SAN FRANCISCO — Mayor Gavin Newsom is competitive about many things, garbage included. When the city found out a few weeks ago that it was keeping 70 percent of its disposable waste out of local landfills, he embraced the statistic the way other mayors embrace winning sports teams, improved test scores or declining crime rates.
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By Susan Snyder Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 2008 The University of Pennsylvania leads the nation's colleges and universities in the purchase of green power, specifically wind power, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced. By Felicity Barringer New York Times, May 7, 2008 By Annette John-Hall
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 6, 2008 You would have to be living under a biodegradable rock not to notice that, even with our election obsession, the activists who have been getting a lot of attention lately are not necessarily liberal or conservative, or red or blue. They're green. By Jeff Shields Philadelphia Inquirer, May 5, 2008 City Council's Committee on the Environment holds a hearing at 10 a.m. today in Council Chambers to explore ways to improve the recycling program at Philadelphia International Airport. Committee chairman… By Jennifer Steinhauer New York Times, May 5, 2008 LOS ANGELES — Their requests could have been lofty, expensive and totally unrealistic, but in the end what the people of central Los Angeles really wanted was just a place to sit down. By Sandy Bauers Philadelphia Inquirer, May 1, 2008 The Phillies players all wore green hats last night. Whether it did anything to help their game, no one will know. But it was a sign of the team's new environmental strategy and its new logo: Red Goes Green. A Council committee explored the possibility of an alternate-transportation fleet in the city By Jeff Shields Philadelphia Inquirer, May 1, 2008 City officials yesterday embraced the concept of bicycle sharing as a way to reduce traffic and pollution, but said many questions must be answered before Philadelphia becomes the first U.S. city to institute public pedaling on a large scale. By Chris Brennan Philadelphia Daily News, May 1, 2008 There was consensus in a City Council hearing yesterday that a shared-bicycle program in Philadelphia would help clear traffic congestion, reduce air pollution and improve the health of the people doing the pedaling. April 29, 2008 First he went into Philadelphia neighborhoods to help sweep up; now, only a month later, Mayor Nutter is coming back with the recycling can. The May 5 expansion of the… By Sandy Bauers Philadelphia Inquirer, April 22, 2008 The convenience of placing a range of recyclables in a single container for curbside pickup - "single stream," in industry parlance - will expand to 150,000 households in North Philadelphia and several lower Northeast neighborhoods on May 5, the city announced yesterday. |
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