Sustainable Pittsburgh

REGISTER TODAY! Sustainable Pittsburgh Challenge "Getting Started" Workshop
2018-01-18 09:30 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - East Liberty, 130 S. Whitfield Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Sustainable Pittsburgh invites you to attend the first workshop of the Sustainable Pittsburgh Challenge (previously called the Green Workplace Challenge) on Thursday, January 18. During this workshop, Sustainable Pittsburgh will provide an overview of the program, including new features for 2018. Experienced competitors will have the opportunity to develop a 2018 competition strategy, while new participants will take part in an orientation to the program. Lunch is included.
Topics to be covered:

How-To Guide for Getting Started: Learn how to sign up (if you haven’t already), how to submit actions, and how to track your action submissions using your account on the SP Challenge website.
Benefits: The SP Challenge team will provide an overview of the program’s benefits, and will invite past participants to share how their organizations have benefitted.
Resources Available: The SP Challenge strives to connect its participants to the many resources available in southwestern PA and beyond. Learn about some of these resources, and how you can apply them to reach your sustainability goals.
Tools: The SP Challenge offers a variety of tools to track and measure your progress throughout the competition. Get an overview of the tools we’ll use, and how you can leverage them to maximize your performance in 2018.
Mentorship and Networking: Competitors and Self-Performers will have the opportunity to connect with and learn from other SP Challenge participants during this workshop, and throughout the competition.
Develop a 2018 Competition Strategy: Sustainable Pittsburgh offers you the chance to get organized early in the competition. This workshop will include a breakout session during which you can get started on your winning strategy, and get answers to your most burning questions. During the breakout session, we’ll help you identify which actions to start with, and can even help you submit your first action!

REGISTER HERE TO ATTEND THE JANUARY 18 WORKSHOP
The Sustainable Pittsburgh Challenge is a yearlong, free, and friendly competition for businesses, nonprofits, universities, schools, and local governments in southwestern Pennsylvania to track and receive recognition for their sustainability actions. The deadline to sign up for the Sustainable Pittsburgh Challenge is January 31, 2018. All are welcome to attend the workshop.

EcoInnovation District Open House
2018-01-17 17:30 - 19:00 | 544 Miltenberger St., 544 Miltenberger Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
On November 29th, the Department of City Planning (DCP) and Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) hosted a public design charrette to reimagine the publicly owned properties surrounding the intersection of Fifth and Dinwiddie. Over 50 attendees spent their morning working together in groups to develop designs consistent with the recently adopted Uptown / West Oakland EcoInnovation District Plan.
At the January open house you can review and comment on those designs and examples from other cities to determine what aspects are best suited for Uptown. Your input will help shape a request for proposals the URA will release for development on this land. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
This event is in a wheelchair accessible building. Accommodations can be made as needed if requested one week prior to the meeting. Send requests to Richard.Meritzer@pittsburghpa.gov.
Read the Charrette blog post.

This is an informal event. Arrival and departure is at your convenience.

WEBINAR: Driving Business Toward Racial Equity
2018-01-17 13:00 - 14:00
Steering businesses toward equity—from outside advocacy and by changing internal business practices to create tangible business value with customers, employees, and suppliers from communities of color—is fundamental to building an equitable economy. That is why PolicyLink and FSG teamed up to guide companies in assessing and actively promoting racial equity in every aspect of their business operations and strategy. Our goal is to help the corporate sector to affirmatively advance racial equity through its products, services, supply chain, human resources, philanthropy, and public policy positions.
Please join PolicyLink and FSG for a webinar ??to explore the connections between inside and outside strategies for getting business leaders to embrace a racial equity agenda and share advice and feedback about this important effort.
Featured Speakers:

Angela Glover Blackwell, PolicyLink
Mark Kramer, FSG
Adams Kanyagia, FSG
Darrin Redus, Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
Carmen Rojas, The Workers Lab

Read the report, Competitive Advantage of Racial Equity, and the accompanying op-ed in Fortune.

Steel City Codefest - Tech Chats
2018-01-17 08:00 - 09:30 | The Millvale Moose, 112 E Sherman Street, Millvale, PA|PA|PA|PA
Coming in January, the Steel City Codefest team will be holding Tech Chats around the city. These events will provide an opportunity for local government and nonprofits to discuss their technology challenges with a panel of experts. Participants are encouraged to come prepared with technical questions or issues to discuss. Each nonprofit/government organization will be given individual time with the experts. The experts will discuss potential technology solutions to your issues, focusing on things that are free or low cost. All events will be the same so you only need to participate in one.

Steel City Codefest - Tech Chats
2018-01-16 16:00 - 17:30 | Google, 6425 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA|PA|PA|PA

Transparency is the New Black: Education Session on Ingredient Disclosure, Red List and Material Health
2018-01-11 14:00 - 17:00 | Green Building Alliance, 33 Terminal Way, Suite 331, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Come learn about the growing trend in the building industry around transparency of product ingredients and material health. Industry expert Andrea Cooper, who leads the Declare program and Materials Petal for the International Living Future Institute, will be visiting Pittsburgh to shed light on the new ingredient transparency requirements of various green building rating systems and how you can position your company to gain access to this market opportunity. Andrea will provide advice on avoiding common road blocks and offer step-by-step instruction on the process for achieving a Declare label with Red List Free status. Learn as we share the experiences of multiple manufacturers, and discuss feedback received from stakeholders. For more information, view the event flyer here.
Presenters:
Andrea Cooper, Living Building Challenge Materials Petal + Declare Manager, International Living Future Institute
Benson Gabler, Pittsburgh Living Product Hub Manager, International Living Future Institute

90 Years of Allegheny County Parks: Celebrating their Legacy, Imagining their Future
2018-01-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman St., Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Honoring County Executive Rich Fitzgerald
Featured Speakers – Thomas Woltz
Woltz is the award-winning landscape architect leading the design of public parks nationally and internationally. The event will also feature University of Michigan Professor Robert Grese on Jens Jensen, Paul Riis and the design that influenced our
Allegheny County Parks system.
Registration is and includes refreshments and free parking.
To purchase tickets, please register at: http://bit.ly/90YEARSOFPARKS.

90 Years of Allegheny County Parks: Celebrating their Legacy, Imagining their Future
2018-01-10 16:00 - 18:00 | Heinz History Center, 1212 Smallman St., Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Honoring County Executive Rich Fitzgerald
Featured Speakers – Thomas Woltz
Woltz is the award-winning landscape architect leading the design of public parks nationally and internationally. The event will also feature University of Michigan Professor Robert Grese on Jens Jensen, Paul Riis and the design that influenced our
Allegheny County Parks system.
Registration is $10 and includes refreshments and free parking.
To purchase tickets, please register at: http://bit.ly/90YEARSOFPARKS.

Southwestern Pennsylvania Mobility Showcase 5p-7p
2018-01-04 16:00 - 18:00 | University of Pittsburgh Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Transportation is changing rapidly in our region and never before have there been so many options in travel and information to aid our travel decision-making!
Hosted by the City of Pittsburgh Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, the showcase will feature a range of different mobility services and innovations – both existing and emerging – that can serve the goals, objectives and values of our region. Modes featured span the gamut from bicycle to public and private transit to shared mobility to autonomous mobility, in addition to various innovations in operating systems and information technologies.
Come and explore! You’re invited to contemplate how these many options can best serve our people, industries and economy!
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Open House periods
12 noon – 2pm
5pm – 7pm
Alumni Hall, University of Pittsburgh
4227 Fifth Ave
For more information or any questions please contact Justin Miller (Justin.miller@pittsburghpa.gov).
