It’s a new year for the world and a special anniversary for the Pittsburgh region. 2013 marks 30 years since Pittsburgh’s economy hit bottom. The steel industry’s collapse crippled the region, its economy and its people. Marking the difference made by three decades of vision and collaboration – which resulted in a re-imagined and re-made [...]
Chatham’s Eden Hall Highlighted in “Green News Update”
Green News Update Editor and Publisher Roberta Faul-Zeitler has been paying attention to – and writing about – green practices since 2004. Her keen interest in sustainability as “a path, not a destination” (as her newly designed e-newsletter masthead proclaims) put her on a path to Pittsburgh this May. Here she explored [...]
There’s more than meets the eye to the buildings that dot Pittsburgh’s picturesque skyline and populate its neighborhoods. Many of them — 83 to be exact — are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified-structures commonly called “green buildings” because their design, materials and operations are easy on the environment and [...]
The energy leadership of organizations and innovators in the Pittsburgh region has been featured in yet another publication. TMS Journal (the publications of of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society) recently ran a story about Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens new Center for Sustainable Landscapes – also known as [...]
What is the power of Pittsburgh? It’s the knack of local innovators and organizations to collaborate and develop new solutions to vexing problems. The region has demonstrated this in many ways, not least of which is its transformation from an economy based on muscle and steel to one with globally recognized thought [...]
Relocations, Business Investments: All Begin with a Visit
“These folks [Pittsburghers] are inspiring. Check it out, ya’ll,” wrote Charleston, S.C.-based travel journalist Sharon Spence Lieb to end her article, “Pittsburgh Power,” published in the July 4 edition of the weekly Moultrie News. This full-page article – complete with five color photos of Pittsburgh – is yet another piece about Pittsburgh [...]
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