By Pat Loeb
CBS Philly
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia’s Department of Parks and Recreation got a check for $28,000, the first incentive payment in a pilot program to get city departments to reduce energy use.
The Parks and Rec Department cut its energy use by two million kilowatts.
Waring Elementary School students helped celebrate by dancing at Clemente Recreation Center, where deputy mayor Mike DiBerardinis (at left in photo) said that kids like them were his chief motivation to cut his department’s carbon footprint.
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