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Over 50 Main Street businesses earn Sustainable Business Designation through Sustainable Pittsburgh program

In late 2010, Sustainable Pittsburgh, in partnership with Town Center Associates, launched the Sustainable Business Designation program to advance sustainable practices among small, local businesses around Allegheny and Beaver County’s Main Streets. The program recognizes businesses for implementing sustainability actions that are simultaneously good for their bottom line, the environment, and the social fabric of their communities. To date, over fifty businesses have earned sustainable business designation through this program.

To create the program, Sustainable Pittsburgh developed a short checklist of sustainability criteria for businesses. These criteria include provisions related to energy conservation, waste reduction, stormwater management, land use policies, and alternative transportation, among other sustainability-related topics.

Sustainable Business Designation is reflected for each qualifying business in the business directory for their town, soon to be available at www.DowntownFirst.net, as well as through a certificate of acknowledgment and window display stickers. The designation helps customers identify and choose businesses that are committed to sustainability as a core principle to their operations and business model. Businesses can earn an additional, Local Business, designation in the directory as well.

The program is intended to inspire local, small businesses to apply sustainability practices and increase vitality among the region’s rich fabric of small towns and neighborhoods. If you and your business are interested in signing up for the program, visit: www.downtownfirst.net/sustainable-businesses.

Sustainable Pittsburgh is proud of the businesses who have shown their leadership in earning sustainable designation, becoming stars in their communities. Click here to view a list of businesses that have earned the Sustainable Business Designation.

Resources

REGISTER NOW - Sustainability and Healthcare Series Workshop 3
Understanding Patient and Family Centered Care for Sustainable Healthcare

Thursday, October 6
4:30 pm – 9:00 pm
New Hazlett Theater, North Side
Cost: $25 for C4S/Sustainable Pittsburgh Members for full event
$30 Nonmembers for full event
Students: Special Rate
Opening video screening is free
Light Refreshments Provided
More information and registration

This third workshop in a five-part series on Sustainability and Healthcare focuses on policy—-and how it can lead to a more sustainable healthcare industry. Innovative programs are being developed in response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), signaling this recent legislation is a key driver of policy change in America.

“Understanding Patient and Family Centered Care for Sustainable Healthcare” features an abbreviated screening of Remaking American Medicine along with two panel discussions focused on PPACA’s impact on healthcare institutions and individuals, respectively. The event provides an opportunity to understand how shifts in the healthcare system to more patient and family centered practices present challenges to healthcare institutions, individuals, and the traditional role of corporations as the gateways to access and management of healthcare benefits.

Southwestern Pennsylvania’s leading position in the delivery and quality of healthcare will continue as this region’s patients and organizations begin to understand the sustainability-related benefits and responsibilities that come from policy innovations that: increase access to healthcare, require greater community engagement, rest upon better communication practices, stand upon measurable, improved health outcomes, and challenge current service practices. The event ends with a call to action for attendees to become more aware of their rights and responsibilities in this dynamic period for healthcare services.

Who should attend?
This event is open to all individuals working in the healthcare industry, in addition to individuals interested in learning more patient rights, equity, and advocacy.

These Sustainability and Healthcare workshops advance the mutually reinforcing agendas of sustainability and healthcare. The emphasis for each event involves articulating the health outcomes, healthcare benefits, and business case, as well as best practices, resources, examples, and how to get started. See what happened at previous Sustainability and Healthcare workshops:
Strategic Environmental Solutions - July 21
Making the Business Case - June 2

Creating Sustainable Communities Conference

Thursday, November 3
7:30 am — 4:00 pm
Point Park University
Registration: $30
Questions? Contact Hannah Hardy at (412) 481–9400 or hhardy@pecpa.org Registration information and conference schedule will be available in late August at:
www.dcnr.state.pa.us/conservationscience/sustainablelands/conferences/index.htm
This conference qualifies for 5 recertification credits for the PLNA Pennsylvania Certified Horticulturist and the PLANET Landscape Industry Certified Technician, as well as 5 continuing education credits through ASLA.

Join conference organizers at Point Park University in downtown Pittsburgh for a conference that promotes green infrastructure, healthy communities and low-cost land management practices for government officials, park managers, landscape architects, planners and anyone else interested in balancing human needs with natural resource protection.

EVENT ORGANIZERS: Allegheny County, Allegheny County Conservation District, City of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources, Friends of the Riverfront, Pa. Environmental Council, Penn State Cooperative Extension, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Sustainable Pittsburgh, Western Pa. Conservancy

SAVE THE DATE: 11th Annual SWPA Smart Growth Conference “Smart Growth is Smart Business”

Tuesday, December 13
Downtown Pittsburgh - Location TBD
Featuring: Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, CityView

This year's conference will launch a 'businesses for smart growth' initiative in southwestern Pennsylvania. Filling a strategic gap, the event will solidify the bottom line business case and economic imperative for regional smart growth and galvanize business constituency.

Business leaders around the nation increasingly recognize that regional growth and development patterns -- guided by principles of smart growth and sustainability -- improve quality of life, lessen the cost of doing business, increase profitability, help reduce tax and infrastructure costs, and contribute to talent recruitment and retention.

Time is ripe for a business initiative focused on advancing our region's goals for more efficient and sustainable development to spur economic prosperity and extend this region's signature livability to more persons. The bottom line business case of smart growth is apparent.

Mark your calendars as the Smart Growth Conference is an invitation to address the ways smart growth is smart business:
- engage the private sector in harnessing smart growth market opportunity
- explore innovative means of ensuring financial feasibility of sustainable development
- channel the pattern and character of growth and development to improve productivity and hasten regional sustainability that protects and enhances business investments
- opportunities to have an impact on state, regional, and local planning and programming
- incentives to level the field for development and redevelopment to revitalize our existing communities
- the new economics nexus of land use, transportation, housing, and development

Keynote speaker Henry Cisneros is the executive chairman of CityView, an urban institutional investment firm which finances commercial and residential developers. His governmental experience and dedication to America's cities are important features of CityView's "Smart Capital for Smart Growth" strategy focused on urban solutions. Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in New York, Dallas and San Antonio, CityView has invested in and developed more than $2 billion in real estate assets for 45 projects in 30 markets across 13 states since 2003. CityView is one of the nation's premier institutional investment firms focused on urban real estate, incity housing, and metropolitan infrastructure and is a fully-integrated operating company with an active management approach. Prior to establishing CityView, Henry Cisneros served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was the four-term Mayor of San Antonio, Texas.

The 11th Annual SWPA Smart Growth Conference is presented by:
Allegheny Conference on Community Development; Green Building Alliance; NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, Pittsburgh Chapter; Pittsburgh Technology Council; Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission; Sustainable Pittsburgh; Urban Land Institute Pittsburgh District Council

Allegheny Green + Innovation Festival

Saturday, September 24
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Hartwood Amphitheater, Middle Road
Rain or shine
More information

Come to the Allegheny Green & Innovation Festival at Hartwood Acres and learn about sustainable living and innovation in all forms. This zero-waste event will include earth-friendly food & product vendors, crafters, green living demonstrations, musical entertainment, children’s activities & much more! NEW FOR 2011 – This event will be held on the same day as the event Hay Day (a family focused event that draws approximately 3,000 attendees).

Ohiopyle Sustainable Energy Fair

Saturday, October 8
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Ohiopyle-Stewart Community Center, Ohiopyle, PA
For more information, or to sign-up as an exhibitor, please contact Lindsay Baxter at (412) 481-9400 or lbaxter@pecpa.org.
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Before cold weather returns, enjoy an autumn day in the Laurel Highlands and join the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) to learn more about how you can be a wise energy user! Exhibitors from clean energy businesses and non-profits will be on hand to provide information about energy conservation, energy efficiency, and sources of renewable energy, including biomass, solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower. This event builds on interest generated through the successful completion of multiple environmental initiatives in Ohiopyle, such as the Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Initiative (CLI) and the green streets stormwater management project. It also helps to implement the Ohiopyle Joint Master Plan, completed in March 2010, which includes a brief overview of opportunities for alternative energy production. The energy fair is sponsored by the West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund and jointly planned by the Borough of Ohiopyle, Ohiopyle State Park, DCNR, Backyard Gardens, Student Conservation Association, Trail Towns Corps, National Historic Road, the Fayette County Redevelopment Authority, and PEC.

The Third State of the Watershed

Saturday, September 24
8:30 am - 3:00 pm
UPC/Class Building, the Former Center for Creative Play, 1400 South Braddock Ave, Pittsburgh 15218
Tickets: $10 for NMRWA members and students with a valid ID; $25 for all others
More information and registration
Parking is on site.
A continental breakfast and lunch will be included.

Join the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association (NMRWA) and keynote speaker, George Hawkins, General Manager of DC Water, for a morning of fascinating presentations on the issues of clean water and the importance of green solutions.

Stay for the afternoon workshops on stream sampling, native seed collecting, rain garden construction, and a bicycle tour of NMRWA's green infrastructure projects. Bring your bikes and helmets!

Public hearing on Proposed Oil and Natural Gas Air Pollution Standards

Tuesday, September 27
9:00 am - 8 pm
David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Rooms 315–316, 1000 Ft. Duquesne Blvd., Downtown Pittsburgh 15222
Contact: Joan Rogers (rogers.joanc@epa.gov) by 4 p.m. on Sept. 23 to register to tell your story or share your opinion.
More information about the public hearing
Information from the Clean Air Council

The Clean Air Council invites you to participate in this public hearing on Oil and Natural Gas Air Pollution Standards.

Many of the air pollution sources associated with fracking, gas exploration, production and processing are currently unregulated. The associated processes and pieces of equipment release air pollutants known to be harmful to public health and the environment.

For instance, VOCs mix with air, sunlight and nitrogen oxides to form ground-level ozone (smog) and harmful airborne particulates. Benzene and formaldehyde have been linked to elevated levels of cancer and neurological health issues.

The EPA has proposed a suite of regulations that will reduce this pollution. For further information on these amendments or the public hearing, please contact Matt Walker from the Clean Air Council at mwalker@cleanair.org.

Rachel's Sustainable Feast

Saturday, October 1
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Springdale High School, Springdale, PA
Tickets: Non-members: $15 || Members: $12 || Door: $20
Purchase Tickets

Join the Rachel Carson Homestead Association for its fifth annual Sustainable Feast! The Feast will showcase sustainable and locally sourced dishes prepared by Southwestern Pennsylvania’s most popular and talented chefs, such as Six Penn’s Kevin Klingensmith, Avenue B’s Jenn and Chris Bonfili, Park Bruges’ Kevin Hunninen, Tin Front Café’s Ellie Gumlock, and many more. In addition to mouth-watering cuisine, the event will also feature music, a farmers' market, eco-friendly crafters, artisans and businesses, and politicians and advocacy groups who work to protect our land, water and air.

The fifth annual Rachel’s Sustainable Feast is a culinary festival celebrating the legacy of Rachel Carson. This festival aims to introduce visitors to as many of the terrific environment and conservation groups, the top chefs who are committed to buying locally, plus the great local farmers who are either growing organically or sustainably, providing fresh, nutritious food for the region while conserving the land and soil for future generations.

Healthy Body, Healthy Home, Healthy Planet workshop

Tuesday October 4
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
CCI Center, 64 S. 14th Street, South Side 15203
Cost: $20 per participant or $25 per couple
To register, please contact Sarah Alessio Shea at saraha@ccicenter.org, or by calling (412) 488-7490 ext. 236, or online.

This workshop, presented by the Pennsylvania Resources Council, encourages action around the issue of carcinogens and toxins that people come into contact with through products used and food eaten. The workshop also focuses on the consequences of these toxins on individuals' health and how to can avoid exposure. The program provides the public with practical solutions such as safe alternatives and healthy lifestyle choices.

In an effort to reduce one’s exposure to toxins and to reduce the amount of toxins in our environment, all workshop participants will receive a non-toxic green cleaning kit.

When Affirmative Action Was White: Further Reflections

Wednesday, October 12
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work Conference Center, 2017 Cathedral of Learning, 20th Floor
Lunch will be provided; registration is not required.
More information: (412) 624-7382 / www.crsp.pitt.edu

As part of the Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney PC Fall 2011 Speaker Series, the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work, Center on Race and Social Problems, presents Ira Katznelson, Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University in discussing: "When Affirmative Action Was White: Further Reflections."

Ira Katznelson is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University. His books include Liberal Beginnings: A Republic for the Moderns (Cambridge University Press, 2008; co-authored with Andreas Kalyvas); When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (W.W. Norton, 2005); and Desolation and Enlightenment: Political Knowledge after Total War, Totalitarianism, and the Holocaust (Columbia University Press, 2003). He is currently completing Fear Itself, a book dealing with American democracy from the New Deal to the Cold War, and Liberal Reason, a collection of his essays on the character of modern social knowledge. Professor Katznelson was President of the American Political Science Association for 2005-2006. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Register Now! Building Change Conference

A convergence for social justice
October 13-15, 2011
Senator John Heinz Regional History Center
More information

Building Change will gather grassroots organizations and citizens from across Southwestern Pennsylvania to address a wide range of social, economic, and environmental issues through a series of forums, workshops, and panel and roundtable discussions. Other activities include the multi-venue Building Change Film Festival; the 7 Pathways of Change Social Justice Arts Show; a Youth Leadership track for 350 high school students; and the Pathways to Change: Performances and Awards which will highlight local Champions of Change.

The featured keynote speaker for Building Change is world-renowned Native American activist and environmentalist Winona LaDuke. Ms. LaDuke is a distinguished author and founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project in Minnesota and the Indigenous Women's Network. She has appeared in numerous documentaries, has been the recipient of the Reebok Human Rights Award, and was named Woman of Year by Ms. Magazine. Ms. LaDuke was also the Green Party vice presidential running mate to Ralph Nader in the 2000 presidential election.

Wild Resource Festival

Saturday, October 15
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Point State Park, Downtown Pittsburgh
Free
No registration is necessary. The event will be held rain or shine.
More information

DCNR's Wild Resource Conservation Program is holding a Wild Resource Festival at Point State Park on October 15. The festival is designed to bring the state’s leading scientists and conservation organizations together with the people that support DCNR's work, the citizens of Pennsylvania. The festival provides children, families, and wildlife enthusiasts, young and old, with a front-row seat to view PA’s non-game animals and plants. There will be many interactive, hands on activities to engage the children as well!

cityLIVE! 38 - Looking forward to Immigration (with Rich and Raja)

October 18
6:30 pm
New Hazlett Theater, North Side
Click to RSVP

Pittsburgh is less diverse than 98 out of 100 of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States, according to the 2010 census - "whiter even than the Amish country around Lancaster, the Mormon population center of Salt Lake City, Midwest agrarian capitals such as Des Moines, Iowa, and far more isolated places like Boise, Idaho," says Gary Rotstein of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "How does a region built on immigration, albeit from previous centuries, come to have in 2011 such a small share of people of color?"

On October 18, cityLIVE! and Vibrant Pittsburgh will host a conversation between candidates D. Raja, Rich Fitzgerald and you, the audience, on the status of foreign born talent and diversity in the region. Economic development is at the heart of this discussion. For instance, 25 percent of U.S. business owners in the technology and engineering sector are foreign born, as are the owners of 24 percent of patent applications filed. Moderated by Melanie Harrington, CEO of Vibrant Pittsburgh, hear how Allegheny County's future leaders plan to tackle these issues in their future role as Allegheny County Executive.

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Donate through Pittsburgh Gives on Tuesday, October 4

The Pittsburgh Foundation will hold the Day of Giving 2011 on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 from 12:00 a.m. until 11:59:59 p.m. This is an opportunity to find detailed information about Western Pennsylvania’s nonprofits, including Sustainable Pittsburgh, and make a donation.

The steps are simple. Find a nonprofit. Learn about its mission, programs, leadership and financial information. Become an informed Donor. All donations during that 24-hour period will receive a pro-rated portion of the match pool.

Pittsburgh Green Workplace Challenge is Underway

Dennis Yablonsky, CEO, Allegheny Conference on Community Development says, “The Allegheny Conference is pleased to endorse the Pittsburgh Green Workplace Challenge and encourages the region’s businesses to participate. This Challenge signals Pittsburgh’s continuing transformation to a more sustainable region following the hosting of The Pittsburgh Summit in 2009 and World Environment Day in 2010.”

The GWC steps beyond national trendsetters in enabling businesses to actively track and receive credit and verification for their green actions. Until now there has not been a significant regional initiative that permits companies to measure their energy efficiency efforts, using agreed upon national standards, in ways that permit them to communicate their achievements with credibility

Completing the Fleet: The 10-year road to outfitting 100 percent of Port Authority buses with bike racks

After 10 full years of dedicated advocacy and leadership, every bus now has a bike rack. Here’s the story.

Get involved with the Breathe Project

The Breathe Project is a coalition of residents, businesses, and government in southwestern Pennsylvania who are working together to clean up our air for the health of our families and economy. Despite improvements over the past few decades, our region’s air still ranks as some of the worst in the nation, causing serious health impacts in our communities including higher rates of asthma, heart disease, and lung cancer. But there are solutions. If you care about the air you breathe, we invite you to join us. Because our life – and way of life – depends on clean air.

Sustainable Pittsburgh is pleased to be a supporter of this campaign.

Tax Plan to Turn Old Buildings ‘Green’ Finds Favor

A business consortium that includes Lockheed Martin and Barclays bank plans to invest as much as $650 million over the next few years to slash the energy consumption of buildings in the Miami and Sacramento areas. It is the most ambitious effort yet to jump-start a national market for energy upgrades that many people believe could eventually be worth billions.

Focusing mainly on commercial property at first, the group plans to exploit a new tax arrangement that allows property owners to upgrade their buildings at no upfront cost, typically cutting their energy use and their utility bills by a third. The building owners would pay for the upgrades over five to 20 years through surcharges on their property-tax bills, but that would be less than the savings.

State of the Climate Global Analysis, August 2011

The average global land surface temperature for August 2011 was the second warmest August, behind 1998, since records began in 1880. The temperature was 0.84°C (1.51°F) above the 20th century average. This is similar to the July 2011 temperature anomaly and continues a streak of 142 consecutive months (since November 2000) that the monthly global land temperature has been above the long-term average. Warmer-than-average conditions occurred across most of North America and the northern half of South America, southern Greenland, eastern Russia, Mongolia, most of Europe, northern Africa to Southwest Asia, and southern Australia. Cooler-than-average regions around the globe included western Russia, the United Kingdom, Alaska, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. The Northern Hemisphere had its fourth warmest August land temperature on record, at 0.90°C (1.62°F) above average. Several all-time temperature records were broken in the southern United States and across large parts of eastern and southern Europe as large domes of high pressure settled over those regions. It was the second warmest August on record for the United States, at 1.6°C (3.0°F) above the national average for the month.

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Jim Woolsey on the Externalities of Our Oil Addiction

The health costs of our petroleum habit start at $64 billion. Woolsey quoted some research by former White House counsel C. Boyden Gray. Gray's research, published in the Texas Review of Law and Politics, concerns the decades-old substitution of the aromatic benzene as a replacement for lead to prevent "knocking" or premature detonation in gasoline engines. Woolsey suggested that the next time you fill up your gas tank and smell that "sweet smell," realize that it's benzene -- it's "the smell of cancer" and "the smell of cardiopulmonary disease." Gray's research places the cost of benzene's health consequences as ranging from $64 billion to $250 billion.

Candidates for Local Office Pledge Excellence

With less than 8 weeks remaining until the November 8, 2011 General Election, candidates for local elected office are taking Local Government Academy’s Pledge to Excellence, demonstrating to voters their commitment to good government by pledging to take the Newly Elected Officials Course if successful in their bid for public office.

The list of candidates who have signed the Pledge to Excellence is available on the Academy’s web site. Candidates may sign the Pledge on-line.

“We encourage candidates to sign the Pledge to Excellence as a way to demonstrate their commitment to good government through education and professional development,” said Local Government Academy (LGA) Executive Director Susan Hockenberry. “LGA developed the pledge as a service to citizens and candidates who expressed an interest in establishing higher expectation for local office holders.”

By signing the Pledge to Excellence, candidates commit to the following principles, to the best of their abilities:
· I recognize that leadership requires a dedication to life-long learning
· I recognize that local government is a unique environment and that citizens entrust me with a special obligation that requires me to become as knowledgeable as possible to perform at the highest level of public service.
· I commit to obtaining the highest level of knowledge and expertise on the issues impacting local government and the citizens of my community
· If elected, I will complete the Newly Elected Officials Course and further commit to ongoing professional development within the means available to me and my community.

For more information about the Pledge to Excellence, the Newly Elected Officials Course, please visit Local Government Academy’s web site.

Mark Your Calendars: The Newly Elected Officials Course begins November 19, 2011 at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center. Candidates may pre-register for the Newly Elected Officials Course.

Why Is the U.S. Losing the Green Race?

While China's rising demand for oil is a huge driver in the Latin American boom, the Chinese government is also providing huge subsidies to its green technology industries. In Europe, Germany is the world's first major renewable energy economy. The United States seems to be lagging in this competition.

Why is that, since the U.S. has often been the global innovator in emerging fields? What should the government be doing differently?

Cincinnati Seeks Green Solutions to a Two-Billion-Gallon Problem

....Lyons said the EPA is not only telling communities that they have to mitigate and clean up stormwater overflows, but the agency is also encouraging green infrastructure. "Cincinnati is looking at it from a different perspective. MSDGC is mandated to spend several millions of dollars to reduce overflows in Lick Run to solve our CSO problem in Lower Mill Creek. We can do the tunnel, or we can spend the money and achieve something beyond our reduction goal, potentially at lower cost. "The Lick Run alternative could be transformational for the urban core neighborhoods. We are not just talking about a few rain gardens, but an investment that could achieve favorable outcomes in addition to meeting regulatory obligations, an investment that could serve as a catalyst for public and private development," continued Lyons. He added there is much to be said for opting for the more sustainable option that would add so much visible physical beauty to South Fairmont. MSDGC has initiated several other pilot stormwater control projects in the neighborhood, including large-scale rain gardens, bioswales, pervious paving and tree plantings.

Apply to be part of the 2012 Group Study Exchange With Seoul, Korea - Green Building and Land Use

Each year Rotary District 7300 engages in a professional, cultural, and civic exchange program with another Rotary District with the intent to increase international understanding, expose young professionals to other world cultures and meet their counterparts in other nations, and to explore development or humanitarian projects. The focus for the 2012 Group Study Exchange (GSE) is green building and land use. Click "More" for eligibility criteria and other details.

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Sustainable Pittsburgh benefits from support ($1,000 and up) in 2011 from:

Allegheny County - Dan Onorato, County Executive
Bayer Corporation
Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation
BNY Mellon
Dollar Bank
FedEx Ground
The Heinz Endowments
Highmark
Elsie H. Hillman Foundation
Richard King Mellon Foundation
Pashek Associates LTD
Pittsburgh Quarterly
PNC Financial Services Group
Port Authority of Allegheny County
UPMC


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