Aug 29: Join the Shale Gas & Oil Health Registry

Join Sustainable Monroeville and the Environmental Health Project to learn about health impacts and and share your own experiences!  Document your health symptoms and potential exposures to contaminated air and water into the  secure on-line registry created by the EHN. Please bring your email address and a password for registration.  Help with sign-up...

August 25: March for Peace

A coalition of activists from the Thomas Merton Center and several different social and political advocacy groups will meet in Oakland for a rally in Schenley Plaza, followed by a march through the streets ending at Carnegie Mellon University.  The march route includes...

Aug 18: Free soil lead screening

Come join the Allegheny County Conservation District and Grow Pittsburgh at the Garden Resource Center, bring us a dry soil sample in a small ziploc bag, and have your soil screened for lead instantly!  Understanding the presence of lead is essential for safe gardening and children's...

Aug 11: 79th Sustainability Salon

The 79th Sustainability Salon will take place on August 11th.  In a departure from our usual format of talks and discussion focused on a single topic, this month we'll have more informal, free-flowing conversation.  It's the annual No-Topic Salon, where I don't have...

Aug 11: Rethinking Plastic forum

Keynote Speaker:      Patricia DeMarco, local environmental scientist & author of Pathways to Our Sustainable Future: A Global Perspective from Pittsburgh Panel Discussion led by filmmaker Mark Dixon with      Myrna Newman ,...