NRDC Releases Report on Philadelphia's Green Infrastructure

A new Issue Brief released by the Natural Resources Defense Council,  Wanted: Green Acres, provides a case study of Philadelphia’s innovative approach to sourcing cost-effective green infrastructure retrofit opportunities on private land through the Greened Acre Retrofit Program (GARP). 

The new report documents the “how” and “why” of the GARP, and focuses on the elements that differentiate the new program from traditional green infrastructure subsidy programs.  These include an emphasis on project aggregation, a competitive award process and utilization of a pay-for-performance arrangement to ensure long-term maintenance of the green storm water assets on private property.

Source: Natural Resources Defense Council