Sustainable Pittsburgh
Join fellow community justice and MOVEMENT members/LEADERS from across Southwest PA for a two-day intensive training on Organizing and Direct action to make change! Partake in a hands-on learning environment to empower leaders with tools, techniques, innovations and old-school best practices to generate deep community engagement.
At the end of July, power grid operator PJM experienced record-high costs to secure the electric grid capacity needed to ensure stable operations. Prices spiked, yielding a 9-fold cost increase for the 13-state territory, saddling consumers with a $15 billion bill for 2025-2026. These record costs for capacity expose serious implications for the reliability of […]
Join Evergreen Action, Ohio River Valley Institute, PA DEP, Conservation Voters of PA, and labor and industry groups to discuss a game-changing Pennsylvania pollution reduction program that will create upward of 6,000 new jobs! You’ll hear from: By tackling the state’s biggest source of climate pollution, RISE PA will make sure Pennsylvania residents experience improved […]
This is an initiative of the Data Justice in Pittsburgh’s Black Neighborhoods project. Data Justice in Pittsburgh’s Black Neighborhoods is a project of the Black Equity Coalition (BEC) that aims to build decision-making power for Black Pittsburghers and those that have been most-impacted by residential segregation and disinvestment by creating public processes and public power […]
Presented by the SWPA Municipal Project Hub Presentation and discussion of the Impact of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Tax Credits on Local Governments and Other Tax-Exempt Entities by representatives of the United State Department of the Treasury and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Governor's Office, Critical Investments. The IRA's Elective Payment provision (also called Direct Pay) […]
Whether we live in suburban towns or city neighborhoods, everyone in Allegheny County deserves safe, reliable, dignified access to the places we need to go. Across the county, 30% of the population does not drive a car. The Week Without Driving is a nationwide movement to link the needs of disabled individuals and people of […]