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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 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… Read the rest

The History of Local Trails

Image 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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

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… Read the rest

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?… Read the rest

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