Tag Archives: Sierra Club

Sierra Club Enviromental Film Festival featuring Mark Dixon from YERT

Image by michael and anna via Flickr Saturday, April 18th, 2009, 6-10pm is the 2nd evening of the Sierra Club’s Environmental Film Festival. They have a great line up of 5 different films for the evening – including a showing of some of the YERT footage. YERT stands for Your Environmental Road Trip (see the our post on the YERT kick-off and follow more

The History of Local Trails

Image by katherine of chicago via FlickrI saw this event on the Venture Outdoors blog today and I think this will be a really interesting talk about the history of the trails system in Pittsburgh. The parks and trails here are pretty amazing and it is strange to think that these assets are relatively recent to the city.Trails, Riverfronts, Local HistoryWednesday, more

Super Tuesday Party

Presidential primary fun!  Join other campaign lovers at the Shadow Lounge for the Super Tuesday Party.  The big screens will be set up for result watching.  Free food from the folks at Kiva Han.  Prizes for predicting the winner! Hosted by The Pittsburgh League of Young Voters and the Sierra Club, both great groups with some really fun people.  more

MLK Day: Bookshelf Building

I think this looks like a great project to do on Martin Luther King Junior Day. The folks from the Sierra Club are great and this is a great project that will be used all over the city. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Bookshelf Building with the Sierra Club The Sierra Club, along with 250 adults, youth and familes, will be building and designing bookshelves more

more things to do tonight

1. Traditional fuel. It’s… Bad for the environment. A foreign-relations headache. And getting much more expensive. But what are our other options? Join us for Green Drinks this Friday at Phipps Conservatory from 5:30 to 7:30pm for a discussion on the great advances in bio-diesel and other local alternative fuel options with our hosts Steel City more