A Profile of Pittsburgh as a Green City

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10 comments on “A Profile of Pittsburgh as a Green City

  1. APB says:

    I bet if those steel plants were still booming, the city would replace them with parks and paths to be green. Sure they would.

  2. RalphM says:

    Good thing they had those steel plants in WWI, WWII, Korea, right APB??? Don’t diss the people who helped provide the standard of living you enjoy today.

  3. Phil says:

    The G20 is getting Pittsburgh great publicity – which it deserves. It’s got it all: amenities, affordability, friendliness, the uniqueness that “strip mall” areas lack, even – in this economy – a better economic environment than the rest of the economy. What a gem.

    Let’s go Pens!

  4. magnolia says:

    fab story, thanks so much for posting. looks like a great place to live.

  5. Flatiron says:

    Sad thing is once you cross the Allegheny County line, it’s still “old Pittsburgh” in nearly all directions.

  6. Phil says:

    Flatiron, that’s true in just about every urban area in the country.

  7. phil swain says:

    I grew up about ten miles south of the Golden Triangle in the fifities and early sixties. I remember the nightly glow from the slag piles. It’s great to see Pittsburgh getting this good publicity.

  8. GillianC says:

    Thanks for posting this story about our beautiful city. While not a native, I’ve chosen to live here, and raise my family here. I can’t think of a better place for my kids to call home.

  9. Dana Henry says:

    I’m a native – and live about 10 miles outside of the city in Sewickley. We can hear the helicopters…. it is pretty cool that the G20 is here, and the city is getting great publicity. Pittsburgh is a great place to live – and worship!

  10. libraryjim says:

    Compared to most of the other ‘developed nations’ with a good sized population, the U.S. is a fairly green nation! We have cleaner air and water than most industrialized nations, and more farm-able land; we have huge tracts of forested land with wildlife thriving.

    Yet, to hear the President and the UN talk, we are the one with the pollution problem.

    Jim Elliott