 • Gardens & green
space warmly welcome residents, visitors, and potential businesses
to a community.
• Landscaping an area with trees, shrubs,
and flowers deters further littering and dumping by sending a message
that the community cares and is watching.
• Gardens and green
space promote civic pride and responsibility
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Programs |
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College Internship Program
– More info… |
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2006 Community Greening Recognition Award
– Project of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful and one of
its member organizations - the Pennsylvania Horticultural
Society. More info… |
During 2005, KPB teamed with the municipal
police officers training authority to develop and disseminate
a fact sheet on PA litter and illegal dumping laws. Click
here to download this fact sheet as a PDF file.
In 2006, the Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Law & Enforcement
Committee is undertaking three major projects:
- Develop a “Best Practices Manual” describing
enforcement methods that have been effective in communities
across PA. The manual will include information on Allentown’s
SWEEP program. For detailed information on this innovative
approach click
here
- Research effective methods of engaging local courts in
enforcing litter and other quality of life offenses. Develop
training & outreach for court officials.
- Explore the feasibility of environmental/quality of life
courts in Pennsylvania in cooperation with all the KPB alliance
members and Pennsylvania’s court agencies and authorities.
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Plans and Goals |
GOALS
Beautify Pennsylvania thru plantings, graffiti abatement,
partnerships, education, maintenance, & stewardship
PLANS
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• Initiate statewide strategic plan
for roadside aesthetics in PA
• Promote KAB’s
Graffiti Hurts program
• Research using college
interns to assist PA neighborhoods |
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| Alliance
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| Keep
America Beautiful Resources and Links |
Green space & gardens Littering & dumping, and
conversely cleaning & enhancing, are all individual,
social behaviors and must, therefore, be approached as a
desired change in behavior. Keep America Beautiful,
Inc. has effectively used this approach throughout their
national affiliate network for the past thirty years. The
recent academic research by Dr. Doug McKenzie Mohr further
refines, defines and substantiates this idea of “Fostering
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