March
9, 2006
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EVENTS
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·
Global
Warming 2006: An Activist's Primer
·
Save
the Date: Banff Film Festival
·
6th
Annual Southwestern Pennsylvania Smart Growth Conference
·
Penn
Future’s Annual Clean Energy Conference: Getting Beyond 10 Percent
TRANSPORTATION
FOR LIVABLE COMMUNITIES
·
State
Route 28 - Sections A09 and A10 - East Ohio Street Improvement Project
·
2005
SPC Certification Review by FHWA and FTA
·
FTA
Joint Development Guidance
·
Mon
Valley: Turnpike Commission adopts residents' ideas for Expressway changes
·
Getting
Around: The $3 billion question -- Will Aussies invest in our toll roads?
·
Rail
stop project gets amber light Apartments, retail space targeted for Castle
Shannon parking lot
RESOURCES
·
EPA urged to toughen
standards on fine air pollutants
·
Forum: Stay hot on the trails
·
Making Our Cities Fuel
Efficient
·
Arizona Passes 15
Percent Renewable Energy Standard
·
DOE Grant to Fund
Hydrogen Production Research
·
The Sunshine State's
Potential for Power
Thursday,
March 23
5:30
– 8 pm
Wood
Street Galleries
Downtown
Register:
http://www.lpinc.org/programs.asp?id=8
412.392.4503
SPEAKERS:
Neil Barclay, President & CEO, African American Cultural Center
The Honorable Frank Dermody, Member PA House of Representatives
Sam Hazo, President/Director International Poetry Forum, Poet Lauriat,
State of
Janet Sarbaugh, Senior Program Director, Arts and Culture, Heinz
Endowments
MODERATOR: Kevin McMahon,
President,
Thursday,
6-8 pm, March 23
Turtle
Creek,
Hosted
by
Friday,
9 – 11:30 am, March 31
Community
College of
Monaca,
Hosted
by
Monday,
6 – 8 pm, April 10
Hill
House
Hosted
by Hill House Association
Thursday,
6-8 pm, April 20
Delmont,
Hosted
by Blairsville Improvement Group and Vandergrift Improvement Project
No
Fee to Attend
Register:
info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
subject “Regional Forums” or phone 412-258-6644
Building toward the May 19, 2006 Smart Growth Conference, a series of
regional forums will be held to identify a focused set of broadly supported
policies to revitalize the region's core communities as regional economic
assets.
These forums are designed to do the following:
·
Serve as an opportunity for public input
to the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission's updating of the long range
transportation and development plan "Project Region."
·
Consider community needs and identify
common barriers as well as opportunities for sustainable redevelopment.
·
Build on existing efforts to provide
technical assistance to develop a resource network for sustainable
redevelopment. Attending each
forum will be resource/technical assistance partners who will be ready to
follow-up.
·
Review a set of currently emerging state
and regional policy options and assess their match to local needs.
·
Enhance understanding of our
communities’ interdependence.
·
Demonstrate that the needs of individual
communities are often mutually shared across the region.
·
Grow consensus on a focused set of public
policy solutions and collaborations for their implementation to renew SWPA.
The forums are hosted by
To register for this and/or other upcoming forums, either email info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
or telephone 412-258-6644.
Please continue to check your 3E Links e-news service for forums scheduled
in your region.
Saturday, March 25
10 am – 3 pm
Our Lady of Sacred Heart Convent Auditorium
Coraopolis (
RSVP before March 22: 800-321-7775 www.pennfuture.org
Free, lunch included
Free tabling space available to organizations
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. Discussion
about what
Tuesday,
March 28
2
pm
RSVP
online:
As part of Easter Seals Project ACTION’s 2006 Distance Learning Seminar
Series, co-presenters Terry Parker and Ronald Baumgart will discuss creative
strategies their systems have used to increase accessible, public transportation
in their communities. This is a free audio conference open to the public.
Thursday,
April 13 – Friday, April 14
7
pm
Byham
Theatre
Downtown
Advance
tickets: $8 Venture Outdoors Members, $10 Non-Members
Both
Nights: $12 VO Members, $15 Non-members
At
the Door: $10 VO members, $12 Non Members
Call
412-255-0564 for advanced tickets
Prescreening
Party:
Thursday,
April 13
5
– 7 pm
Location
TBD
Advance
tickets only: $50 single, $85 for two
Each night of the Banff Festival will have a different set of films.
For a complete listing, visit www.ventureoutdoors.org.
Additional support comes from the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and WYEP 91.3
fm. Considering joining Venture
Outdoors for the prescreening party, the price of which includes hors
d’oeuvres, drinks, tickets, and reserved seating.
Thursday,
April 27
12
noon Luncheon
1
pm Program
$35
per member
Duquesne
Club
Downtown
$40
per non-member
Over a luncheon, Anne Korin, Co-Director of the Institute for the Analysis
of Global Security and editor of Energy Security will
discuss the relationship of oil and security.
Coming Together to Revitalize Our Communities:
RenewSWPA Cross-Community and
Friday, May 19
7:30 am – 4:30 pm
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
http://www.sustainablepittsburgh.org/2006_Conference/main.htm
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 today.
The annual Smart Growth conference and regional
forums are hosted by, Pennsylvania Department of County and Economic
Development, Regional Coalition of Community Builders, Southwestern
Pennsylvania Commission,
Purchase Table Display Space during the 6th
Annual 2006 Smart Growth Conference
Cost: $150 for shared
table space/ $225 for a whole table
Contact: (412) 258-6646
or info@sustainablepittsburgh.org
For the first time ever
This is a prime
opportunity to show your product to 250 - 300 targeted community leaders, public
officials, city and county planners, community development organizations, and
many, many more! Please call (412) 258-6646 to reserve your table space.
Thursday,
May 25
8:30
am – 4:30 pm
1150
Camp Hill Bypass
Camp
Hill
Explosive growth in wind, solar, and methane generation as well as
biofuels is reshaping
TRANSPORTATION FOR LIVABLE
COMMUNITIES
http://www.sustainablepittsburgh.org/TLC/Route28Letter03_08_06.htm
The FHWA and FTA
jointly find that the planning process in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Region
complies with the metropolitan transportation planning laws and regulations.
As a result, the FHWA and the FTA jointly certify the planning process in
the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area TMA, with four corrective actions, various
recommendations, and additional comments contained within this report.
http://www.spcregion.org/pdf/cert/2005_Certification_Review.pdf
TLC’s comments will focus upon a broad range of
issues including the proposed locally developed human service and transportation
plans and metropolitan and statewide planning.
http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf95/388298_web.pdf
There is so much to think about that you never
thought about," Mrs. Kelly said. "Now when we're driving around I find
myself looking at the way the roads are constructed and what the pillars look
like."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06061/663159.stm
Nonetheless, public-private investments in
transportation infrastructure are a growing trend. And The Macquarie Group, with
offices in 14
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06064/664895.stm
"The [light rail system] is a tremendous
asset for the southern communities," Mr. Davin said. "We want to push
this. As long as the Port Authority is comfortable with the arrangement, this is
the type of development we want to promote to help those communities and help
the Port Authority."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06066/666246.stm
But more stringent guidelines could prompt
coal-fired power plants and other businesses to invest in cleaner technology,
said Rachel Filippini, executive director of Pittsburgh-based Group Against Smog
and Pollution, known as GASP.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06068/667382.stm
But each section is part of the Three Rivers
Heritage Trail system, created by the Friends of the Riverfront. It is the
Friends who find volunteers for clean-up days and simple maintenance, who put up
heritage signs (this is my special interest), who arrange with Dasani for free
bikes, who sponsor the Pittsburgh Triathlon with Seagate, who install plantings
in the Riverfronts Naturally program, who help develop a water trail for
non-motorized boats, and who are devoted to seeing the rail-trails radiate
further into Allegheny County.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06057/660944.stm
The popular appeal of
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06067/666631.stm
With gas prices that reached new,
wallet-straining heights last year, fuel efficiency is back in vogue. Not only
are gas-sipping hybrids flying off the new car lots as fast as they can be
built, but for the first time in decades, legislators -- at least at the state
level -- have been discussing fuel conservation without fearing for their
political lives. In 2005, two Northwest states, for example, decided to adopt
But while improving vehicle efficiency is an
important step, it's only one half of the job. The other half -- less heralded,
but arguably just as important -- is to design cities and neighborhoods so that
we drive less. After all, improving gas mileage doesn't mean much if we have to
travel longer distances to get where we need to go.
http://www.tidepool.org/original_content.cfm?articleid=186247
Renewable energy technologies got a boost
in an Arizona Corporation Commission vote this week. In a state known for its
sunshine but not as well known for large, swiftly moving rivers and streams or
large-scale geothermal opportunities, state regulators set high standards for
renewable energy, hoping to capitalize on
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/news/index.cfm?next=23
If all goes well, Americans will one day have an
alternative source of fuel to power their vehicles -- and one Southern Illinois
University Carbondale professor is leading the way. Tomasz Wiltowski, associate
professor of engineering and associate director of the
Jon Butts knows the array of solar panels on the
roof of his barn won't pay for itself anytime soon. He's content knowing the
less power he buys from Tampa Electric Co. the more greenhouse gases can be kept
out of the atmosphere.
http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBGSR5L4KE.html
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