Sustainable Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Restaurant Week Winter 2020
2020-01-13 00:00 - 2020-01-19 23:59 (America/New_York)
Featuring many Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurant favorites! Find the list here.

Transportation and Climate Initiative Updates Webinar
2019-12-17 14:30 - 16:30 | Live Webinar, Select a Country:
On Tuesday, December 17, the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) will host a public webinar to share the latest updates in the TCI regional low-carbon transportation policy development process. The webinar will also be recorded and posted to the TCI website.

Pennsylvania C-PACE Update and Information
2019-12-12 13:00 - 14:30 | Live Webinar, Select a Country:
This webinar will begin with an update on the progress of C-PACE in Pennsylvania to date. The second half of the webinar will be dedicated to an overview of Program Guidelines and the steps to initiate a project.

Register Here and you Will be sent the webinar information.

Living Building Challenge 4.0: Pittsburgh
2019-12-12 09:00 - 13:00 | Green Building Alliance, 33 Terminal Way, Suite 331, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
The Living Building Challenge (LBC) calls for the creation of building projects that operate as cleanly, beautifully, and efficiently as nature’s architecture. The LBC is the built environment’s most rigorous performance standard. As a standard, it provides a holistic approach to high-performance building that aims to address health, community, equity, energy, water, and beyond. The LBC 4.0 is the next step in the evolution of the Living Building Challenge that continues the standard’s mission of visionary but attainable building goals while also recognizing that not all projects face the same challenges or share in the same opportunities. LBC 4.0 provides a streamlined approach focused on maximizing a project’s positive impacts specific to the place, community, and culture.
This event is approved for the following continuing education credits:

4 LFA Foundational CE credits*
4 AIA LUIHSW

*This workshop fulfills 4 LFA Foundational CE credits and can be reported as a substitute for the ‘Understanding the Living Building Challenge’ course.

Sustainability 101: What are the Components of a Green and Healthy School?
2019-12-10 08:30 - 15:00 | Frick Environmental Center
School sustainability is not just about recycling—there is so much that goes into creating a culture for sustainability in your school! In this Green Building Alliance workshop, we highlight some of the building blocks to create a healthy school: making green cleaning choices, purchasing healthy supplies for your classrooms, best practices for school gardening, and others. Come learn about other schools or organizations successes, lessons learned, and tactics for starting exciting school practices!
This is a workshop in our Green and Healthy Schools Academy’s School Sustainability Workshop series. Upcoming workshops include:

Wednesday February 19th, 8:30-3:00pm—Handprinting: Creating Healthy, High-Performing, and Engaging Environments through a Net-Positive Approach
Thursday April 16th, 8:30-3:00pm—Creating the Ideal Learning Environments: An Introduction to Biophilic Design & Biomimicry for Educators
Thursday May 7th, 6-8pm—Teaching Climate Change in your Classrooms: Teacher Cohort Showcase

Decolonizing Wealth: Unlocking Philanthropy to Heal Divides
2019-12-09 15:30 - 17:00 | The University Club, Ballroom B, 123 University Place, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Much of the wealth fueling institutional philanthropy in the 20th century in Pittsburgh came from family fortunes gained through extractive industries, basic manufacturing or investments related to both. Author and philanthropic leader Edgar Villanueva traces the roots of these fortunes to lands, resources and rights appropriated from Native people and original inhabitants. He likens the philanthropy resulting from these fortunes as mirror images of the colonial power structures that undermined the welfare of indigenous people and the earth we share. Advising funders to recognize and redress these past wrongs, he urges philanthropists to treat this money as healing medicine.
In his landmark book, Decolonizing Wealth, Edgar Villanueva invokes indigenous wisdom to encourage a more inclusive philanthropy that heals society’s deep divides. He advocates moving more of this money to where the hurt is greatest in order to repair a world broken by structural racism and exploitation. In this intimate conversation and interview with Philanthropy Forum director Kathy Buechel, Edgar Villanueva will explore pathways to help philanthropy restore balance, and renew its promise for healing social good.

Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership Summit
2019-12-03 07:00 - 19:00 | Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown, 600 Commonwealth Pl, Pittsburgh, PA|PA|PA|PA
The goal in 2019, Building a Region that Works … for Everyone, will require us all to engage in capacity building, collaboration, building our own knowledge, and the use of compilation and data. We will train, match, and support our regional nonprofit organizations to reach all of their goals.

Give Big Pittsburgh
2019-12-03 00:00 - 23:59 | Online, 1435 Bedford Avenue, Suite 140, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
This year, Sustainable Pittsburgh is joining the rest of our Pittsburgh’s nonprofit community in this global online giving movement called Giving Tuesday. Our hosts, Pittsburgh Magazine and Pittsburgh foundation has adopted this movement into the Greater Pittsburgh community and continue to support the nonprofits doing great work in our region. Mark your calendars and join us online on December 3 from midnight to 11:59PM – Make Your City Proud by supporting the Sustainable Pittsburgh during #GiveBigPittsburgh!

Racial Justice Awards 2019
2019-11-22 11:30 - 14:00 | Omni William Penn Hotel, 530 William Penn Place, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
The 2019 YWCA Racial Justice Awardees are individuals and organizations that have demonstrated their commitment to racial equity through their efforts to build community, conduct research, shift policies, raise awareness, and empower people of color and immigrants. Join us on November 22 to celebrate Pittsburgh’s racial justice champions!

Leaders and Lead: Creating Lead-safe Municipalities
2019-11-21 09:30 - 12:00 | SpringHill Suites by Marriott Pittsburgh, 2950 South Water Street, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Come learn how municipalities and elected officials can lead the charge to protect your community from lead!

Join Lead Safe Allegheny County Coalition for an inspiring morning that can set your municipality apart:

Ordinances that are fiscally friendly
Protect your community’s most valuable asset: children
Proactive lead inspection programs and rental registries
Costs associated with regulations; resources available for testing and remediation
Implementing lead-safe demo practices

Plus, a real world case study featuring: Len Merritt, Manager of Code Enforcement, City of Rochester
Check in / Breakfast — 9:30am
Speakers / Discussion — 10:00 to Noon

Conservation Conference
2019-11-19 07:00 - 2019-11-20 21:30 | Hilton Baltimore, 401 West Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD, United States
As the only conservation organization to focus on corporate contributions to biodiversity, employee engagement and community relations, we are in a unique position to offer the most relevant and timely insight into the issues facing corporate conservation today. Conservation Conference attendees range from corporate EHS and CSR executives to boots-on-the-ground technical professionals, all working together to make positive impacts for habitat and education.

Creative Reconnection in the Anthropocene
2019-11-18 18:00 - 19:30 | Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, 810 Penn Avenue, 7th floor, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
In the face of climate change and the Anthropocene, artists are embracing social practice, community art, and collaboration to support a just and sustainable future. In this workshop, we’ll consider how best to apply our skills in analysis, envisioning, and pattern recognition to understand how we have arrived at this historical moment of human impact and how to move forward as artists.

2019-2020 Newly Elected Officials Course
2019-11-16 09:00 - 14:30 | Doubletree Hotel and Suites, One Bigelow Square, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Local Government Academy’s acclaimed Newly Elected Officials Course (NEOC) will once again provide in-depth training opportunities for elected officials new to their positions in November. NEOC is the go-to training for local government officials in the practice of good governance.
Designed specifically for local elected officials in Pennsylvania, the Newly Elected Officials Course is now in its 35th year and is a comprehensive program that gives elected officials a head start in all aspects of governing, including leading an efficient and effective workplace, policy writing, conserving natural resources, and planning for the future. Participants engage with leaders at the local, county, and state level, as well as academic professors and credentialed instructors from both the public and private sectors.

Emerging Leader Award Ceremony
2019-11-15 08:30 - 10:00 | University of Pittsburgh's Barco Law Building, 3900 Forbes Avenue, Room 107, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
The Johnson Institute for Responsible Leadership is pleased to announce this year’s Emerging Leader Award recipient, Samir Lakhani, founder of the nonprofit Eco-Soap Bank a global soap-recycling organization which operates in 11 countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
This annual celebration recognizes the accomplishments of individuals who, relatively early in their professional careers, have demonstrated exceptional leadership qualities and high promise of future contributions.
RSVP gspiaji@pitt.edu

PA Municipal League Sustainability Conference
2019-11-13 08:00 - 16:00 | The Chubb Hotel & Conference Center, 309 Manor Road, Lafayette Hill, PA|PA
Join the Pennsylvania Municipal League for their annual Sustainability Conference, featuring opportunities for local government leaders and policy makers to strengthen their sustainability efforts!
