Resilient Cities Need Strong Networks – with Grant Ervin
Sustaining Sustainability, Episode 5: “Resilient Cities Need Strong Networks – with Grant Ervin” is now available on SoundCloud, Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, and the CSB website.
In this episode, Center for Sustainable Business Director CB Bhattacharyais joined from Pittsburgh, PA by Grant Ervin, Chief Resilience Officer and Sustainability Manager for the City of Pittsburgh. Mr. Ervin discusses the historical challenges and inequalities in Pittsburgh magnified by the COVID-19 crisis; why an integrated approach is needed to build a more resilient city going forward; and, the critical role that industry partners can play in implementing some of the more pressing digital, environmental, and food systems innovations the city needs: “Those issues of education and work, which were challenges beforehand, or food access – finding ways in which to build more robust systems and networks [to address those issues] are going to be really critical for the city going forward.”