Boston gets Down

Pitch the City explores green innovation

The city has long touted its track record on advancing green initiatives, and yesterday that list got a little longer with the help of three local environmental advocates.

The Pitch the City contest, which involved competing ideas from residents to make Boston greener, wrapped up yesterday and two ideas were selected to be incorporated into the city’s green agenda. One of those ideas came from 11-year-old Alie Reilinger and 12-year-old Mimi Colson Leaning, two Jamaica Plain neighbors who presented a plan to promote recycling through murals at T stations, schools and the city’s electrical boxes.

The four finalists “pitched” their concepts to a panel of judges yesterday at the Down:2:Earth green living expo at the Hynes Convention Center.

“Their idea will capture the imagination of local residents and signal to them to do the right thing for the environment,” said panelist Jim Hunt, the city’s energy and environment chief.

The panel also selected an idea for a “Get a Little Greener” public awareness campaign suggested by Jessica Lerner, a Brookline resident and green living consultant with her own company, Green on the Inside. Her idea also involved the Red Sox wearing green socks during one home game.