Schenley Plaza wins international award

Schenley Plaza won the Silver Award in the Environmentally Sustainable Project category at the 2009 International Awards for Livable Communities (LivCom Awards) held October 8-12 in the Czech Republic city of Pilsen. Meg Cheever, President and CEO of the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy presented the project to a panel of judges and an audience representing 15 [...]

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5 Reasons to Register for 3 Rivers Bioneers

The annual Bioneers conference is a gathering of visionary leaders proposing breakthrough solutions for people and the planet.  And now, for the first time ever, Bioneers is coming to Pittsburgh!  The 3 Rivers Bioneers conference takes place October 16-18 at the Pittsburgh Project on the North Side.  As a satellite conference of the Bioneers event, [...]

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Design your own park!

he Parks Conservancy is looking for design-minded park lovers to create a space for this year’s National PARK(ing) Day! The event, held this year on Friday, September 18, is an opportunity to celebrate parks in cities and promote the need for more parks by creating temporary public parks in public parking spaces. PARK(ing) [...]

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Save on shoes and help the parks!

Need to complete your Hat Luncheon outfit, or just working on creating your spring wardrobe?  On Wednesday, April 22, Footloose’s Shadyside location celebrates Earth Day with a special celebration that benefits the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy.  From 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., Footloose will offer a 10% discount on all purchases, and 10% of all items sold will [...]

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Art in Bloom

 
The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy is pleased to share news of another event that’s sure to be of interest to those who appreciate fine flowers.  The Women’s Committee of Carnegie Museum of Art will present Art in Bloom, a celebration of art and flowers, from April 16 - 18, 2009.  Floral designers from area garden clubs will [...]

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UEC fosters collaboration

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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The Burgh and the Bees at Bioneers Monday

Here’s a cool event that should interest all you ecologically-minded folks out there.  The Parks Conservancy has some folks involved in the very worthwhile effort to bring the Bioneers conference to Pittsburgh, and they’re hosting a series of Monday-night events with cool guest speakers.
The next Bioneers Monday event will be March 30 at 6:30 p.m. [...]

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Calling all amateur DJs!

Wanna be a DJ?
f you have an MP3 player and an hour for lunch, we want you to share your favorite tunes with us at Schenley Plaza!  We’ll be opening the Plaza soon for the 2009 season, and we’re looking for music enthusiasts to create playlists for the lunch hour several days a week.  We’ll [...]

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How Schenley Plaza lights up the night

Those of you passing by Schenley Plaza in the evenings lately may have noticed a few swaths of green glowing from the middle of the lawn.  This “foliage” is the first step in our third Plaza lighting project, and will grow–from leaves, to stem, to blooms–into five 16-foot-tall daffodils over the next few weeks.  The [...]

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Oasis in the City: Mellon Square is an Icon of Modernism

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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