Test Event
2020-03-18 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | PA|PA

Eden Hall Ecovillage (online)
2020-03-21 10:30 - 13:30 | Online
Do you like the idea of living in a community…
… where you know your neighbors,
… where friends are only a few doors away,
We welcome anyone who’s interested in learning about the Eden Hall Ecovillage to join our introductory session this Saturday. It will be online at 10:30 am to noon.
We will have a short illustrated talk about the ecovillage, a virtual tour with Chatham’s Dean Walker of the Eden Hall campus, and discussion.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://cmu.zoom.us/j/928876796

CANCELED: CMU Energy Week
2020-03-23 00:00 - 2020-03-27 23:59 | Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
As of 3/13/20 this event has been canceled.
CMU Energy Week, now in its fifth year, draws CEOs, entrepreneurs, government leaders, academic experts and students together to discuss ways to advance energy technologies and innovations around the world. Attendees trade expertise, connect to form partnerships and rub elbows with nationally-recognized thought leaders. CMU Energy Week is hosted by Carnegie Mellon University’s Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.
2020 Day by Day, at a glance:

3/23 – Pre-Event Programming: 2nd Annual CMU VentureWell Energy Hackathon, and CMU Energy Career Fair with Happy Hour Reception @ The Oaklander Hotel

3/24 – Official Kickoff (11am) with VIPs and government officials, Keynotes, Panels, Student Research Poster Competition, and Evening VIP Reception Event
3/25 – Keynotes, Fireside Chat-style Panels, Special Evening Reception & Tours of Solar Installation, ARM (Advanced Manufacturing for Robotics) Institute @ Mill19 in Hazelwood Green
3/26 – CMU Energy + Cleantech Investors Forum with Pitch Sessions, Start-Up One-on-Ones with Investors, and Energy, Law & Policy Symposium (in partnership with University of Pittsburgh School of Law), Evening Reception @ Tepper Quad
3/27 – DOE’s American-Made Solar Prize Demo Day Competition, CMU’s Tepper School of Business Cleantech Case Competition, and Closing Reception

CANCELED Steel Chef 2020 Cookoff
2020-03-23 17:00 - 20:30 | Father Ryan Arts Center, 420 Chartiers Ave, McKees Rocks, PA, United States
Steel Chef is an annual, 11-week program that provides teens the tools and education they need to prepare healthier foods while teaching them entry-level skills needed to work in restaurant kitchens. The program serves as a career pathway to the restaurant industry.

Join Focus On Renewal and Heritage Valley Hospital, for the culinary competition of 2019! Watch a group of Pittsburgh teens and local chefs as they battle it out chef-style on stage to determine who has what it takes to win the coveted title of “Steel Chef”.

There will be three teams of one chef per team. Jr Chefs have been training since January to develop the necessary basic prep and sous chef skills in order to compete. Competitors for the “Steel Chef” title will be rated and determined by local celebrity judges — Kevin Sousa of Superior Motors, Keyla Cook of Casa Brasil, and Mark Snyder of C2E2L. The event will be held at the Father Ryan Arts Center theater in McKees Rocks. Come see what’s cooking!!

Our Chef Mentors/Competitors:

Chef Natalie DeiCas from Everyday’s A Sunday + Café
Chef Zach Mitcham from Hyatt Regency bellfarm kitchen
Chef Claudy Pierre from Arnold’s Tea
Ticket prices includes soft drinks and small bites from local restaurants and caterers

420 Chartiers Ave, McKees Rocks, PA 15136

$25

Proceeds from competition ticket sales will help provide and expand future Steel Chef programming.

Sustainability & Health: Partners by Nature Webinar
2020-03-24 10:00 - 11:30 | Webinar
On Tuesday, March 24th, from 10-11:30 a.m., the Pennsylvania Environmental Resource Consortium (PERC), Penn State’s Sustainability Institute, the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health, the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and the Villanova School of Nursing are co-hosting a webinar on the intersection of sustainability and public health in Pennsylvania. This call will introduce frameworks of sustainability and the social determinants of health and open a discussion on how we can build collaborations across organizations working in these fields going forward.

Business Survival Tactics During Coronavirus Webinar
2020-03-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Social Venture Circle hosts this interactive webinar led by Josh Knauer on business survival tactics during coronavirus.
Josh Knauer, JumpScale Co-Founder and Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will provide expertise on business crisis management, having successfully led two companies to successful exits through several economic recessions, 9/11 and the H1N1 pandemic.

Time

Mar 25, 2020 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

International Association of Culinary Professionals Conference
2020-03-27 00:00 - 2020-03-29 23:59 | Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
You’re invited to the 42nd Annual IACP Conference, happening March 27-29, 2020 in Pittsburgh. You can count on immersive, hands-on programming, inspirational talks, delicious bites and tons of networking.
Pittsburgh residents can receive a discounted ticket price of $199 each day (Saturday and Sunday.) Pittsburgh resident tickets can be found here.

CANCELED Local Food Matchup
2020-03-31 16:00 - 19:00 | Millvale Food and Energy Hub, 112 E. Sherman Street, Millvale, PA, United States
This FREE event aims to help regional food-based businesses create new relationships and connect with resources to help support a vibrant sustainable local food system.
Who should attend:
Farmers, Growers, Food/Beverage Producers,
Institutional Buyers, Retailers, Restaurants, and
Service/Resource Providers.
Where:
Millvale Food + Energy Hub
112 E Sherman St, Millvale, PA 15209
http://bit.ly/LocalFoodMatchup2020

CANCELED Industry Forum on Energy Efficiency
2020-04-03 00:00 - 23:59 | Navy Yard, 4747 S Broad St #120, Philadelphia, PA 19112, PA, United States
Presented by the Energy Efficiency Alliance.
The full-day forum on Friday, April 3rd, 2020, will feature breakout sessions in three tracks: Healthcare, Food Services, and Higher Education. By focusing on the specific and unique concerns of the three most energy-intensive industries, this event will bring best practices for energy savings and sustainability to the forefront.
The agenda for this year’s event prioritizes networking. We’ll kick things off the night before, with cocktails and conversation amid the bustling exhibitor hall. The agenda for the full event on the following day offers half hour breaks between sessions and extended mealtimes so that attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors can make the connections they need to grow their businesses and the industry at large.

UPMC Passavant's Shred-A-Thon
2020-04-04 09:00 - 12:00 | UPMC Passavant
Safely and securely dispose of unwanted documents AND help the environment, thanks to UPMC Passavants’s mobile paper shredding vehicle.
Limit 6 boxes per customer.
Location: UPMC Passvant, Green Lot, 9100 Babcock Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15237

Setting Up Your Web Store Presence During COVID-19
2020-04-07 12:00 - 13:00 | PA|PA
There are several options to sell both products and services online. During COVID-19, we’re assessing all of the options. Join us in this Setting Up Your Web Store Presence Webinar Series as we work through different options and strategies to create quick and easy online stores.
This webinar series features the following topics:
Selecting the best digital platform. Understand your quick and easy options of Squarespace,
Facebook Store and Shopify.
Choosing the appropriate hosting plan
Setting up the perfect domain name
How to build your e-commerce store to attract the perfect customer
Collecting payments
How to get your new web store found and on the map

Participants will also receive a workbook and Q&A time with our webinar presenter, Toya Wilson-Smith, CMO of NexGeneration Mobile Marketing, to help implement the strategies.
This is a two part series:
– Part 1: Tuesday April 7, 2020 | 12:00pm-12:45pm
– Part 2: Thursday April 9, 2020 | 12:00pm-12:45pm
Join the Facebook event to stay up to date https://www.facebook.com/events/307640350210873/

Time
Apr 7, 2020 12:00 PM
Apr 9, 2020 12:00 PM

Upcoming Training on Using Zoom
2020-04-07 13:00 - 14:00 | PA|PA
CONNECT is hosting a skill share training for using Zoom as a tool for hosting public meetings on Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 1:00 pm. Access the meeting here. If you are interested in hosting council meetings via Zoom, we encourage you to invite your council members to attend this training.

Solve Climate by 2030: Virtual Teach-in on Climate Solutions and Justice
2020-04-07 19:00 - 21:00 | PA|PA
On April 7, from 7 to 8 p.m., the Sustainability Institute at Penn State will host the online Pennsylvania session of “Solve Climate by 2030,” a nationwide, university-hosted virtual teach-in on climate solutions and justice.
For one evening, attendees from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico will tune into power dialogs to explore and discuss state and local actions for solving climate change by 2030. The event is organized by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, with various universities from across the nation hosting webinars in their state.
“As part of the state’s land-grant university, Penn State’s Sustainability Institute is excited to provide all Pennsylvanians — kids, teachers, government officials and leaders of all kinds — the opportunity to hear from some of our state’s best climate champions about what we can do as a commonwealth,” said Peter Buck, academic programs manager at the institute. “Pennsylvania has a unique and powerful role to play in taking on the climate challenge. We are a major energy producer, a leader in agriculture and one of the most forested states in the union. That makes us ripe for changes that can make us healthier, more secure and prosperous.”
Following Pennsylvania’s hour-long webinar power dialog, local communities are invited to have their own conversations offline or in their own online spaces for the next hour. Panelists include:

Hannah Smith-Brubaker, Village Acres farmer and executive director, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
Jacquelyn Bonomo, executive director of Penn Future, and
Joylette Portlock, executive director of Sustainable Pittsburgh.
Grant Ervin, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Pittsburgh, will moderate the discussion.

The event is free to join, and those interested in attending are encouraged to register prior to the webinar via the Solve Climate by 2030 website. Each state has a separate registration page, and Pennsylvania participants can register here: http://www.solveclimateby2030.org/. The virtual teach-in will be live-streamed via Zoom and the Sustainability Institute’s Facebook page.

Navigating the CARES Act/Paycheck Protection Program for Small Businesses
2020-04-08 14:00 - 15:00 | PA|PA
Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 2pm EDT
During this period of business and financial uncertainty, there are a plethora of resources available to provide assistance that can help your business stay in operation. As part of the CARES Act, the Paycheck Protection Program provides a $350 billion package to help small businesses cover operating expenses while retaining employees. Join Sustainable Pittsburgh for a free webinar to learn about gaining access to these loans, eligibility, timelines/turnarounds, loan forgiveness, technical support available to assist through the process, and other resources available for small businesses during this time.
Presenters:

Heather Thomas VP, Sr. SBA Business Development Officer, Huntington Bank
Lindsay Cost VP, Sr. SBA Product Specialist, Huntington Bank

Who should attend?
Any small business affected by COVID-19 including restaurants, retailers, farmers, producers.
Learn more about eligibility, the application process, forgiveness, and other details on the Paycheck Protection Program through this information sheet provided by the U.S. Department of Treasury.
We encourage you to share this invitation with those in your network who would benefit from learning how to navigate this complicated and quickly-changing COVID-19 environment.

Tools for Hosting Public Meetings and Engaging your Community Online
2020-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | PA|PA
In this uncertain period of social distancing and office closures, connecting with your community members and providing services and information is more challenging than ever. During this webinar, Sustainable Pittsburgh will highlight a few useful and accessible public engagement and information online platforms available to municipalities.
Topics to be covered:

Brief overview of crisis communications best practices
Technical assistance – practical ways we can help
Relevant platforms for public engagement

social media: options available and how to optimize
tools for hosting official municipal meetings, taking surveys of your residents and businesses, sending and receiving timely information to and from your community, and some of the best practices related to those tools.

The applications discussed during this webinar are from a larger list of public engagement and information tools compiled by Sustainable Jersey and adapted for use by Sustainable Pittsburgh for communities in Pennsylvania:
Public Information and Community Engagement Tools spreadsheet
Summary of Public Information and Community Engagement Tools
Offer of Technical Assistance with Online Meetings and Public Engagement Tools

Who Should Attend:
Municipal managers and staff, elected officials, community development professionals
