Coming Up May 2014
Solar Decathlon Europe 2014: Twenty collegiate/university teams compete June 28-July 14 for the coveted top award, building houses entirely powered by the sun! We’ll introduce you to the Appalachian State […]
Category Archives: Green Practices
Save These Dates! May/June ’14
If you are traveling — or want a reason to — here’s an array of conferences, happenings, and online events in architecture, design, green business, science, community development and more. […]
Cities: Trends/Transformations Baltimore, Berlin, Boston, Singapore, Changsha
This month in Cities: The World Health Organization estimates that by 2030, 6 of every 10 people will live in a city, and by 2050, this proportion will increase to […]
Green Museums: Intro to Parts I-III (2014)
Green like you’ve never seen Pittsburgh is a great place to debut the new Green Museums series, with stories and best green practices from a spectrum of botanic gardens, museums, history […]
Green Museums (Part III): Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Imagine a 460-acre parcel that has been deep mined, surface mined, farmed by several generations, and abandoned. Now, after more than a decade of brownfields reclamation and remediation, the place […]
Cities: Sydney, Shenzhen, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Philadelphia & more
There’s no denying that urban spaces – cities worldwide – are trending big-time, with an abundance of people on the move and plenty of challenges. In 2014, we’ll be presenting […]
Books on Food: Science, Scams, Marketplace, Lore
In our selection of holiday books, you won’t find a lot of recipes, but you will find out what we crave (salt, sugar, fat), love, obsess, how we taste, why it’s […]
Greenest Colleges & Universities: Just Announced
For the college-bound or those who want to work in higher education, the just-published 7th Annual CoolSchools Survey by Sierra Club maps out the greenest colleges and universities. Free and online, […]
Green Museums: Part 2 Pittsburgh’s Innovators
In Part 2 of the Green Museums series, we feature a half-dozen Pittsburgh museums that are embedding green values and practices in how they operate and, as a result, are […]
Green Museums Pt 2: 12 Nifty Ideas
Green Practices in Pittsburgh’s Museums – 12 Nifty Ideas That Add Up Green Team at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. Their mantra: Practice sustainability wherever you can. Green Team: […]
