The Parks Conservancy would like to invite fellow park lovers to a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday, October 26 at 9:30am to celebrate the beginning of a comprehensive trail and signage improvement project in the parks. We’ll meet up in the Lower Frick parking lot off Lancaster Avenue in Regent Square and be joined by representatives [...]
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Posted in Ecological Restoration, Newsletter Articles, Pittsburgh, tagged Bioneers, ecology, Parks, Pittsburgh, Urban Ecology Collaborative, Urban EcoStewards, volunteers on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the full-length version of an article excerpted in the Spring 2009 issue of The Voice.
For the past seven years, the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy has been a part of the Urban Ecology Collaborative (UEC). This multi-city network was founded in Boston to connect non-profits in metropolitan areas with missions relating to the ecological health [...]
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Posted in Newsletter Articles, Schenley Park, Special Events, tagged benefit, fundraiser, Parks, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Schenley Park, Spring Hat Luncheon on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Few Words with Spring Hat Luncheon Co-Chairs Peggy McKnight and Susie Dorrance
The Schenley Park Overlook will be flooded with a parade of hats on Saturday, May 2. Two of our dedicated co-chairs for the Spring Hat Luncheon discuss the vitality of this fabulous event.
Over the past decade, the Spring Hat Luncheon has evolved into [...]
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The Spring 2009 edition of The Voice will be coming out in a couple of weeks. We always seem to have more content than we anticipate. Sometimes that means cutting bits and pieces from articles and including the full story on our blog, but sometimes it means that we have to cut the entire story [...]
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Here’s the second in our series of full-length articles whose abridged versions appear in the Winter 2009 Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy newsletter. We apologize once again for the incorrect links in the print version!
Among Pittsburgh’s many “firsts” is Mellon Square–the first modern garden plaza built over a parking garage, and a forerunner of today’s green roof [...]
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Posted in Frick Park, Newsletter Articles, Pittsburgh, Schenley Park, tagged Carnegie Mellon, gigapan, Parks, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, robotics, technology on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Winter 2009 issue of the Parks Conservancy newsletter, “The Voice,” features an interview with one of our board members, Illah Nourbakhsh, Assistant Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. For this and upcoming issues, we’ll be posting longer versions of some of the articles here on the blog. (I also apologize for [...]
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