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  • Radio Round Up – August 15, 2008

    An electronic pinball machine (Theatre of Magi...Image via Wikipedia Green Drinks at Steel City Biofuels

    • Steel City Biofuels is a non profit organization in Pittsburgh dedicated to spreading the word about biofuel
    • Green Drinks is a monthly happy hour for all who want to talk about the environment
    • Steel City Biofuels will host Green Drinks on Fri. August 15 @ Steel City Biofuels new offices in Point Breeze

    World Pinball Championships

    • All weekend in Carnegie at the Pinball facility
    • the Pinball hall has over 400 pinball machines and is only open to the public for this tournament
    • Spectators are welcome to come – the tournament runs all day Friday – Sunday
    • Top pinball players from around the world will be here to compete

    Grease @ Schenley Park

    • Free movie at the Schenley Park Pavillion
    • Sat. August 16, 2008 – film starts around 8pm

    Red, Ripe and Roasted – 4th Annual Tomato and Garlic Festival

    • Sun. August 17 – 1-5pm @ Phipps
    • farmers market, tastings, demos
    • tomato juggling, garlic roasting and music

    3rd Annual Pillow Fight

    • big public pillow fight
    • Wed. August 20, 2008 @ Flagstaff Hill in Schenley Park
    • Transformers the movie is showing for free

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  • Steel City Biofuels Hosts Green Drinks

    I have blogged about Green Drinks here at IheartPGH and I have attended some of these events in the past. Green Drinks is an international happy hour where anyone who wants to talk about all things green can meet up with other green thinkers. There are Green Drinks gatherings in cities all over the world. The Pittsburgh Green Drinks usually meets up at Bossa Nova on the 3rd Friday of every month. While I like Bossa Nova – it is really not the best place to have a meet up like Green Drinks – it gets a little too loud and it is hard to have a real conversation in a place like Bossa Nova on a friday evening.

    This month – Steel City Biofuels will be hosting Green Drinks at their new offices which are located in Point Breeze (they are in the same building as Construction Junction). I was lucky enough to be invited there for lunch earlier this summer. Their new offices are great and this will be a great chance to learn about Steel City Biofuels and check out a Green Drinks in a not-so-loud location. Beer will be provided by the local brewing establishment and Pittsburgh lover East End Brewing.

    Green Drinks @ Steel City Biofuels Offices (In Construction Junction)
    Friday, August 15, 2008 – 5pm-9pm
    FREE     (more…)

  • Happy Hours

    Lots of great happy hours to check out this evening

    Drinking Green – Green Drinks is back at Bossa Nova. This months hosts are the great guys behind G-TECH, a new start-up company from some CMU students. I have had the opportunity to talk with both Andrew and Nathaniel from GTECH a couple of times – they have great ideas for the future of Pittsburgh and they are lots of fun. All are welcome to attend.

    Green Drinks
    Friday, July 20, 5-8pm
    Bossa Nova

    Beers in Braddock – head on down to the Braddock Elks club, meet the mayor, check out this historic steel town and some of the exciting development there, DJ Zombo is back in town.

    WRCT’s radio madman takes his wild collection of amazing music to the Elks in Braddock this Friday at 8pm.
    50’s Rockabilly, 60’s Garage and Surf, Nutty Novelty tunes, Crazy R and B plus music that defies description. It’s a wild ride!

    More info on Braddock: http://www.15104.cc/

    Beers at the Braddock Elks Club
    Friday, July 20, 8pm
    Elks Lodge 883, 424 Library Street , Braddock , PA

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  • 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 Bio-fuels, United Oil Company, and the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection.

    And after our discussion, Steel City Bio-fuels will give a live demonstration on how they make bio-fuel!

    About This Month’s Hosts:

    Steel City Bio-fuels (www.SteelCityBiofuels.org)
    United Oil Company (www.UnitedB100.com)

    What is Green Drinks?

    Every month, people who work in the environmental field or have in interest in a greener planet meet up for drinks at places all around the world at informal sessions known as Green Drinks. We have a lively mixture of people from NGOs, academia, government and business. Come along and you’ll be made welcome.Pittsburgh Green Drinks meets on the 3rd Friday of each month from 5:30 – 7:00 PM at Phipps Conservatory. Put it in your calendar and count on it: Green Drinks is happening every month.

    For Directions, follow this link:
    http://www.phipps.conservatory.org/directions.htm

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    2.

    Join us for a Goodbye Party for the Mon-Fayette Toll Road, in the heart of Braddock, through which the road would heartlessly raze. We’ll gather at Mayor John Fetterman’s front yard (or the First Presbyterian Church next door near the corner of Braddock & Library, should it rain) for a potluck and lively conversation (8:00 p.m.) That means you should bring some food or snacks to share, and bring your own drinks. We’ll have the basics. There will be an outdoor pottery firing going on at the Carnegie Library (if you want to, for example, burn some Turnpike Commission literature).

    When night falls, we’ll process to the Ohringer Building (640 Braddock Ave.) for the unveiling of an art installation (writ large: NOMFX) and a major announcement about the Toll Road you won’t want to miss! We may even pass the hat a little: we need to start the Toll Road Retirement Fund.

    Let’s rally. Let’s party. Let’s kiss the Toll Road goodbye!

    This FRIDAY July 21, 8:00 pm
    Mayor John Fetterman’s Place
    Library Street off Braddock Ave
    Braddocc, PA (think I’m spelling that wrong? check out www.braddocc.com)

    Free- BYOB & chow

    More info about the MFX:
    http://www.pennfuture.org/mf/

    produced by Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture); Progress Pittsburgh; Sierra Club, Allegheny Gp; Group Against Smog & Pollution; Mayor, Braddock PA; League of Young Voters; Hazelwood Initiative

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