The 2022 6th Annual Excellence in GSI Awards celebrates the region's excellence in green stormwater infrastructure. The Excellence in GSI Award is the region's only award ceremony recognizing the projects and people that bring the triple bottom line (environmental, social, and economic) benefits of green stormwater infrastructure to life. The ceremony also celebrates all of the project partners that make them possible. Join us on Thursday, April 21, at 6 pm, along with the region’s industry professionals, developers and property owners, government and non-profit institutions, and academics to acknowledge and celebrate the region’s excellence in green stormwater infrastructure. Awards will be given to projects in the following categories: Public Projects and Private Projects. Philadelphia City Councilmember-At-Large Katherine Gilmore Richardson is the recipient of this year’s GSI Champion award, recognizing and celebrating her contributions to advancing the region's green stormwater infrastructure industry. To see this year's finalists, click here. This year’s special guests include: Keynote Address: Stuart Clarke, Program Director, Watershed Protection, William Penn Foundation; GSI Champion Award Recipient: Councilmember-At-Large Katherine Gilmore Richardson; Closing Remarks: Howard Neukrug, Professor of Professional Practice, University of Pennsylvania and Executive Director, The Water Center at Penn

Awards honor advances in green stormwater infrastructure

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The Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia held its sixth annual Excellence in Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) Awards on Thursday, April 21 at FringeArts and La Peg.

Green stormwater infrastructure uses vegetation to soak up rain so that runoff doesn’t overwhelm combined stormwater/sewer systems such as Philadelphia’s, forcing sewage overflows into waterways. For more than 10 years Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Waters initiative has built rain gardens, bioswales, and other green stormwater infrastructure features to reduce pollution.

The awards honored Philadelphia city councilmember Katherine Gilmore Richardson as a GSI Champion. “I’m so honored to be recognized as this year’s GSI Champion!” says Gilmore Richardson. “The GSI Awards showcase the innovation, creativity, and collaboration that have led to a thriving local green stormwater industry, supporting local businesses, creating family-supporting and sustaining careers, and improving community resiliency. These are the types of industries we must be investing in as we look to grow our local economy and protect our residents from the impacts of climate change.”

Other awards went to the Philadelphia Water Department for the American Street Improvement Project and to the Holmesburg Baptist Church and Christian Academy Green Stormwater Infrastructure Project.

Katherine Gilmore Richardson at the Excellence in GSI Awards.

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