Urban Green Partnerships

http://urbangreenpartnership.org/ Urban Green Partnership, or the UGP, was founded in 2005. This company works to try and educate people on 'living green'. They do community outreach programs like 'phillygreenfest', a green street party that is held on south street. greenfest 2009 was a complete success! In the year 2010 they plan on holding a 'wasteless' competition between all of the businesses in the south street headhouse district. this competition is challenging these businesses to cut down their individual use of electricity, water and gas for three months next year. along with these different community outreach programs they are working on their flagship project Philly 2 zero, a 3 story mixed use building. The building will capture and reuse 100% of the rainwater that falls on site. The finished structure will be as green as possible with modern day technology. The building will house an ecolab that will serve to test new green products and systems. The UGP will be working in partnership with 'the big green building' on this project. Even though this group has not created a park they are working to green up Philadelphia's environment, and they have created a 'green space' once a year in their 'greenfests' on south street. The building they are currently working on will also be a 'green space' that will benefit Philadelphia. By bringing more green technology into the area I feel people will be more aware of their environments and thinking about how they could change and impact their world for the better. There is a lot of really interesting information throughout this site, and to think that next year we could actually ride the train to south street and visit the 'greenfest'! Here is a direct link to the project details if anyone would feel like checking it out for themselves: http://www.p20project.org/