Tag: Pittsburgh
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Honeybee Swarm Delays Flight at Pittsburgh International Airport
The queen led her minions to the engine of a Delta airplane, delaying the flight until the protected bees could be professionally removed
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Most Popular Articles of June: City of Tulsa Destroys Woman's Edible Garden, Hilarious Prank on Shell, and More
How can a city destroy an edible garden on private property without legal permission? We also have the viral party-gone-wrong prank on Shell, the 12 most toxic fruits and vegetables, and more.
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Think Air Quality Regulations Don't Matter? Look at Pittsburgh in the 1940s!
These days when we think of eye-watering, lung-blackening smog, we mostly picture Chinese cities. But China's not special, it's just that they are industrializing later than others. The situation was similar in many areas of the United States...
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Creative Recycling: Thieves Steal An Entire Bridge
Ambitious thieves spend a month torching apart a Pennsylvania bridge
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Walking and Biking in Pittsburgh (Video)
There are 446 Bridges, Most with Pedestrian Sidewalks! This great video by our friend Clarence over at StreetFilms gives an excellent overview of Pittsburgh's bike culture and infrastructure. Having never been, and because Pittsburgh isn't as well
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Trend Watch: "Green Wrap" Virus Spreading As Major Bank Turns Plant Wall Into Billboard
PNC Financial Services Group, based in Pittsburgh PA, has built a plant-covered exterior wall, "to make its headquarters building more energy-efficient." Looking like one of those huge billboards seen along an
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Is Brooks Running the Best Green Source for Runners?
You a runner? Or an exercise-oholic? And you want your workouts to reflect your green lifestyle? Well, the race is ON or at least for me and a few friends to find the best performing green running equipment.
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Green Jobs Conference a Success
The reports are in from last week's "Good Jobs, Green Jobs" conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., and attendees are saying it was a great success. More than 1,100 people attended the Blue Green Alliance conference. People networked, listened to speakers and
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Taking Back the City: studio d'ARC Live/Work
There are so many missing teeth, so many vacant lots in so much of rust belt North America. We showed how Superkül took back a sketchy main street store in Toronto for their live/work space; Now Azure Magazine shows us how
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When is a Green Prom not Green?
When the press coverage is completely off the mark. There's an article in the Pittsburgh-based Post-Gazette about an attempt to organise a green prom at the City Charter High School. At first glance it appears that all the students took the bus to the
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Summer Sights: The Duncan House
Another summer site that is now open is the Duncan House, a Usonian design by Frank Lloyd Wright that was moved from Chicago to Polymath Park, a resort near Pittsburgh. Usonian houses were "ypically small, single story dwellings without a garage or
