Tag: sustainability

Planting Day for the Newborns

Interested in creating healthy communities for newborn children? Care about the natural environment around Pittsburgh? Volunteer with Plant Five for Life on one of the 3 planting days during a shift of your choice! Pittsburgh Botanic Garden is generously hosting the first pilot planting of 5000 trees for 1000 newborns. 1,200 were planted in April and on October 17, 24, and 27, we will plant 3,800 more. Work will involve planting restoration size trees and securing deer protection at a former coal mine site. Bring your friends! Complete our sign up form by clicking the ticket button or by copying this link: https://goo.gl/forms/RXK1ch7fRZeJhUQ72

Planting Day

Interested in creating healthy communities for newborn children? Care about the natural environment around Pittsburgh? Volunteer with Plant Five for Life on one of the 3 planting days during a shift of your choice! Pittsburgh Botanic Garden is generously hosting the first pilot planting of 5000 trees for 1000 newborns. 1,200 were planted in April and on October 17, 24, and 27, we will plant 3,800 more. Work will involve planting restoration size trees and securing deer protection at a former coal mine site. Bring your friends! Complete our sign up form by clicking the ticket button or by copying this link: https://goo.gl/forms/RXK1ch7fRZeJhUQ72

UPMC Magee Tree Giveaway

In order to better communicate our mission of connecting children and their families with nature from birth we are hosting a tree giveaway in Magee Women’s Hospital cafeteria and need your help to ensure a successful day! Volunteers will discuss our mission and inaugural planting project with Magee faculty, staff, and patients and give away trees to take home, educating recipients on planting and maintenance.

The Steel City Big Pour

The Steel City Big Pour helps to support Construction Junction’s mission of reuse and conservation by raising much needed funding to expand programs like job training, community outreach, & more. Enjoy one of the largest beer & food selections of any event in the Pittsburgh area. Live art, music, raffles, & more.

Session Times:

12:00 – 3:00PM

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

TICKET INFORMATION

Ticket Prices:

$75.00 | Big Pour General Admission

$35.00 | Designated Driver (no alcohol)

General Admission price includes: Taster Glass, Brew Caddy, Big Pour App available for download and all fees & taxes (except mobile delivery, if selected).

Additional Purchase Options: A Big Pour t-shirt, available in either black or gray and will be mailed directly to you just in time to wear on the big day (no in-store pickup available).  A limited supply of shirts will be available the day of the event – ORDER YOUR SHIRT with your ticket purchase.

* Must be 21 or over to attend… including all designated drivers! 

* ID required. No children… no one under 21 admitted.

For-Profit Cooperatives: How They Work

DIGGING IN TO DETAILS

Cooperative business worker-owners make about 15% more than workers in conventional business and have more say in working conditions. Cooperatives also tend to have higher growth rates and are more responsive to their communities and resilient throughout business cycles.

Learn the nuts and bolts of a cooperative business:

legal form, finance, and how efficient decisions are made

Ecosystems: A Happy Hour with NSR projects, partners, + friends

ECOSYSTEMS – A happy hour with the partners, projects, and friends of New Sun Rising – all are welcome. Come and cross-pollinate.

strengthen your local networks
cross-pollinate ideas and projects
learn about fiscal sponsorship + Launch programs available through NSR
explore the intersections of Culture, Sustainability, + Opportunity

FREE DRINKS available thanks to PENN BREWERY, games, + light snacks

Please RSVP via FB or email amy@newsunrising.org so that we have a general count, thanks!

After the event, join us as we walk down the street to Grist House, Bado’s Pizza will be parked outside.

Brrrr… What’s going on with that climate change?

Posted on by Dan Stiker

A re-blog from the Millvale Community Library…

Zaheen Hussain, NSR Director of Sustainability, has just published an article on the MCL Blog that speaks to the nuances between weather and climate and what that means in the context of Climate Change.

Read the full article here.

Interested in learning more?  Join us at the Millvale Moose on Thursday, February 22nd at 6PM for a friendly conversation on climate change.  We will walk through the latest research together to gain an understanding of why the climate is changing.  Skeptical of climate change or still unsure?  You’re more than welcome, as we always appreciate a healthy conversation.