- Manchester
Craftsmen's Guild and the Persephone Project Present Artist Delanie
Jenkins and Harvest of Art
- Public Health and the Built Environment
-
Recycling Abandoned Mine Drainage into Useful Pigments
- Building
Stronger Organizations: Regional
Coalition of Community Builders Mini-Conference Series
- Three
Free Public Events on Art and Change
- Invitation:
Eliot Coleman Living Agriculture: Moving Toward
Local Food Systems
- Invitation: Flux's 4th Annual Masquerade Ball
- Join GASP For an Exciting Annual Event - Becoming a Health Statistic. Clean Air Under Fire
- Employment
Opportunities from Allegheny County ACORN
- Transportation
Law Tripped by Bad Politics
- Green
Calculators for Local Government - A Free Goldmine
- Planners
Anticipate Strong Population Growth
- Ambridge
Council Meeting to Discuss Brownfield Project
- Chasing
the Rainbow
- The
Malling Of America
- Michigan's
Smart Growth Governor Embraces New Approach to Prosperity
- The
'Burbs Weigh In - Moving from the
City to the Suburbs May Not Be a Ticket to Paradise With a Two-Car Garage
- Managing
Metropolitan Growth: The Twin Cities Experience
-
Radical New Tax Plan Seeks To Limit Sprawl
Manchester
Craftsmen's Guild and the Persephone Project Present Artist Delanie Jenkins
and Harvest of Art
Saturday,
October 11
2:00
pm - 4:00 pm
Frank
Curto Park
Bigelow Boulevard
Please join Delanie Jenkins, Creative Heights Residency artist with Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, as she harvests PHASE III, her garden installation at the Persephone Project's ArtGardens of Pittsburgh at Frank Curto Park. Planted with okra, luffa sponges and cotton (yes, cotton in Pittsburgh!), Jenkins draws upon her agricultural roots and memory in relation to plant material, scent, and sense of place.
The
Creative Heights Residency is generously supported by The Heinz Endowments.
Delanie Jenkins received a 2003 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts.
Directions
to Frank Curto Park:
Located
along Bigelow Boulevard, the park is accessible from the inbound lane
(traveling toward downtown Pittsburgh). The entrance is 1/2 mile from the
light at Bigelow Boulevard and Herron Avenues. Orange posts flank the
entrance.
The
Persephone Project connects the public to art and to the environment by
promoting the garden as contemporary art and recognizing gardeners as
artists. The ArtGardens of Pittsburgh is envisioned as an outdoor
installation art venue devoted to the medium of growing plants. The
Persephone Project is a resident project of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
at Carnegie Mellon University.
Public Health and the Built Environment
Monday,
October 13
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
University of Pittsburgh
Crabtree
Lecture Hall (A115)
Graduate School of Public Health
Fall 2003 Public Health Roundtable Case Series - Public Health and the Built Environment: In Relation to Local, State, and National Government Policies
In
an alarming trend, we have engineered the health-promoting features out of
our environment. The year's annual three-part lecture series provides an
open forum for faculty, students, the health department, and civic leaders
to explore how to best build an environment in which people can experience
healthy living.
Presenter
The
Honorable David J. Steil
Member
of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Legislative
District 31, Bucks County
Committee
memberships: Local Government, Labor Relations, State Government, Finance
Open
Forum
Comment,
discussion and expertise-sharing by faculty, staff and students.
Sponsored by the Center for Public Health Practice www.cphp.pitt.edu.
Recycling
Abandoned Mine Drainage into Useful Pigments
Tuesday,
October 14
Hollow
Oak Land Trust
400
Mill Street, across from Segneri's Restaurant in Coraopolis
Free and open to the public
Contact: 412-264-5354
Have
you ever wondered about the "red water" and crusty materials that
can be seen in abundance in some of the region's smaller streams?
To learn more about them, please plan the evening of Tuesday, 10/14,
to attend an Oak Leaf Forum.
Evan
Verbanic, Business Development Manager of Iron Oxide Recovery, Inc., will
describe the iron oxide that drains from many of the region's abandoned coal
mines. When it is removed from
local streams, iron oxide can be reused as an earth tone colorant in a broad
range of building materials, including paint, wood stain, concrete, clay
plaster, and wall and paving brick.
An
estimated 2,500 miles of streams in Pennsylvania are adversely impacted by
abandoned mine drainage (AMD). Pennsylvania's
long history of coal mining has left a legacy of abandoned mine lands,
refuse banks, old mine shafts, and polluted waterways in 45 of its 67
counties - more than any other state in the nation.
Building
Stronger Organizations: Regional
Coalition of Community Builders Mini-Conference Series
Friday,
October 17
8:15
am - 3:30 pm
Community
College of Beaver County
Center Township, PA
The
Regional Coalition of Community Builders, through the Mini-Conference
Series, strives to connect and engage individuals and organizations around
important themes essential to community building. Join us for one or all of
the series:
Building
Stronger Organizations- Friday, October 17, Center Township
Building
Inclusive Communities - January 9, Pittsburgh (TBA)
Building
Skilled Leadership - February 20, Pittsburgh (TBA)
Building
Alliances, Partnerships, and Coalitions - March 12, Monessen.
The
Monongahela Conference on Post Industrial Community Development
Art,
Ecology, and Planning with people: Influencing Public Places We Care
About.
Thursday,
October 23
4:30
pm - 6:30 pm
Carnegie
Museum of Art Theatre
4400
Forbes Avenue
Lecture/Discussion
- PLATFORM of London
A
five person collective, PLATFORM provokes desire for a democratic
and ecological society. They have developed images of London with its lost
rivers returned and anticipated a very near future where an oil based
global economy is seen as a bad dream. Seemingly impossible visions are
introduced into the space of imagination, where they have the potential to
move into the spaces of desire and reality. PLATFORM works with
economists, community activists and educators. They have been involved in
art and environmental campaigns throughout Europe. Discussion to follow.
Thursday, October 23
6:30
pm - 8:00 pm
Carnegie
Museum of Art Theatre
440
Forbes Avenue
Lecture/Discussion
Authors
Suzi Gablik, Grant Kester and Malcolm Miles will participate
in a panel discussion on the subject of art, change and the public realm. Suzi
Gablik, author of "Has Modernism Failed" and "The
Reenchantment of Art," continues her work as a principal critical
theorist working to define a socially engaged and environmentally
responsible art. Grant Kester, editor of "Art, Activism and
Oppositionality" and author of the soon to be released
"Conversation Pieces: Dialogic Approaches to Modern Art,"
focuses upon the specific ethical and communicative effects of
collaborative interaction on both the artist and their co-participants. Malcolm
Miles, author of "Art Space and the City: Public Art and Urban
Futures" and the soon to be released "Urban Avant Gardes and
Social Transformation: Art, Architecture and Change," is interested
in the momentary realizations of liberation within the routines of
everyday life. Discussion to follow.
Saturday,
October 25
1:30
pm - 3:30 pm
Carnegie Library, Braddock
419
Library Street
River
Town meeting
EVERYONE
is invited to sit, talk and stir up a bit of creative trouble with a group
of artists, activists and environmentalists from Pittsburgh, England, and
the United States. Participants include Jackie Brookner, Angelo Ciotti,
Helen and Newton Harrison, Laurie Palmer, Tom and Connie Merriman,
Platform, Temporary Services, Ground Zero, and many others.
Presented
by 3 Rivers 2nd Nature, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and Carnegie
Mellon University with The Center for Arts in Society, the School of Art,
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, and the Vice Provost for Education
For additional information please contact
Tim
Collins at 412-268-3673 or tcollins@andrew.cmu.edu
Invitation:
Flux's 4th Annual Masquerade Ball
FLUX11: Allentown & Mt. Oliver
Halloween
Night , Friday, October 31
8:00
pm - 1:00 am
$7.00
suggested donation
Be part of the "costumed" fun for this annual event that showcases two of Pittsburgh's greatest neighborhoods. The movable party will be located all along East Warrington Avenue and Brownsville Road. For more information: http://www.fluxpgh.com/allentown.html.
Join
GASP For an Exciting Annual Event -
Becoming
a Health Statistic. Clean Air Under Fire
Saturday,
November 8
5:30
pm - 9:00 pm
Rodef
Shalom, Freehof Hall (across from WQED in Oakland)
4905
Fifth Ave.
$35
GASP member for dinner and lecture
$40
non-GASP member for dinner and lecture
For tickets: call 412-441-6650, or visit http://www.gasp-pgh.org/news/annualmtg2003.html, or email mailto:gasp@gasp-pgh.org
Featured
Speakers:
Devra
Davis,
renowned epidemiologist, former Scholar in Residence at the National
Academy of Sciences and National Chemical Safety & Hazard
Investigation Board member
What
is the role of the air we breathe in the escalating incidences of
respiratory disorders, cancer, and cardiac disease?
Dr.
Davis, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental
Deception and the Battle Against Pollution will highlight scientific
and personal sides of the smog emergency that sickened or killed many
Donora residents and the relevance now, 55 years later.
Nicholas
DiPasquale,
PA Department of Environmental Protection, Deputy Secretary of Air,
Recycling and Radiation Protection.
Pennsylvania's
smog and soot annually trigger an estimated 370,000 asthma attacks and
cause 5,000 deaths. (PennEnvironment)
Deputy Secretary DiPasquale will explore the increased role being taken by Pennsylvania and other states -- in light of federal backsliding -- in making progress towards healthier air. Topics will include the pollution strategies related to ozone and fine particulates, changes to the federal New Source Review program and new Pennsylvania initiatives on renewable and indigenous energy.
Special thanks to
Respironics, Inc.; Giant Eagle; and Cummins Bridgeway, LLC
RESOURCES
Employment Opportunities from Allegheny County ACORN
Pass
the Word!
Transportation
Law Tripped by Bad Politics
By
Neal R. Peirce
Congress
just struck out on the biggest jobs/environment/infrastructure bill before it
-- TEA-21, the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century. Instead of
a full five-year reauthorization, committing $375 billion to build and repair
critical highway, bridge and public transit facilities, the lawmakers came up
with a lame five-month extension of the expiring 1998 statute.
Next spring, in the heat of a contentious presidential election year, they're
unlikely to do much better.
For
the full article:
http://www.postwritersgroup.com/archives/peir0929.htm
©
2003 Washington Post Writers Group
Green Calculators for Local Government - A Free Goldmine
http://www.lgean.org/html/toolbox.cfm
The Local Government
Environmental Assistance Network (LGEAN), developed by The International
City/County Management Association and other national groups, features a huge
on-line toolbox of interactive software for local government elected and
appointed officials, managers and staff. These tools allow local governments
to quickly calculate the money saved by various environmental strategies (such
as solid waste reduction efforts), calculate pollution of various development
scenarios, or help users do calculations necessary to fulfill environmental
reporting requirements.
Minnesota Sustainable
Communities Network
Planners Anticipate Strong Population Growth
"We have to decide what kind of region we want. ... either a trend-based scenario of unconstrained growth, or a focused, fully controlled growth scenario," said Donald K. Carter, managing principal of Urban Design Associates.
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/dailyheadlines/s_157218.html
Ambridge
Council Meeting to Discuss Brownfield Project
"It could be worth twice what we put in it or more," said Borough Manager Pam Caskie. "And the economics aside, it would have an even bigger impact on the community in terms of promoting new growth and bringing a positive outlook back to Ambridge."
http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=10274186&BRD=2305&PAG=461&dept_id=478569&rfi=6
Chasing the Rainbow
Is a gay population an engine
of urban revival? Cities are beginning to think so.
For Cincinnati's gays and lesbians, the stakes are big. But if Florida and Gates are right, the stakes for the city itself may be bigger. Gary Wright, a demographic researcher at Procter & Gamble and one of the leaders of the effort to repeal Article 12 puts it simply: "A city that's inclusive," he argues, "is fundamentally better off."
http://www.governing.com/articles/10gays.htm
PLANetizen Newswire
The
Malling Of America
The unabated malling of
America is a trend that may end badly -- for communities and households.
"In 1986 there were
28,496 shopping centers in the U.S., boasting 3.5 billion square feet of
space. Today there are 46,438 malls and such with 5.8 billion square feet of
space... The number of malls is growing faster than the number of
babies."
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/streetlife/0,15704,491672,00.html
PLANetizen Newswire
Michigan's Smart Growth Governor Embraces New Approach to Prosperity
In a sharp departure from the policies of her predecessor, former Republican Governor John Engler, Michigan's Democratic Governor Jennifer Granholm earlier this year avoided the reluctant, Republican-dominated state Legislature and worked with local officials to establish a new regional transit agency for southeast Michigan. She then reached agreement with Republicans to delay half of the new road and highway expansion projects they wanted and invest the savings in fixing existing highways first. She argues that this brand new direction in transportation policy - less new concrete, better public transit choices - would help to improve Michigan's economic competitiveness. But Ms. Granholm's most striking view by far is her insistence that one of the best ways to grow Michigan's economy is to protect its natural beauty and reign in sprawl - the essence of Smart Growth.In mid-August, the 26-member council delivered its recommendations. Speaking with near unanimity, the council said the state should:
·
Repair and modernize existing roads before building new ones.
·
Protect Michigan's natural environment as a foundation for
economic growth.
·
Direct public spending for roads, sewers, and other construction
toward, not away from, cities and towns.
http://www.mlui.org/transportation/fullarticle.asp?fileid=16570
PLANetizen
Newswire
The
'Burbs Weigh In - Moving
from the City to the Suburbs May Not Be a Ticket to Paradise With a Two-Car
Garage
Fleeing the crowded, polluted city to the bucolic suburbs was supposed to be good for your health. New research is showing that's not necessarily true. According to studies from the United States to Belgium, a major factor contributing to the worldwide obesity epidemic is a lack of natural exercise-i.e., walking-which has been exacerbated as populations spread out from city centers. Suburbs, it seems, can make you swell.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/972951.asp?cp1=1
PLANetizen Newswire
Managing
Metropolitan Growth: The Twin Cities Experience
This overview of growth policy in the Twin Cities region recounts the evolution of a number of policy tools-for infrastructure, parks and open space, and transportation-and their interaction.
In fact, both the market forces and the policy dynamics associated with metropolitan growth are much more subtle than either of these two extreme arguments suggest. And so metropolitan growth must be approached with a set of tools that recognizes market reality-but acknowledging that government policy also plays a role in setting up the market.
http://www.brook.edu/es/urban/publications/200309_fulton.htm
PLANetizen Newswire
Radical
New Tax Plan Seeks To Limit Sprawl
Winnipeg Mayor Glen Murray
proposed a new tax plan that radically shifts the tax burden with the aim of
limiting sprawl and increasing transit use.
"The plan would shift
the tax burden from people and businesses who own property to those who use
services, and would also freeze recreation fees, reduce transit fares by 50
per cent and see businesses pay about 34 per cent less in taxes...The city
would be able to make desperately needed investments in public infrastructure
such as streets, sewers, and bridges...Another aim of the city planners is to
restructure the tax system to support policy goals such as avoiding urban
sprawl and encouraging transit use..
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030924/UTAXXN/TPNational/TopStories
PLANetizen Newswire
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