Green for All

Why Paso Verde is the most important green building development in Philadelphia
For Paseo Verde, APM chose to build on an empty lot that Philadelphia Gas Works employees were using for parking right beside SEPTA’s Temple University Regional Rail station. | Photo by Jeffrey Totaro
On a recent afternoon, Latifa Patton prepares three giant aluminum baking pans

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GreenBuild Brings the World to Our Doorstep

Greenbuild Conference & Expo puts Philadelphia in the spotlight 
November 20 - 22 
Imagine starting your day with a breakfast where you are privy to some of the top minds in the sustainability industry. Afterwards, you head to a lecture by Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity

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Help Makeover a Philly Rec Center and Win $1,500!

Image via dvgbc.orgThere is something about the new year that compels us to make some serious lifestyle changes. Before you give in to that inexplicable pull to let your hairdresser go beyond a trim, consider directing your makeover impulses toward one of Philadelphia’s aging recreation centers.  There are currently approximately 160 recreation centers in Philadelphia,

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There Is a Light That Sometimes Goes Out: Lutron has been making cutting-edge, energy-saving light switches for 50 years

In 1959, a light bulb illuminated, perhaps gradually, in Brooklyn native Joel Spira’s head. His proverbial bright idea was for a switch that would allow people to vary the intensity of their lighting, and at long last, he’d done it. À la Thomas Edison, Spira emerged from the spare bedroom-turned-makeshift lab in his home with

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Go With the Flow: The Philadelphia Water Department’s Green City, Clean Waters plan gushes with possibilities

When Philadelphia received a mandate from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1997 to improve its combined sewer system, the initial solution wasn’t so great. The plan called for replacing old pipes, building more tunnels—using manmade constructions to better handle stormwater. Streets would be dug up, improvements would be made mostly underground and waterway restoration

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