buildings

Raise the Green Roof

advocacy | buildings | education | environment | greening | health | quality of life | sustainability

Roof gardens reverse effects of commercial pollution

Manchester Climbing Wall

advocacy | alternative | bridges | buildings | exercise | fitness | health | history | North | North Shore

Convert old bridge piers into public access climbing walls

Raise the (Green) Roof

advocacy | alternative | buildings | circuses | education | energy | environment | health | parks | quality of life

Promote green rooftops in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Flats

buildings | city property | civic engagement | co-housing | community | housing | life-work balance | low income

Provide affordable co-housing option to young, pre home-owning professionals

Space for Kids and Teens

activities | after school | buildings | Downtown | mentors | neighborhoods | safety | schools | technology

A space downtown for kids and teens to hang out that is run by kids and teens: smaller centers may be located in the different neighborhoods

Office of Sustainable Development ("Green Dream Machine")

beautification | bikes | buildings | celebrations | community | energy | environment | farm markets | health | industry

Create an agency with a mission to implement and encourage environmentally friendly community projects and lifestyles in individual households

Adopt-A-Protocol: Green Pittsburgh

buildings | energy | environment | health | image | industry | kyoto | politics | standards | sustainability

The city of Pittsburgh will adopt the Kyoto protocols and apply them to the re-development processes. Pittsburgh will represent the leading edge of "Greening" a city.

Rehabitat

alternative | buildings | co-housing | co-op | collaboration | DIY | education | energy | housing | low income

Rehabilitate houses in low to moderate income neighborhoods by employing youth and out-of-work adults to do renovation and then providing homes to the community to live in and own.

Engage Pittsburgh is a program of The Sprout Fund, a project of the Tides Center (PA), and is supported by lead contributions from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and the Richard King Mellon Foundation.

Additional support for Engage Pittsburgh is provided in part by the Alcoa Foundation, Eden Hall Foundation, Grable Foundation, the Elsie Hillman Foundation, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, and the Pittsburgh Foundation.

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