Community Resilience in the Steel City

Rebuilding Communities: Economy, Energy, Transportation & Building

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Let's talk about local currency, public transit, sustainable and affordable building methods, alternative energy sources - all that jazz!

Members: 11
Latest Activity: Apr 9

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Zoning Regulations in PGH

One of those advantages of Transition (as seen in a lot of other initiatives) is that it can work on local policy as well as physical projects. One of the areas I’d love to see work is on zoning…Continue

Started by Alexander Dale Feb 29.

Potential projects?

This group has the potential to start some great projects and transform into one or more working groups. In the interests of such things happening, my thinking is that we should figure out a starting…Continue

Tags: ideas, tangible, projects

Started by Alexander Dale Jan 19.

3 Minutes with the Sust. Coordinator 2 Replies

Say you had 3 minutes with new Pgh Sustainability Coodinator Aftyn Giles - What topic would you talk about or ask about regarding current and future policy?Hat tip to ISIE for the questionContinue

Started by Alexander Dale. Last reply by Alexander Dale Jul 3, 2011.

Public Transit in Pittsburgh 1 Reply

I love the bus. So happy I don't own a car these days. Granted, I take the bus for free, and it's frustrating to see Port Authority laying people off and cutting routes and schedules, but for me it…Continue

Tags: bus

Started by Julie Charles. Last reply by Alexander Dale Jul 3, 2011.

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Comment by Catherine Gammon on August 15, 2011 at 4:45pm: I see this group is growing -- is there any activity coming out of this?

Comment by Alexander Dale on July 3, 2011 at 6:56pm: Someone else is better qualified to answer this, probably, but I’d definitely be *interested* in meeting face to face - the topics here are what drew me to Transition in the first place via the idea of energy descent planning.

Comment by Catherine Gammon on July 3, 2011 at 2:47pm: Hello, I just joined this mini-group because the discussion appearing on the main Transition page looked dynamic and as if there might be possibility here for looking at some tangible responses -- does this group ever meet face to face (other than tuesday evenings?) -- thanks,

Comment by Chris Tittle on April 5, 2011 at 12:10pm: I was thinking it might be interesting to see how everyone here came to Transition PGH so we might better understand how to expand awareness of the group. Aaron, can you create surveys on this platform that would show up on the homepage asking people how they found out about Transition? If we can't create one directly on the site, surveymonkey is super easy to use as well.

Just an idea