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Community Recognition Program

Why get certified as a Sustainable Pennsylvania community?

Working with municipal staff, elected leaders, residents, and businesses, Pennsylvania municipalities can chart a course for creating a community that offers opportunity for everyone. The Sustainable Pennsylvania municipal certification is a tool municipal and community leadership can use to assess, plan, and implement sustainability policies and practices, and foster innovation. 

  • Assess your municipality’s sustainability related policies and practices, create a plan for future actions, and earn recognition in the process.
  • Adopt and implement policies to improve resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and resilience to disasters.
  • Reduce the adverse environmental impact of businesses, residents, and others within the community, by paying special attention to energy use, transportation, land use, and waste and materials management.
  • Expand and maintain housing choices and ensure everyone has access to adequate, safe, and affordable housing and other essential services. 
  • Build sustainable, resilient, and energy-efficient public and private buildings that utilize local materials.
  • Ensure everyone has access to safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable transport systems. Improving road safety with a focus on the needs of vulnerable populations, pedestrians, bicycles, and those using mobility aids. 
  • Provide universal access to safe, inclusive, and accessible, green and public spaces, for all members of the community. 
  • Support positive economic, social, and environmental links between urban, suburban, and rural areas by strengthening regional community development planning.

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8-5-2022

Dash to Designation Recognition

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7-22-2022

Sustainable PGH’s Update on CONNECT’s Climate Action Plan with Senior Program Manager, Jim Price

Watch Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Update on CONNECT’s Climate Action Plan with Senior Program Manager, Jim Price. On Thursday, May 19th, the municipal members of the Congress of Neighboring Communities, CONNECT, unanimously …

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7-8-2022

Dash to Designation: Complete the On Ramp to be featured in SPI and across Sustainable Pittsburgh social media

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Sustainable PA Municipal Equity Toolkit

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May 25, 2022

Sustainable Pittsburgh: "Sustainable Pittsburgh officially reopens acclaimed programs to support and recognize sustainability progress"

November 12, 2021

Sustainable Pittsburgh: "CEOs for Sustainability 2021 C-Suite Summit"

June 4, 2021

Pittsburgh Business Times: "Advocates say RGGI needed to energize Pennsylvania economy"

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