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Pittsburgh, Still Happening
written 16 Aug 2008 in the earliest morning
Though we’re currently on the road for some time, I’m still keeping up to date with all the latest haps in Pittsburgh’s progressive movement via my favorite websites, mostly ones on the Internet.
Via the Post Gazette, Pittsburgh will have 20,000 more trees planted over the next 5 years. For a city that’s already pretty green (stand at the point and look around, you’ll see more trees than buildings), that’s great news.
Jim Lehrer’s NewHour (that fast-paced, glitsy…er, PBS daily news show) did a peace on Pittsburgh’s Green Tech scene.
The city also recently hired its first Bicycle Coordinator, who will work to make the city a safer, better place for bicycling. The city has even consulted with Bike Pittsburgh through it all, which really shows that they’re in the game for real rather than just trying to do it their way.
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Three Simple Things to Make You Greener
Just a few easy lifestyle modifications to help you jump on the green bandwagon. Soon enough you’ll be pulling the thing yourself!
- Paper or Plastic? Cloth. Take your own cloth bags to the grocery store. Americans alone use around 65 billion plastic bags every year. Whole Foods recently quit providing the option of plastic, likely because people were choosing it just so they could recycle with the bags.
Added Bonus! Now you can pick up a few large blue tubs and keep your recycling in those. It’s better for the environment and a lot easier to toss your recyclables into the tubs than to try and squeeze them into the bags.
Pittsburgh Expands its Recycling Program
The City of Pittsburgh has expanded its recycling program for the Central and Eastern Neighborhoods (pretty much everyone in the city, between the Allegheny & Monongahela) tremendously. Now, you can put out just about everything, including:
No New Format
The Blu-ray format reached prototype stage in October of 2000. It will, arguably, become the standard as of this year: 2008. So it took 8 years to develop the latest prevailing disc format. Remember that DVDs only came to market as of 1995. So five years after VHS was beginning to be replaced, it’s replacement was being replaced.
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