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EventsInsights on Energy EfficiencySAVE THE DATE! 8/27 Green Workplace Challenge Workshop #9: "Air Quality" Biophilia: Pittsburgh August Meeting Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival SPC Information Forum for CMAQ Candidate Sponsors: Applications due September 1 Our Landscape Today: Community Impact Summit Register Today! Living Product Expo and Conference |
Sustainable Pittsburgh Heinz Interns work to bring youth outdoors via blog and grant programFunding proposals from municipalities due Aug. 3 at 9amThe Heinz Endowments Summer Youth Philanthropy interns have been busy this summer sharing information through their blog, Guide to Pittsburgh's Sustainable Green Spaces. This blog complements the current funding opportunity for municipalities to encourage youth in spending more time outdoors through stewardship of greenspace. Called “Bring Youth Outdoors”, this funding opportunity aims to help municipalities* while creating positive experiences for youth outdoors through educational workshops, recreation, and volunteering. By getting outdoors, youth are exposed to health benefits of outdoor time as well as greater awareness and appreciation of their community. A total of $25,000 in grant funding is available for awards to municipalities that aim to meet the interns’ project goals. Reminder: The deadline to apply is August Monday, August 3 at 9:00 am.
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ResourcesFunding opportunity for municipalities - applications due Aug. 3 at 9amPittsburgh Restaurants Serving Up Sustainability Google Street View to map urban air pollution h magazine - latest issue chock full of great articles including p4 Summit overview Pittsburgh Celebrated In Study Of Innovative Transportation Policies Inside China's shift to a low-carbon economy |
Insights on Energy EfficiencyMonday, August 10 Join Millvale Borough Development Corporation, Millvale Community Library, Conservation Consultants, Inc. and Sustainable Pittsburgh for an evening focused on small businesses and information about: This event will be an opportunity to find out about strategies for energy efficiency and weatherization, network with fellow small business owners, and to learn how your business can become part of the SWPA Sustainable Small Business Designation program. Featured Speakers: | ||
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SAVE THE DATE! 8/27 Green Workplace Challenge Workshop #9: "Air Quality"Thursday, August 27 Join Sustainable Pittsburgh for the ninth workshop of the 2014-2015 Pittsburgh Green Workplace Challenge (GWC)! The GWC is a yearlong competition for employers in southwestern Pennsylvania to track and measure performance in energy, water, waste, and transportation. This workshop will focus on air quality in our region. | ||
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Biophilia: Pittsburgh August MeetingThursday, August 6 The Aug. 6 Biophilia: Pittsburgh meeting will feature Robert S. Mulvihill, the National Aviary’s ornithologist, who will introduce the discussion topic, "Getting Up Close and Scientific with Pittsburgh's Birds." Perhaps more than any other natural history subjects, birds help connect people with nature, and ornithology has a long history of contribution by citizen scientists. In 2013, Mulvihill brought the Smithsonian Institution's Neighborhood Nestwatch project to Pittsburgh. He and his crew study the impacts of urbanization on a selection of common songbird species — northern cardinal, American robin, song sparrow, black-capped or Carolina chickadee, gray catbird, northern mockingbird, Carolina wren, and house wren — through annual summer visits to nearly 150 backyards in the Greater Pittsburgh area, including the backyard bird habitat of Phipps' executive director, Richard V. Piacentini. Mulvihill will talk about this and the National Aviary's other research and conservation projects.
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Wild & Scenic Environmental Film FestivalSaturday, August 8 Join the Mountain Watershed Association for the Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival. This event will feature live music from The Joint Commission, great food and drinks (craft brews from Bloom Brew, located right on the Yough in West Newton), and nine awesome films with an environmental and outdoor theme. | ||
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SPC Information Forum for CMAQ Candidate Sponsors: Applications due September 1Tuesday, August 11
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPC) is developing the region’s 2017-2020 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The TIP serves to identify needed regional transportation investments over a four-year period that support Mapping the Future: The Southwestern PA Plan, the region’s long range transportation and development plan within fiscal constraint. A visible element of the TIP development process will be the recommended program of projects for the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Program (CMAQ). The CMAQ Program will be the focus of this information forum for potential CMAQ candidate project applicants. | ||
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Our Landscape Today: Community Impact SummitSaturday, September 12 The Center for Coalfield Justice will host a community-wide “Our Landscape Today – Community Impact Summit” on September 12. Landscape Today is a project designed to create an understanding of the environmental and public health issues that residents face due to coal and natural gas extraction. This summit is an opportunity for residents to share their own knowledge with local and regional community members, organizers, experts, and leaders. | ||
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Register Today! Living Product Expo and ConferenceSeptember 16-18, 2015 The Living Product Challenge re-imagines the design and manufacture of products to function as elegantly and efficiently as anything found in the natural world. Living Products are informed by biomimicry and biophilia; manufactured by processes powered only by renewable energy and within the water balance of the places they are made. | ||
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Funding opportunity for municipalities - applications due Aug. 3 at 9amDoes your community have greenspace that needs an upgrade or some TLC? Interested in engaging youth to become more involved? The Heinz Endowments Summer Youth Philanthropy interns based at Sustainable Pittsburgh, in collaboration with SP and Local Government Academy, are please to present “Bring Youth Outdoors”, a funding opportunity that aims to help municipalities while creating positive experiences for youth outdoors through educational workshops, recreation, and volunteering. | ||
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Pittsburgh Restaurants Serving Up Sustainability
Pittsburgh restaurant owners, chefs and farmers have teamed with Sustainable Pittsburgh to launch the Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurant program, which recognizes southwestern PA restaurants for their efforts in operating energy efficient and socially responsible establishments, especially as the city’s eateries garner increasing national attention.
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Google Street View to map urban air pollutionThe cars can measure the presence of nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, ozone, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, black carbon, particulate matter and Volatile Organic Compounds in the surrounding environment, providing a detailed picture of local air quality. . . Governments around the world are under mounting pressure to get a better view of air pollution levels in their cities, following a series of health studies that have shown many thousands of people are dying prematurely each year as a result of poor air quality. More | ||
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h magazine - latest issue chock full of great articles including p4 Summit overview
The next issue of h magazine contains great features including a thorough recap of the p4 Summit held in April:
Pittsburgh civic and nonprofit leaders have introduced a new model for urban revitalization that builds on the insights of experts in sustainability and innovation. This special, four-part report describes how the p4 initiative - launched at an international summit co-hosted by The Heinz Endowments and the City of Pittsburgh - addresses people, planet, place and performance issues to improve redevelopment:
o "Forging a Vision" | ||
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Pittsburgh Celebrated In Study Of Innovative Transportation PoliciesTransitCenter, a group that advocates for public transit and comprehensive transportation policies, released a report this week profiling Pittsburgh among six innovative U.S. cities for transportation policy planning. More | ||
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Inside China's shift to a low-carbon economy
The direction outlined by the Chinese government — to peak the country’s carbon-dioxide emissions around 2030 or likely earlier — is ground-breaking, both in the scale of proposed emissions reductions, and when viewed within the wider trend of substantial GHG reductions pledged by major economies. | ||
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