Sustainability News
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Sustainability, innovation key to developer’s plans for former Hazelwood LTV site
“Within the next week or so, RIDC plans to award a contract to begin the remediation of the site — the next step in plans to house three buildings geared…
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To Create A Carbon-Neutral Restaurant, First You Have To Measure The Footprint
“While lots of online calculators are available for restaurants to try to track their footprint and impact, most only cover surface level math for daily operations, things like kilowatt-hours of…
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What artificial intelligence means for sustainability
“This analysis below, which measures mentions of AI in corporate sustainability reports and CDP filings, can help us start to answer the question: What does AI mean for sustainability? ….
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Environmentalist Patricia DeMarco’s new book puts Pittsburgh at the center of creating a sustainable future
“There are ways that we can thrive as an economy and as a society without destroying [nature], but rather preserving it. So then the pathways become things like renewable energy…
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The Uninhabitable Earth
Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. Read more
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Text Messages Engage Residents in Community Planning
As communities work through the planning and development process, residents are increasingly able to make comments via text message. City officials can receive a digital response to “what’s missing” in…
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Creating a Better Community Through Text Messages
“As cities make their data more transparent and accountable, this project in New York found one way to use technology to engage the residents in the planning process—by prompting locals…
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America Is Now a ‘Second Tier’ Country
SPI produces the report in part to help city, state, and national policymakers diagnose and (ideally) address their most pressing challenges. The group’s chief executive, Michael Green, said America ‘is failing…
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Larimar Community Among Two New Partners Selected for National Equity-Focused Resilience Program
“The Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) today announced two community-based organizations joining its Partnership for Resilient Communities (PRC). The organizations will implement projects to make underserved neighborhoods more resilient to…
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Reminder: June 15 deadline for solar discounts with Solarize Allegheny
“Solarize Allegheny began in February 2015 and since that time, nearly 1,000 people have signed up for solar quote through its program. Fifty (50) people have gone solar so far…