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January
12, 2006
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“More and more, I see businesses, not
only locally, but notable, nationwide corporations that are innovating products
and sustainable practices that respond to consumer demand for triple bottom line
value beyond ‘consumerism’. This
shows me that the concept and promise of sustainability is ever broadening.”
“The increasing calls for diversity
among leadership in all sections is evidence of growing appreciation that
diversity not only contributes to better, more equitable decisions, but also
pays on the bottom line in long lasting material ways.”
“The addition of bike paths in many
communities, linking main streets to neighborhoods to shopping centers, shows
that people are becoming increasingly aware of sustainability.
Bike paths are not only a sign of the effort to conserve natural
resources—they signify a community’s dedication to promoting healthy
activity, sustaining the health of people and thus economic productivity.”
Keep these statements coming!
EVENTS
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·
Agents of Change Series
on WQED
·
Save
the Date: Ready to Be Heard: Advocacy Training for Women
·
Nexus The Pittsburgh
Dialogue for Volunteers, Philanthropists, and Activists
·
Women
Against Abusive Relationships Healing Space Workshop
·
Save the
Date: 2006
NonProfit Summit
·
Save
the Date: Global
Warming 2006: An Activist's Primer
·
Save
the Date: 6th Annual Southwestern
Pennsylvania Smart Growth Conference
LAND
USE NEWS AROUND THE REGION
·
Fayette farmers slam
officials for zoning changes
·
Council OKs plan
developed with neighbors
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Officials discuss partnership
·
Controversial development
approved
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New development to be a
place to live, shop
RESOURCES
·
Planning for Development
and Sewage Infrastructure: Can We Be Consistent
·
Looking Toward 2025: The
Organic Industry of the Future?
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Pittsburgh region lags
state in job growth
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Fuel economy drives many
to make hybrid switch
·
Lobbying 101: a short
step on the long haul
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Could real estate
pendulum be swinging back to Downtown area?
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Whole Foods commits to
wind energy
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Liberty-Clairton will
get separate ratings
·
Champions of
Sustainability Online Audio Library
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Scholarships to the
History and Landmarks Foundation Preservation Conference
Thursday,
January 19
8:00
am – 12:00 pm
William
Penn Hotel, 17th Floor
Cost:
$50
Info:
Ilene Scwartz 412-281-9690 or Schwartz@mccmcd.com
This seminar is for leaders and board members
of nonprofit organizations. Topics
include: “Legislative, Regulatory and Funding Trends: What are the Operating
Realities for Nonprofits?” And “10 Questions Nonprofits Need to Answer for
Sustainability, Accountability and Capacity.”
This event is sponsored by Dewey & Kaye nonprofit consultants.
Thursday,
January 19
7:00
pm
"Our Region's Next Renaissance: Thriving
Neighborhoods” is the third program of a five-part series about local
nonprofits as agents of change and airs Thursday night, Jan. 19 at 7 pm OnQ.
Agents of Change series is in collaboration
with The Forbes Fund. The five-part series will lead up to the Non-profit Summit
in March.
Wednesday,
January 25
12:00
am – 1:30 p.m.
2500
Posvar Hall
RSVP
to COPC at: hirth@gro.pitt.edu
Presented by Norman Krumholz, a Professor in the Levin College of Urban
Affairs who earned his planning degree at Cornell. Prior to this, he served as a
planning practitioner in
Friday,
January 27
3:00
pm – 8:00 pm
Saturday,
January 28
8:00
am – 3:00 pm
Cost:
$20
Registration
Deadline: January 18
Contact
Kristin: kdeluca@chatham.edu
412-365-2986 for more information.
The Ready to Be Heard advocacy training program is designed to educate and
empower women to influence government through the development of advocacy skills
and the acquisition of knowledge about policy-making and political engagement.
This program is for women who want to learn how to affect policies at the
local and state levels, interact with public officials, and participate in
public affairs. The event will
include: professional lobbyists as trainers and panelists, tracks for for-profit
and non-profit professionals; networking; applied case studies and exercises;
and take-home resource guides. Whether
you are looking to lobby for social change or on behalf of your own small
business, this workshop is for you.
The Ralph Bangs Report: http://www.ucsur.pitt.edu/Benchmarks%20Women%27s%202004.htm
Monday,
January 30
Refreshments:
5:30 pm; Program: 6:15
The
Cabaret at
Seventh
Street and
Downtown
Parking
at
Please
register in advance: call
412-227-6814 or visit www.rmu.edu/bcnm
We need your voice! Volunteers, philanthropists and activists hold the
keys to engaging our entire community in the work of building the best possible
future for our region. As part of Nexus, a series of national nonprofit leaders
will visit
Join us as we discuss the powerful community solutions forged across
Tuesday,
January 31
9:30
am – 12:00 pm
9:00
am: Refreshments
Magee
Women’s Hospital
Room
2131 – Tower Lobby
Registration
Required: e-mail contact information to waarheals@yahoo.com
or call 412-818-3225
“Depression Can Strike at Any Age: Spotting the Warning Signs”
presented by Donald Svidergol, program manager, Women’s Behavioral HealthCARE
of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Through an interactive session, participants will have the opportunity to
learn the dynamics of depression and how to deal with it.
Tuesday,
March 7
Participate in a 21st Century community decision-making process
that is being used in
http://www.gwpa2.org/programs/summit/2006/hold.cfm?CFID=1037135&CFTOKEN=24585681
Saturday,
March 25, 2006
10:00
am – 3:00 pm
Coraopolis,
near
Participants will learn the latest on global warming science, hear from
experts on Federal and state policy and network with other activists from across
the state and region. For further details and information on conference
registration, visit: www.pennfuture.org
Coming Together to Revitalize Our Communities:
RenewSWPA Cross-Community and
Friday, May 19, 2006
Omni William Penn Hotel,
Keynote: David
Soule, Associate Director
Center for
Urban & Regional Policy, Northeastern University
Cost: Early
Registration: $30. Registration
after May 12: $40 (free to elected officials)
Call (412)
258-6642 for early registration
The 2006 SWPA Smart Growth Conference will address
strategies to revitalize the region's core communities and seek to identify a
set of policy opportunities around which there is consensus for collaboration.
Leading up to the conference, a series of
community forums will be orchestrated around the region to identify common barriers
and opportunities to redevelopment. Common needs and policy options identified
through the forums will be presented at the annual conference toward
developing consensus on policies to renew
Please mark your calendars for May 19 and
register early.
The annual Smart Growth conference and regional
forums are hosted by the Regional Coalition of Community Builders, Southwestern
Pennsylvania Commission,
Unlike most of the crowds at the
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s%5F410928.html
Greensburg Council unanimously approved Monday a
comprehensive plan involving the city and three other communities. The other
municipalities in the plan --
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/westmoreland/s_411998.html
Faced with rising costs, a flat tax base and an
aging infrastructure, the mountain communities of Markleysburg and Ohiopyle
boroughs and Henry Clay, Saltlick, Springfield, Stewart, and Wharton townships
recently held two informational workshops to collect information on how to seek
options to increase the effective use of local tax dollars through the formation
of a "Mountain Area Council of Governments."
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/mountainarea/s_394366.html
Nasser Elyaderani described the
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/tribnorth/s_409936.html
Construction of the $25 million,
200,000-square-foot retail segment of the Village at Pine is expected to begin
in June, the developer said. The
174-acre Village at Pine development, off Route 19 between Wallace Road and
Route 910, will be a commercial and residential development modeled after an
old-fashion town concept where residents can walk to stores, said Dominic
Gigliotti Sr. of Gigliotti Holdings of Pine. There will 499 town homes, single
family homes and quads, he said.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/tribnorth/s_409908.html
A paper published by the Environmental Law
Institute. The Environmental Law
Institute continues to study opportunities for improving the connection between
sewage infrastructure and sound development in
http://www2.eli.org/research/pennplan/index.htm
and click on “Planning Development and Sewage Infrastructure: Can We Be
Consistent?”
On Nov. 10, 2005, U.S. Green Building Council
(USGBC) President Rick Fedrizzi presented leadership awards to 10 Chinese real
estate developers and government leaders for their "pioneering work in
transforming the world's largest building industry." The developers, who
represent some of
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/features/feature_template.cfm?ID=1289
As 2005, the 20th Anniversary of the Organic
Trade Association (OTA) drew to a close, it conducted a survey of industry
research organizations and long-time member companies to envision what the
industry might look like in 20 years.
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/features/feature_template.cfm?ID=1288
Although
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06011/635626.stm
Dr. Richard Reilly still gets curious looks when
he drives his car at slow speeds in downtown traffic.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/blairsvilledispatch/
The two-day training event, set for Jan. 27 and
28, is designed to teach women how to affect policy, interact with public
officials and participate in public affairs. Professional lobbyists will be
trainers and panelists. There will be sessions for for-profit and nonprofit
professionals, applied case studies, exercises and resource guides.
The program will be held at
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06011/635743.stm
"While we were on the one hand disappointed
that American Eagle didn't locate in the core, we certainly appreciate and
understand their desire to be closer to the action," he said. "In my
opinion, that's what downtowns are really good at -- they are really the nexus
of people and ideas in the region." And with several thousand condominiums
and apartments planned or under construction Downtown, the Golden Triangle could
see more interest in other development as well, he said. "This trend of
companies coming, if not in the Downtown, close to the Downtown, speaks well for
the absorption of new space," he said.
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2006/01/09/focus6.html
If 2006 is the Year of Integrity -- and
especially if it is not -- it also must become the year in which we prepare for
a citizens' constitutional convention no later than 2007. People are eager to
talk about their government and how to make it respond to today's realities.
People want to debate and decide whether to:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06008/633980.stm
Natural-food grocer Whole Foods Market Inc. said
Tuesday it will rely on wind energy for all of its electricity needs, making it
the largest corporate user of renewable energy in the
Environmental officials have found a way to deal
with the bad air from
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_412324.html
“An internationally significant tutorial on the
concept and promise of sustainability.” Listen
to many of the Champions of Sustainability lectures from the comfort of your own
home or office. Also, if you use
iTunes, search “Sustainability” and see what comes up!