Give Big Pittsburgh
2019-12-03 00:00 - 23:59 (America/New_York) | 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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

C-PACE Seminar: Committee on the Environment
2020-01-16 11:30 - 13:30 | MBA-WPA, 631 Iron City Drive Green Tree, Pennsylvania
C-PACE is a financing tool for local governments to help facilitate energy efficiency and clean energy loans. This is the second session in a series and will focus on the technical aspects of the program – how loans are accessed and administered; the legal considerations for the program; and what role architects and developers have during the process. A case study will be presented by a developer who has used C-PACE on several projects.

Environmental Film Series: Right to Harm
2020-01-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Phipps Conservatory - Botany Hall Auditorium, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Join Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens on Fri., Jan. 17 from 7 – 9 p.m. in the Botany Hall Auditorium at Phipps for a screening of Right to Harm. Through the riveting stories of five rural communities, Right to Harm exposes the devastating public health impact factory farming has on many disadvantaged citizens throughout the United States. Filmed across the country, the documentary chronicles the failures of state agencies to regulate industrial animal agriculture. Known formally as Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations – or CAFOs – these facilities produce millions of gallons of untreated waste that destroys the quality of life for nearby neighbors. Fed up with the lack of regulation, these disenfranchised citizens band together to demand justice from their legislators.

Understanding Unconscious Bias: Avoiding the Traps, Making Better Decisions
2020-01-22 09:00 - 14:00 | Duquesne University Power Center Ballroom, 1015 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
DBA Training Solutions has partnered with the Corporate Equity Inclusion Roundtable (CEIR), BPEP, and Duquesne University to provide our 5-hour Unconscious Bias workshop on Wednesday, January 22nd. Our workshops are led by a team of trainers who utilize a combination of lecture, videos, and group exercises as they take a deeper dive into the science behind bias and help attendees make better, more informed decisions in their personal and professional lives. Our training is relevant, engaging, and delivered in an eye-opening and non-accusatory presentation.
Fore more information, please visit our website at www.dbatrainingsolutions.com

Women of Color in Pennsylvania Politics: Ready to Run Pittsburgh Pre-Conference Session
2020-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Chatham University Shadyside Campus, Mellon Building, 1 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Ready to Run is a non-partisan program for women who want to run for office, seek higher office, work on a campaign, get appointed to office, or learn more about the political system. Ready to Run is your one-stop training on running for office or getting involved in public life. You will learn from prominent elected and appointed leaders, campaign consultants, party officials, and policy experts.

*This session is part of the Ready to Run Campaign Training Conference.

Racial Justice Summit
2020-01-25 00:00 - 2020-01-26 23:59 | Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, 616 N. Highland Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
The Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit is a two-part event. The Opening Ceremony is on Friday night at Union Project, and the Summit is a full day of workshops on Saturday. Register for the Summit on this page, and register for the Opening Ceremony here.
The Summit workshops and panels will be held at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Doors open at 8:00 am and there will be a continental breakfast. The event begins at 9 am. Lunch is also provided.
Looking forward to seeing you there! Our theme this year is 1492-2020: Decolonize Our Histories to Reclaim Our Humanity. America’s wealth is built on stolen land, by the labor of stolen people. Our legacy is one of genocide, enslavement, oppression and intergenerational trauma.
The Summit’s goal is to underscore the necessity and importance of critically re-evaluating our respective histories, specifically colonization, how it has caused widespread dehumanization and exploitation throughout global and local history, and its link to modern racial justice issues. Workshops and panels will confront historical and modern racial issues, including social, economic, political, immigration, and environmental justice.
Registration proceeds are used to cover the cost of hosting the Summit and for the Jonny Gammage Scholarship Fund. We ask that those with access to more resources pay more and thus provide the cushion for those with less access to pay less, creating a sustainable economic underpinning for the conference.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Thank you for your commitment to justice.

Ready to Run Campaign Training for Women Pittsburgh 2020
2020-01-25 08:00 - 17:00 | Chatham University Shadyside Campus, Mellon Building, 1 Woodland Rd, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Ready to Run is a non-partisan program for women who want to run for office, seek higher office, work on a campaign, get appointed to office, or learn more about the political system. Ready to Run is your one-stop training on running for office or getting involved in public life. You will learn from prominent elected and appointed leaders, campaign consultants, party officials, and policy experts.

Building Operator Event: Growing and Retaining Your Facilities Workforce
2020-01-29 11:00 - 14:00 | Grand Concourse, 100 West Station Square Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15219
Are you looking for ways to fill your workforce gap? This luncheon will provide strategies to grow your facilities operations & maintenance workforce and keep them engaged.
Limited seats! This free lunch is open to all Pennsylvania facilities operations and maintenance staff, especially those that work in the following sectors in PA: K-12 school districts, local/municipal government, state government, and colleges and universities.
Building Operator Certification (BOC) graduates: Please bring a facilities coworker with you to this event! (Must register separately.) Also, by attending this lunch, you will earn 1.5 continuing maintenance points.
Agenda:
11 a.m. – Sign in and networking
11:30 a.m. – Lunch buffet
12:30 p.m. – 2 p.m. – Featured speakers will present insider strategies to “Growing and Retaining Your Facilities Workforce”
Featured speakers:
John Tooley, Senior Building Science Consultant with Advanced Energy — Attracting, Developing and Retaining Superior Employees
Alison Diehl, Director of the National Sustainable Structures Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology — Upcoming grant-funded building operator training opportunities in PA
