills. Staff travel and a portion of every ticket that is purchased will be carbon offset."
paper -- part of the argument was that the bags are everywhere, require extra labor to pick up and are clogging parts of the city water system / sewer system. Another is that animals can either get caught in them or ingest them.
In order to increase participation in city wide recycling - Philadelphia has fine tuned their recycling program ... to make it weekly and coincide with regular trash pick up ... no more wondering when the recyclables go out to the curb ...
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As part of their 2020 Low Carbon Roadmap .... PECO opened their first "green" building in West Chester (Chester County) Pa. 
renovating to become GREEN.
" ... Christmas tree at 3rd and Poplar Streets in Northern Liberties [Philadelphia, Pa] is 40-feet-tall, and it's lit by solar panels ..."
million and 1 million pounds of carbon emissions over the anticipated 25-year life of the system."
Newly opened condominiums in the Western Suburbs of Philadelphia combine energy efficiency, LEED design standards, a green roof and is within easy walking distance of 2 t
rain stations.
" ... buildings have heating and cooling systems that employ heat pumps connected to extensive underground thermal pipe systems for tremendous energy efficiency. ..."
Villanova University "created" a new wetlands area from a retention basin. "... existing stormwater detention basin on Villanova University property has been converted into an extended detention wetland BMP (Center for Watershed Protection 1996) ... wetland treats runoff from a 41 acre site that includes approximately 16 acres of impervious surface, ..."
I missed this one and would have like to check it out. What really caught my eye was a photo in the local newspaper (Phila Inquirer, Monday Sept 8th) that showed a person dressed as a "bag monster" covered in 700 plastic bags - the number the average person uses per year!
One of Roofscapes "green roofs" is at the Schuykill Valley Nature Center - just outside of Phyioladelphia PA. The roof is not irrigated and covers 2,000 sq ft.
March 11, 2008 - FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. -Presidential Candidate Obama spoke at the US site of Spanish Wind Turbine Company Gamesa.
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