greening

Carrie Furnace Green

activities | after school | environment | greening | health | image | parks | post-industrial | promotions

A Post-Industrial Playground on the Monongahela

Raise the Green Roof

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

Roof gardens reverse effects of commercial pollution

Consumer Recycling Network

advocacy | awareness | environment | greening | image | recycle | recycling | reuse | sustainability

Sites to Assist, Promote and Teach Good Recycling Habits

GAME Stops

awareness | beautification | buses | civic engagement | environment | greening | information | recycling | redd up

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The Living Broom

beautification | cleaning | community | competition | greening | image | litter | neighborhoods | pride

Encourage community pride through environmental consciousness. Give every shop owner a broom to sweep in front of their shop and neighbors' if needed. Before and after pictures would be taken. Competition between neighbors with prizes awarded by local officials when someone is seen sweeping.

Redd Up Romp

banking | beautification | bricks and mortar | civic engagement | environment | greening | image | litter

Community clean up and beautification neighborhood competition

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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