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Home » Archives » December 2007 » The Greening of Pittsburgh

12/07/2007: "The Greening of Pittsburgh"
POP City, an independent Pittsburgh news source, recently spotlighted four Steeltown residents who are showing that the post-industrial transformation doesn't have to involve outsourcing or living dirty....

Some telling quotes:
  • ...living on the South Side, she walks, bikes, or takes mass transit to work, also on the South Side. Saving all that energy, keeping auto pollutants out of the air, "is pretty important," she says.
  • Choosing a place to live, he says, "based on efficiency, public transit, and convenience," he lives near the busway, hops the 40-seat limo for Downtown, and encourages his employees to do the same.
  • Like Rebecca Flora, Kobet recycles and buys locally grown food at the farmer’s market, saving transportation energy and associated pollution.
To read more, go to Living the Green Life.