How can you help?

//These thoughts came out of the Partnership for a Green Community’s kick-off meeting on Wednesday, February 4th. Please feel free to click the edit button below to share your thoughts!

Below, we answer question #3: How can you help as an individual or as a representative of an group, business, or organization?


  • Start a tree group / fill a void
  • Tap existing organization for labor
  • Tie existing groups together around commonalities
  • Taking better care of the space and adding physical improvements
  • Address the challenges of the El and flesh out what it means to be a neighborhood
  • Involve SEPTA in a local activity / information dissemination
  • Relationships between private enterprise and community activity
  • Educate
  • Market
  • Plant trees
  • Hold events to promote greening
    • celebration
    • destination
  • Recycle
  • Walk and bike
  • Stewardship of parks
  • Encourage green yards
  • Trash can initiative / anti-litter campaign
  • Storm grates
    • following Center City model of trash prevention
  • Help the community establish priorities
  • Training turns people to green practices
  • Rain barrels (works shops)
  • Rain gardens (Guerilla Gardening)
  • Economic development
    • promote green business
  • Promoting green building zoning
    • AND "Greening the code"
  • Create a neighborhood project that is tangible and that community can participate in
  • Tie into national green economy movement
    • STIMULUS PACKAGE
  • Develop a website —> www.sustainable19125.org
    • mission, guiding principles, etc
  • Grassroots community action and events
  • Promote sustainable development
    • zoning, planning, community support and guidelines
  • Connecting buildings with users (developer)
  • Sustainable tours with neighborhood
  • Spread information by word of mouth
  • Provide guidance and expertise
  • Community bulletin board
  • Facebook
  • Time + space + event provision
  • Workshops
    • green arch
    • green roofs
    • home fix
  • Window decal
  • Signing on to Sustainable 19125
  • Be an example
  • Be a watchdog
  • Join an eco-oriented committee
  • Talk with people, engage in dialog
  • Promote existing program successes
    • ie city recycling, Water Department's rain barrels
  • Don't use plastic bags at stores
  • Spreading information
    • particularly dispelling myths
    • addressing controversy
    • technical guidelines / data / recommendations
  • Volunteer skills & abilities to the cause
  • Supporting local business
  • Energy conservation
  • I am looking for people who are interested in writing for the Sustainable 19125 column, a biweekly column in the Fishtown Star (content also featured in the Port Richmond and Kensington Stars). If you have a green topic of interest and enjoy writing, please let me know!

Kevin Musselman
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