The Next Mayor | Issues Forums | Environment

The Next Mayor project is an innovative, two-year multimedia partnership to focus on the issues - not just the personalities - leading to the 2007 Philadelphia mayor's race. It was created by the Daily News, WHYY and the Committee of Seventy.

We took what we what we learned from our travels around the region and identified 16 different issues that are important to the people of Greater Philadelphia. Tune in as we convene panels of experts to talk about those issues. They'll let us know how other cities are tackling those same problems and they'll make suggestions to the next mayor.

Decision making at the local level can have a strong impact on the quality of our air, water and visual environment. This election has seen the rise of environmental issues into prominence, causing most of the primary candidates to release their own plans to clean up the city - literally.

Our four panelists - Dr. Mary Myers of the Center for Sustainable Communities, Joseph Otis Minott, Esq., Executive Director of the Clean Air Council, Mary Tracy, head of SCRUB, the Society Created to Reduce Urban Blight and Christine Knapp from Penn Future - outline a list of immediate priorities for the next mayor. These range from recycling, to rethinking storm water management to stricter enforcement of littering laws.

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