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Sierra Club Enviromental Film Festival featuring Mark Dixon from YERT

Mark & YERT (check it out!)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 up from last year).

After his year long environmental road trip, YERT founder Mark Dixon has decided to make Pittsburgh his home and he will be at the film festival on Saturday. I have had the opportunity to get to know Mark over the past 2 years and I really enjoyed his presentation at the 2009 GLUE (Great Lakes Urban Exchange) Conference that we attended last month in Milwaukee. I am also thankful that Mark has introcuded me to the chico bag and that I have significantly reduced the number of plastic bags needed for shopping this year.

Here is the schedulfor Saturday:

  • Garden Song – If you want to get psyched for gardening, this should do it! (28 mins)
  • Eden’s Lost and Found: Philadelphia – If Philly can do it, so can we! How volunteer organizations have redeemed inner-city Philadelphia’s environment on a shoe-string. (57 minutes)
  • YERT (Your Environmental Road Trip) – A zany, clever, fun, interesting and totally up-to-date look at what’s happening nationwide in the environment, with Mark Dixon, the filmmaker. Not to be missed! Really first class fun. Great for all ages. (about 90 mins)
  • Cheat Neutral – A satirical look at carbon offsetting. Does it really work? (13 mins)
  • Black Diamonds – Mountain-top removal at its worst. How it’s destroying our neighbors in West Virginia and what we can do about it. (72 mins)

Here is the trailer for Black Diamonds…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7Zb3Tb0oSM[/youtube]

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The History of Local Trails

Pittsburgh bike trailImage by katherine of chicago via Flickr

I 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, 11 February 20097:30-9pm, Botany Hall, adjacent to Phipps Conservatory, OaklandSpeakers include: Bob Gangawere, former editor of Carnegie MagazineDirector of Friends of the River Front with Brendan Wiant, Bally DesignThere is a nice article on this talk in today’s PopCityMedia here.  Continue reading →

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.  Stop by the Shadow Lounge.   When you are done, head over to Kelly’s for a beer too!

Super Tuesday Party
Tuesday, February 5, 7-10pm
Shadow Lounge
Hosted by: Pittsburgh League of Young Voters & Sierra Club

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 that commemoratre the Civil Rights Movement. These bookshelves, as well as multicultural books, will be donated to local schools Continue reading →

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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