This once-distressed Philly neighborhood wants to be the city's greenest
Posted June 17, 2011 in Environmental Justice, Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably
While in Wilmington for the EPA symposium on green historic preservation, I was treated to a very interesting presentation by Kevin Gray of Philadelphia's New Kensington Community Development Corporation. The CDC serves three adjoining Philly neighborhoods - Fishtown, Olde Richmond, and East Kensington - and it is currently engaged with the residents to make their zip code the greenest in the city. Thus the multi-faceted project's name, Sustainable 19125.
You can read all about this great initiative here, but this video provides the best overview:
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Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily about community, development, and the environment. For more posts, see his blog's home page.
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Steve S. — Jun 17 2011 03:14 PM
Some minor corrections:
(1) "New Kensington" is hardly a "distressed" area anymore. Instead, it is rapidly gentrifying.
(2) Neither "East Kensington" nor "Olde Richmond" sic are widely-used community names in Philadelphia. Rather, they are both just the impromptu appellations given by neighborhood associations to their catchments.
(3) Most Philadelphians just call the whole area "Kensington", a place-name which overlaps with some rather nastier neighborhoods north of Lehigh Avenue.
To say place naming in this part of the river wards is complicated is to make it sound simple.
Kaid @ NRDC — Jun 17 2011 03:47 PM
Fair enough. I just borrowed nomenclature from the NKCDC's web site.
William — Jun 19 2011 09:37 AM
Very Excellent post!
Anne wayman — Jun 21 2011 09:28 PM
Wonderful stuff. Thinking about what I might be able to do in 92105.
Thanks