Next Meeting: Thursday, August 21st, 6pm, The Oakland Career Center, 294 Semple Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Contact greenteam@opdc.org or 412.621.7863 ext. 14
For more information, go to
Environment/Health
Tree Pittsburgh and Grow Pittsburgh are partnering together to offer a urban fruit tree workshop. This workshop will bring in Susan Poizner, Director of Orchard People, a Toronto-based fruit tree organization, to speak about her lessons learned from starting many urban orchards. She will be joined by local Pittsburgh fruit tree knowledge for an interesting discussion on urban orcharding. This event will be hosted at the ECCO Center (200 Larimer Ave.) on Wednesday, August 13th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm and will include a walk to the Larimer Community Garden to learn about fruit trees that were planted on site. Class cost is $5. Register here!
Barbara Brewton of the Green Team is planning on driving to this workshop if people need rides or want to carpool. She is planning to be at the Career Center on Semple St by 5:45 and to leave by 6. Her car fits five other people; if anyone is interested in a ride please let them so that there is enough room for everyone. Barb can also borrow a van if necessary.
For more info on the Green Team visit
Experience Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater as the sun sets over the ridges of the Laurel Highlands during the 19th Annual Twilight Tour and Concert on Saturday, Aug. 23.
The tour, concert and picnic dinner, sponsored by Huntington Bank, provides guests with an opportunity to experience the house, mingle with old and new friends and enjoy wine and hors d’oeuvres. Organizers invite guests to walk through the rooms of the house at their own pace as the changing light allows visitors to see Fallingwater from an entirely new perspective.
At twilight, a lantern-lit path will lead guests to a meadow, where they will enjoy live jazz by The David Bach Trio from Washington, D.C., while dining on a gourmet picnic dinner prepared by Fallingwater’s chef. The David Bach Trio is featured on the internationally syndicated television show “Jazz Central.”
Space is limited – tickets should be purchased by Aug. 18.
Available by advance ticket purchase only
Tickets available online or by phone
$225 per person non-members
$200 per person members*
A portion of the price — $100 — is tax deductible and supports the preservation of Fallingwater.
Tickets available online or by phone
$225 per person non-members
$200 per person members*
A portion of the price — $100 — is tax deductible and supports the preservation of Fallingwater.
Clean Pittsburgh – South Oakland
Join Clean Pittsburgh steward Michael W. Thompson,
South Oakland Neighborhood Group (SONG),
and Pitt Volunteers for the next
Pitt Make a Difference Day
October 18, 2014
Click on the image to view and print the flyer.
Sign up today! Contact SONG at
or call/text 
Exploring Co-op Membership
Wednesday, July 9, 7:00 PM
EEFC Café Seating Area
Potluck with the Board
Sunday, July 13, 12:30 – 3:00 PM
Regent Square Frick Park Forbes and Braddock Shelter
An Overview of Food Preservation at Home
Wednesday, July 16, 6:30 PM
Carnegie Library – Homewood
Super Herbs for Health and Healing
Wednesday, July 23, 7:00 PM
EEFC Café Seating Area
The Science Behind Raw Foods and Juicing
Wednesday, July 30, 6:30 PM
EEFC Gemini Children’s Theater
Events are free. Call EEFC at 412-242-3598 to reserve your spot.
East End Food Co-op (EEFC) 7516 Meade Street Pittsburgh, PA 15208
http://www.eastendfood.coop/archives/4161
The Love Your Block initiative invites organizations to submit project proposals that can transform their blocks with up to $1,000 and the support of City Departments. With these grant funds, winning groups can purchase supplies, engage their neighbors, and roll up their sleeves to transform their neighborhood – block by block! Projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Creating Green Spaces: Community gardens, pocket parks, public spaces, or vacant lot cleanups
- Enhancing Parks: painting structures, creating garden beds, picnic areas, shrub / flower plantings
- Streetscaping: Planting trees & flowers along curbs / entry-ways, sprucing up neighborhood signs
- Removing Graffiti and Litter: Tire dumping, recycling waste, swapping graffiti for murals, etc.
- Sprucing up of Pathways: Mulching / clearing overgrowth on trails, creating safe school “walking” bus routes
For more info, go to
Saturday,June28 9 am – 1 pm Jefferson Middle School, Mt Lebanon, 21 Moffett St., Pittsburgh, PA 15243
ReuseFest Contact: Sarah Alessio Shea
Phone: 412.488.7490 ext.236
PRC.org
- Art Supplies paint, canvas, photographs, prints, artwork, brushes, pastels, scissors, etc.
- Backpacks and Similar Bags
- Bikes including bike parts and bike tools
- Board Games (all types)
- Books
- Clothing and Shoes
- DVDs (all genres)
- Home Furnishings: tables, chairs, stain and tear free upholstered items and mattresses
- Housewares
- Medical Supplies: wheel chairs, crutches, nebulizers, scrubs, prosthetics
- Pet Supplies: toys, bowls, crates, blankets, towels, neck or boppy pillows
- School supplies paper, pens, pencils, calculators
- Sporting Goods
- Useable Building Materials doors, windows, light fixtures, lumber (4’+)
- Vintage Items (for repurposing)
All partners reserve the right to refuse unusable materials.
Michael Thompson, our new Clean Pittsburgh steward for South Oakland, will be leading us for the next Pitt Make a Difference Day as we join with Pitt volunteers to clean up our neighborhood.
If you would like to join us on October 18th to help clean up South Oakland, please contact us at via SONG contact page,
call or text
For more info on Clean Pittsburgh, check out their website:
CITY OF PITTSBURGH’S SERVEPGH ANNOUNCES INFORMATIONAL SESSION ON UPCOMING ROUND OF LOVE YOUR BLOCK
PITTSBURGH, PA – (June 9, 2014) On June 16, 2014, City of Pittsburgh representatives will be on hand to discuss and answer any questions about the fall round of Love Your Block applications. Fall applications will be released on Thursday, June 19 and deadline to apply will be Friday, July 11.
This season, the City will award up to $1,000 to purchase supplies and tools to implement a block improvement project. There are minor changes to program delivery this season and this is an opportunity to field any questions or concerns from applicants.
The informational session will give prospective organizations a chance to ask questions about the process, inquire about resources available in addition to the mini-grant, learn how to identify the owner of vacant parcels, and more.
WHAT: servePGH’s informational session on upcoming round of Love Your Block
WHERE: City-County Building, CitiStat conference room 646, 6th floor, Grant Street side, 414 Grant St., Pittsburgh, PA, 15219
WHEN: 6-7 p.m., Monday, June 16, 2014
For more information, visit http://www.pittsburghpa.gov/servepgh/loveyourblock or email servepgh@pittsburghpa.gov.
“…in Oakland, right near Panther Hollow, something new has sprouted under the sun.
“We have enough solar panels right here to power 12 typical American homes and we use all that electricity to run this building,” said Richard Piacentini, the executive director of Phipps Conservatory.”
Public meeting with Bates Street project developer
Thursday, May 29th, 6:00 pm
Peoples Oakland, 3433 Bates Street
Oakland Gateway Ventures is proposing to develop a multi-story building at the corner of Bates Street and Boulevard of the Allies. The developer will present proposed plans to the community at this meeting. Please join us to contribute feedback on the project.
bates-blvd-proposed-development-meeting-may-29th.pdfInstead of the regular meeting on Thursday, 5/15 they will convene next Tuesday, May 13, at Bates Street to work with Western PA Conservancy on the hillside restoration. Stop in at any point between 3:30 and 7:00 pm to help beautify your neighborhood. They will be planting 500 ferns and 30 trees.
The City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Public Works, Bureau of Environmental Services will be collecting leaf and yard debris from all residents in a special curbside collection on Saturday May 17, 2014.
Yard debris should be placed at your normal collection site the evening of Friday, May 16th. All yard debris materials will be collected by City refuse and recycling crews and composted on Saturday May 17th
For more details on restrictions, check out the city website:
04/30 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 6:30 PM
Celebrate the Rain! Watershed Awareness/Rain Barrel Workshop
Nancy Martin, Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC)
Don’t miss out on an abundant, free supply of the earth’s most valuable resource–fresh, clean, rainwater! This workshop will demonstrate how to build a rain barrel that will harvest and store rainwater from your roof for use in your garden and landscape. Participants will return home with the knowledge and necessary hardware to assemble and install a rain barrel, in addition to a $10 coupon good toward the purchase of a 55-gallon drum at Penn Barrel Company. Learn how to practice watershed protection and conservation in your own backyard.
This event costs $50/person or $55/couple (payable to PRC); contact Nancy Martin at (412) 488-7490 ext. 247 or email her at nancym@prc.org to reserve your spot!
In anticipation of students moving out, OPDC launched a long-term Electronics Recycling Drive. Drop items off at OPDC office at 235 Atwood St between the hours of 8:30am and 5pm. Learn more about what is accepted here:
http://www.opdc.org/news/opdc-host-electronics-recycling-drive/