The G-20: 5 Green Things You Should Know About Pittsburgh

Thanx to the Pittsburgh police

Thanx for a job well done! If it weren't for you, us Pittsburghers would have had to defend our own territory. I thought it was hysterical to hear of fellow Pittsburghers standing outside their Bloomfield homes and businesses with bats and pickaxes. Because had that been my neighborhood, this docile mom would have been doing the same. Pittsburgh isn't your average city. We are one big, large, and very proud community. So in a sense, the law enforcement officers may have been doing the illegal protestors a very big favor.

The legal and peaceful protestors were great! It was nice having you visit!

Oh, and BlueBerry Pick'n, we get the "drift" also. We have very strict and costly emission controls on our cars to make up for pollution from other states. We also have very strict and costly controls on factories. Yet we will still have extremely rare days, that we have a high pollution index. And that pollution is not from Pittsburgh. So I can understand how you feel. And so does my wallet. Other states need to do their part.

Pixburger of PA @ Sep 27, 2009 04:15:54 AM

Setting the record straight

You refer to a building so ugly they had to cover it with a tarp? Are referring to the building at the point draped in a "Welcome to Pittsburgh G20 Summit" with Welcome in 20 languages? The reason the building was draped is not because it was so ugly and deemed a blight as you profess it's because that building, the Hilton Hotel, is undergoing major renovations and is an active construction site. Since it's prominent location is visible when entering the city, they decided to drape the construction site. So please, don't make things up.

C of PA of PA @ Sep 25, 2009 20:32:30 PM

1 more green thing about Pittsburgh

All of the major media have missed the story of Nine Mile Run, a once polluted stream in the city that was left for dead, a casualty of the steel industry flowing between two enormous slag heaps. Nine Mile Run is the largest urban stream and aquatic ecosystem restoration project completed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2006 at the cost of nearly $8 million dollars. Read more at http://www.ninemilerun.org

John Moyer of PA @ Sep 25, 2009 11:16:54 AM

Barbara

Paul, you are dangerous and crazy. Wake up ! You are not alone on this Earth. Our democratically elected President is giving example to the rest of the world and you are just a tool of discord and hatred. Shame on you !!!!!!!!!!! BTW, your anger will kill you, buddy.

Barbara of PA @ Sep 24, 2009 20:05:06 PM

Pittsburg may be "clean"

but the **pollution drift** from the American Rust Belt managed acidify & to kill off all the lakes in Nova Scotia & New Brunswick.

& wrecked havoc on the Grand Banks fisheries.

The lakes of the Eastern provinces were *destroyed* along with much of the ecosystems of those regions, mainly from the pollution drift.

Out of sight, out of mind! or is it 'gee, who cares what happens to non-Americans?'

keep your pollution to yourselves.

we've had enough 'American gifts', thanks.

Homeland Security continues to 'give' the World so much we already don't want...

BlueBerry Pick'n @ Sep 24, 2009 19:05:16 PM