This year marks the end of both the Nutter Administration and the Greenworks implementation timeline, and as a result, the Office of Sustainability has released its 2015 Greenworks report as both an annual update and a final report. Greenworks launched in 2009 to serve as the City of Philadelphia’s first comprehensive sustainability plan. The plan […]

Once again, TreePhilly is offering 50 or 100 trees and grants worth $500 that will enable Philadelphia community groups to host yard tree giveaways in their neighborhoods this spring. TreePhilly is a program of Philadelphia Parks and Recreation in partnership with the Fairmount Park Conservancy and Wells Fargo. TreePhilly’s efforts are in direct response to […]

The Mayor’s Office of Sustainability recently released it’s 2014 Greenworks Progress Report, the Office’s fifth annual report on the city’s comprehensive sustainability plan. Goals set by the Greenworks plan were designed to be met in 2015. The report outlines some of the successes the City of Philadelphia and its non-profit and private partners have made in the five Greenworks goal areas: […]

City initiatives focused on the issue of sustainability may seem like the norm in Philadelphia, but this focus is in large part due to the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, which is a temporary agency established by the Nutter Administration in 2009. Councilmembers Blondell Reynolds Brown and Jim Kenney have proposed a bill to make the […]