A $5 discount on a $40 purchase at ShopRite. A break on admission to the Please Touch Museum. Or a lottery for four movie tickets.

These are some of the discounts offered under the Recycling Rewards program that the city is rolling out citywide over the next few months.

IN ANNOUNCING his intention to build a casino at the Foxwoods site in South Philadelphia, Steve Wynn's introduction to riverfront residents began in choppy water. In an interview, Wynn said he wasn't aware of the city's plans for the Delaware riverfront, and said, "You couldn't do any more damage. . . This whole Penn's Landing fiction is hysterically funny... that Penn's Landing is somehow a recreation area."

This morning, Google announced that it has added bicycle maps for 149 cities in the U.S. -- including Philadelphia -- to its mapping function.  Cycling advocates had been asking for this, and Google delivered.

Hoping to leverage the Philadelphia Water Department’s ambitious new $1.6 billion, 20-year stormwater management plan, the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia (SBN) will issue a report Wednesday on the financial challenges facing private property owners and developers in the coming years.

Is this bang for your buck?

As the city gears up to charge you $300 a year for trash collection, questions linger about whether Philadelphia's trash operation is as efficient as possible.

In Philadelphia "green" circles, Jane G. Pepper is about as close as you can get to a celebrity. At the flower show, she can't walk five feet in any direction without somebody stepping up to shake hands, give her a hug, offer a hi, good luck, bon voyage, and "thank you, thank you."

With a feasibility study in hand that says Philadelphia is well-suited for a bike-sharing program, Mayor Nutter should take the next logical step of soliciting proposals to launch the idea.

Mayor Nutter formally proposed a $300 annual trash fee and a biggest-in-the-nation tax on sugary drinks yesterday as he told Philadelphians that "nothing worth having in life is free."

If misery does indeed love company, Philadelphians have reason to rejoice with their city's budget woes.

One of SEPTA's new Silverliner V Regional Rail cars made its first trip in Philadelphia today, but it went by road, not rail.