Called "Greenworks Philadelphia," the plan identifies 15 goals the administration hopes to reach by 2015 - the last year of a possible second term for Nutter.
The mayor will formally announce the plan in a speech at the Franklin Institute that will mark the culmination of a campaign promise and, at least momentarily, shift attention away from the troubled city budget.
"This is really an economic development strategy. This is about jobs," said Mark Alan Hughes, Nutter's director of sustainability.
He described the plan's overarching goal as repositioning Philadelphia for a new future - and away from a past marked by deep job losses and a declining population.
"So while it is about carbon reduction, it's really about poverty reduction," he said. "While it's about providing fresh food in neighborhoods, it's really about building an agriculture sector of jobs."
While other cities, such as New York and Chicago, have in recent years already unveiled similar blueprints for "green" living, none have done so at a time when the federal government is ready to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on renewable energy, energy conservation and other such programs.
But that is just what President Obama is prepared to do as part of the $787 billion stimulus plan - and the mayor's office anticipates using some of that money to fund some Greenworks programs, such as weatherizing homes and installing electricity-saving LED traffic lights.
"It is a bit serendipitous," Joseph Manko, chairman of the mayor's Sustainability Advisory Board, said of the completion of Greenworks Philadelphia. "To me, the timing couldn't be better."
In terms of "green" initiatives, Philadelphia is on the White House's radar, with Vice President Biden convening a task force hearing last February at the University of Pennsylvania on the "green" economy. Nutter was one of the speakers.
