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EventsUpcoming Hard to Recycle EventsOpen Streets PGH Join the Beyond Coal Campaign on June 28 to protect public lands from coal mining! WEBINAR: Putting Innovation to Work within Employee Sustainability Initiatives Community Meetings: Pittsburgh Bike Plan ResourcesIntroducing "Foot Traffic Ahead 2016"PA’s Climate Majority Rallies At Capitol For Action On Climate Change, Clean Energy How Turin is converting a dead industrial area into an innovation hub |
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Resources ContinuedEnergy InnovationNew p4 conference scheduled for fall Allegheny County Council OKs participation in land bank Power of 32 - What You Need to Know About Energy - The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Video: Longwall Mining Damage to Polen Run Environmental, health impacts of US health-care system Labor shortage linked to poor transportation |
Upcoming Hard to Recycle EventsSaturday, June 25
Since 2003, PRC has held Hard to Recycle collections in Southwestern PA with the goal of providing responsible and convenient recycling for items not able to be recycled at the curb. At these events individuals have been able to recycle such item as e-waste, cell phones, polystyrene, compact fluorescent bulbs, alkaline batteries, Freon-containing appliances, tires and more. | ||
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Open Streets PGHSunday, June 26 What if you could close down a city street, and use it for a few hours of good, healthy, family fun? You’d have OpenStreetsPGH. Come down to walk, run, bike and skate through the streets of Pittsburgh! It’s a whole new way to look at and experience your city. And a whole new way to have fun with your friends and family. Take a look at the route map to see just how much fun you can pack into three-and-a-half miles from Downtown to the Strip District to Lawrenceville! The Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurant team will be part of the festivities - be sure to stop by! Stationed at the corner of 16th and Penn Ave, the team has fun games planned for OpenStreetsPGH participants including Pin the Tail on the Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurant, Build a Fruit and Veggie Tower, Marshmallow Relay, and Sponge Ball Tossing. There will also be prize giveaways, generously donated by tthe following Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurants: Monterey Bay Fish Grotto, Franktuary, and Family Farms Creameries. The next Open Streets is scheduled for Sunday, July 31. | ||
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Join the Beyond Coal Campaign on June 28 to protect public lands from coal mining!Tuesday, June 28 For decades, the federal government has been leasing taxpayer-owned public lands to fossil fuel companies at bargain-basement rates. As a result, 40 percent of all coal produced in the United States comes from public, taxpayer-owned land. Now, for the first time in history the government has put a pause on allowing new federal coal leasing, to study the impact coal mined from public lands has on climate -- and they want to hear from you! | ||
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WEBINAR: Putting Innovation to Work within Employee Sustainability InitiativesTuesday, June 28 In this one-hour webcast, seasoned practitioners will share: | ||
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Community Meetings: Pittsburgh Bike PlanThursday, July 14 Consider this: when the “current” Bike Plan was drafted, the Eliza Furnace Trail was brand new. Today, Pittsburgh has high-tech bike share (that you can rent with your phone), OpenStreetsPGH, a trail that connects to Washington DC, and protected bike lanes – things whose existence was barely even conceivable two decades ago. An updated Bike Plan is a necessary tool to move forward in expanding bike infrastructure, policies, and events. | ||
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Resources | ||
Energy InnovationEnergy Innovation (EI) is a biweekly newsletter of the Energy for the Power of 32 initiative. It features news and events that are accelerating sustainable development for the power of 32. View the latest edition of EI using the link below.
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New p4 conference scheduled for fallThis year’s conference will include special focus on issues of equity, addressing deeply ingrained social and economic barriers that disadvantage members of Pittsburgh’s community, based on race, ethnicity, gender and poverty. A key principle of p4 is to create a Just Pittsburgh where all are included, a place that embraces creativity and innovation, and most of all equity and fairness for its people.
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Allegheny County Council OKs participation in land bankCounty took a huge step forward Tuesday when county council members voted 14-0 to approve the county's participation. Council members said the Tri-COG Land Bank provides another tool to combat blight while limiting the county's financial stake in the process. More | ||
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Power of 32 - What You Need to Know About Energy - The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicineThe greater Pittsburgh region reflected in this chart includes 32 counties in southeastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania, western Maryland, and northern West Virginia. This interactive diagram is based on the regional energy flow diagram produced for Sustainable Pittsburgh in 2014 by Ethos Collaborative and Fourth Economy, the first-ever analysis of the region’s balance of energy production, consumption, and net imports and exports. More | ||
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Video: Longwall Mining Damage to Polen RunThe Bailey Mine expansion, on the edge of Ryerson State Park, has been advancing underground while the Center for Coalfield Justice is in ongoing litigation around this permit. The mine is currently undermining a section of Polen Run in Greene County that feeds into North Fork Dunkard Fork, the stream that flows through Ryerson Station State Park. This video shows the impact to streams from longwall mining, and the disruption resulting from the company’s attempts to remediate the stream. Attend the 10th Annual DRYerson Festival this Saturday, June 25th from 1 PM to 4 PM at Pavilion #1 in Ryerson Station State Park to learn about the fight to protect the streams in and around Ryerson and how you can help. More | ||
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Environmental, health impacts of US health-care systemIn addition, the researchers calculated the public health impact of healthcare emissions. For the year 2013, they estimated health damages from the pollutants at 470,000 "disability adjusted life years" (DALYs) -- a measure of years lost due to ill health, disability, or early death. More | ||
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Introducing "Foot Traffic Ahead 2016"The new report ranks the country’s 30 largest metropolitan areas based on the amount of commercial and multi-family rental development in WalkUPs, and uses a series of forward-looking metrics to predict how walkable their future development might be. The research also uses social equity metrics like housing costs, transportation costs, and access to jobs to understand the relationship between walkability and social equity. | ||
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PA’s Climate Majority Rallies At Capitol For Action On Climate Change, Clean EnergyCourt Gould, Executive Director of Sustainable Pittsburgh remarked, “Smart business leaders understand that climate change poses significant risk and uncertainty to the long-term sustainability of their enterprise. A business that abdicates responsibility for addressing climate change is bound to be marginalized in the marketplace. Tackling climate change presents real opportunity for innovation, growth and competitive advantage.” More | ||
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How Turin is converting a dead industrial area into an innovation hubThe Ex-Incet redevelopment will be complete by the end of the year. It will test the idea that local government can restore economic growth simply by facilitating the actions and interactions of others. Turin Mayor Piero Fassino is convinced it will work. | ||
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Labor shortage linked to poor transportationHotels, stores and restaurants in southwestern Butler County are hiring, but some managers say it is difficult to fill hourly or low-paying positions. | ||
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