Brian Rudnick for City Council- and Beyond

Green Party Parties at Greenfest Philly

Shown here are PA State  Green Party Chair Hillary Aisenstein and Philadelphia Green Party Chair Charles Sherrouse. Click here for a little video of 2008 Greenfest Randi Peters from the Berks County Greens helped out too!

Rudnick Proposes City to push Reuse, not just Recycle

Proposal for monthly flea markets to replace monthly partnership recycling events

Dear Mayor Nutter:
Hello!
It's great that single-stream, curbside recycling is coming to Chestnut Hill in July and other areas of the City but that's no reason to end our monthly recycling program; let's expand our notion of recycling and recycle household goods and light furniture! So many of these items, still usable, residents put out with their trash, with no disincentive nor incentive to do otherwise, adding tons to our waste stream.

Desk left out in snow for city trash truck

Rudnick, West, Gillet Party at GreenFest Philly

We met hundreds of people of the thousands that showed up for the 4 block long festival, sold t-shirts and buttons, gave out literature and green bead bracelets, signed up many to get info about the Green Party and generally enjoyed the sunny, festive day even as we were addressing issues like global warming, the Iraq war and our Philadelphia races. After Councilman Frank DiCicco addressed a gathering at 10th and South, I in turn welcomed all to the Green Fest and wished that everyone enjoy the party and told them to come on over to our table to learn more about a party with prinicples, a party that likes to party, the Green Party.

What Smells? Demanding Action on Water Pollution

On a Visit to Baltimore's inner Harbor, we were repulsed and nauseated by the stench of the harbor water, experiencing what a National Aqaurium worker, I think, was its third serious brown algal bloom this summer.

The Chesapeake Bay is under enormous pressure from pollution. On a relatively short trip west of Philly one begins to see "Save the Chesapeake" signs since Pennnsylvania and the Susquehanna River are a major part of the bay's watershed. Here in Philadelphia's 8th District, my work with the Philadelphia Water Department and discussions with its scientists and managers give me some confidence that the Saylor's Grove Wetland is performing well in reducing the stormwater surge into the Wissahickon.

But periodic reports from neighbors and activists like Charles Parsons give us serious cause for concern that sewage leaks from the city's aging sewer systems are polluting the Monoshone Creek and thus the Wissahickon Creek and Schuylkill River, an environmental and public health threat.

We need to get official numbers for the pollutant levels in these waterways which are subject to continous monitoring and an update on the city's testing for and remediation of cross connections between sewer and stormwater lines. I intend to make this a priority.

Rudnick Urges Action by State Senator Leanna Washington

Rudnick Urges Action by State Senator Leanna Washington on environmental issues:

• confirmation of Secretary of DEP McGinty and DCNR Secretary DeBerardinis
• legalization of neighborhood electric vehicles
• rehabilitation of PECO eyesore property

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