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| | WALK RIDE SHARE KICKOFF | | VOLUME I, ISSUE XVI |  | Walk Ride Share participants surrender their keys | | | | Podcast | | Listen to the PennFuture podcast at www.pennfuturepodcast.org Includes interviews with Urban Sustainability Forum speakers and more! |
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| Thursday afternoon at Dilworth Plaza, twenty businesses and residents literally handed over their car keys, committing to a full month of auto abstinence for PhillyCarShare’s Walk Ride Share Philadelphia Challenge! The challenge is a big leap for many. Participants include families, musicians, local shop owners, architects, and more – with ages spanning 22 to 67. To help participants along, PhillyCarShare gave them free SEPTA passes, PhillyCarShare driving credits, Puma walking shoes, Amtrak discounts, and more. What’s it like to live car-free? Can they do it? Read their blogs with all the good and bad online at www.walkrideshare.org. | | | CITY GETS SOLAR POWER PLANT | | This week, Mayor Michael Nutter, along with Secretary Kathleen McGinty of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, announced that Exelon Generation Co., a unit of Exelon Corp. in Chicago, has joined forces with Epuron LLC to build, operate and sell energy from a solar power plant in South Philadelphia. The 1-1.4 megawatt facility will be built on 6 to 8 acres of brownfields and will contain between 6,000 and 8,000 solar panels- enough to power about 200 homes a year. | | | PHILLIES "RED GOES GREEN" | | Following in the green footsteps of their neighbors, the Philadelphia Phillies have launched their "Red Goes Green" campaign, starting with a renewable energy power purchase of 20 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) to serve the ball club’s 43,500-seat Citizens Bank Park.
Other environmental practices at the ballpark include recycling frying oil to be used as biodiesel fuel; recycling glass, plastic and cardboard generated from game day operations; using carry out trays that are 100 percent post consumer fiber, using locally grown produce and organic foods; and using compostable products. | | | NEWS | | | | | EVENTS | | | |
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