Neighborhood Appearance and Environment

Take Action

• L&I Complaints-Online Service Request
• Become a Philadelphia More Beautiful Block
• Make Creative Use of Open Space through Community Gardens
• Create a Neighborhood Mural

Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Agencies

• Recycling Pays-Streets Department
• Recycle Now Campaign
• Illegal Trash Dumping-SWEEP Program
• Philadelphia More Beautiful Committee
• Neighborhood Transformation Initiative
• Community Cleanups-Managing Directors' Office
• Health Department : Air Management Services (Pollution)
• Health Department: Environmental Services
• Water Dept.
• Pa. Dept. of Environmental Resources
• Pa. Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources

Community Organizations

• Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
• Penn State Urban Agriculture Program (Vegetable Gardens)
• Clean Air Council
• Litterbug.Org-Litter Resource Directory
• Awbury Arboretum
• UC Green


For National Resources on the Environment go to:
Neighborhoods Online: National-Environment

For more information contact the Institute for the Study of Civic Values
 1218 Chestnut St., Rm. 702, Philadelphia, Pa. 19107, 215-238-1434
Online: http://www.iscv.org