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EventsIn The Air - Visualizing What We BreatheBiophilia: Pittsburgh January Meeting: Envisioning Biophilic Pittsburgh Managing Uncertainty: The New Economics of the Power Industry ResourcesIntroducing "(Re)Building Downtown"Financing infrastructure through resilience bonds |
Sustainable Pittsburgh Statement on the Paris Agreement – COP21 On December 12, 2015 nearly 200 nations formally acknowledged the challenges of climate change and agreed to take steps to “accelerate reduction of global greenhouse gas emissions” during the United Nations COP21 conference in Paris. The agreement (actually more a pledge) marks a consensus and historic shift towards a global transition to a low carbon economy and is a call to action for all nations—developed and developing.
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Resources ContinuedEnergy InnovationLetter opposing House Bill 1327 (P.N. 2650) Sustainable Pittsburgh's Green Workplace Challenge winners reduced landfill waste, cut water usage and more Global cancer hotspots: Burden of disease is shifting to developing world Rating Pittsburgh's Transit Usage |
In The Air - Visualizing What We Breathe Open through February 26 Photographers Brian Cohen, Scott Goldsmith, Lynn Johnson and Annie O’Neill have spent the last year recording people and places that illustrate the environmental, social and economic effects of air quality in Western Pennsylvania. An accompanying book designed by Brett Yasko with essays by Reid Frazier will expand on and provide context to the visual work. In addition to the exhibition and book, the project will also have an online presence, air.thedocumentaryworks.org. This team has gathered materials that describe the variety of issues at the heart of the air quality subject; highlighting the relationship between the health of the community and the health of its environment.
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Biophilia: Pittsburgh January Meeting: Envisioning Biophilic PittsburghThursday, January 7
Biophilia: Pittsburgh is the pilot chapter for a global Biophilia Network of creative minds dedicated to strengthening the bond between people and the natural world through education, discussion and action. | ||
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Managing Uncertainty: The New Economics of the Power IndustryWednesday, February 17, 2016 Featured Speakers: | ||
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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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Letter opposing House Bill 1327 (P.N. 2650)On behalf of more than one hundred thousand Pennsylvanians, we write to express our strong opposition to House Bill 1327, the Fiscal Code bill passed by the Senate on December 10. While there are several problems with this legislation, our opposition is based mainly on the eleventh-hour insertion of harmful provisions concerning the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and gas drilling regulations for “conventional” oil and gas well activities. Because these provisions are hostile to public health and the environment, contrary to public will, and likely unconstitutional, we urge you to vote against HB 1327 – and any other legislation that may come before you containing the same language. More | ||
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Sustainable Pittsburgh's Green Workplace Challenge winners reduced landfill waste, cut water usage and moreWinners were announced Dec. 2. Perhaps most impressive was the Top Legacy Performer award-winner — Conservation Consultants Inc. The South Side-based nonprofit is using 66 percent less energy than it did during the Challenge’s baseline year of 2010-11. (Even back then, this outfit, whose job is telling people how to save energy, was already using much less than the average for a building its size.) More | ||
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Global cancer hotspots: Burden of disease is shifting to developing worldAddressing this inequality is critical, the researchers wrote in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, because "a large proportion of cancers can be prevented through measures including tobacco control, vaccination, early detection, and promotion of healthy lifestyles." | ||
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Rating Pittsburgh's Transit UsageMetro Pittsburghers use public transit at a higher rate than residents of most other benchmark regions, according to recently released figures from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation. The government figures, which unfortunately are nearly two years old upon their release, do not reflect any impact that the dramatic decline in oil prices since June 2014 have had on ridership. In this measure, we also include several regions not usually in our benchmark group including: Washington, D.C., Portland, Seattle and Buffalo. More | ||
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Introducing "(Re)Building Downtown"
Downtowns, Main Streets, and city centers across the country are witnessing a renaissance. As more Americans choose the convenience and connectivity of walkable neighborhoods, communities are seeing new businesses, restaurants, and shops open in areas that were formerly vacant or economically distressed. | ||
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Financing infrastructure through resilience bondsThe linkage is designed to reduce risks, akin to how quitting smoking or exercising regularly lowers life insurance costs. In the case of resilient infrastructure, investing in coastal protection or seawalls helps avoid physical and financial disaster. Resilience bonds combine these two different types of investments by modifying traditional catastrophe bonds to provide insurance savings that can be captured as rebates to invest in resilient infrastructure projects. More | ||
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