Archive for March, 2028
Friday, March 31st, 2028
Breaking out of your comfort zone
Do you ever feel like you’re in such a rut that you want to step out of your body and yell at yourself?
Gretch and I had one of those weekends where we had very ambitious and interesting plans (go see the new stuff at the museum, jam out with friends at 1 am in the […]
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Monday, March 27th, 2028
Getting the go-ahead
I’ve been writing about my internship at CRR for a while now, and it’s really been a tremendous experience thus far. Just this morning, though, I got the big news–we got the go-ahead to move forward with the Polish Hill project!
As I mentioned earlier on, this project was different than other projects CRR has […]
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Sunday, March 26th, 2028
Creative Civil Disobedience - Pittsburgh Style
Has anyone noticed how much public art there is in Pittsburgh? Even on some of the most random, out-of-the-way streets, I’ve managed to catch a glimpse of beautiful pieces done on the sides of buildings, intricate chalk-art on the sidewalk, or beautifully worked storefronts. There’s been a lot of efforts in Pittsburgh throughout the years […]
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Saturday, March 25th, 2028
SSP Alum Network
I attended a meeting of Students for a Sustainable Pittsburgh for the first time in a while last night, and I’ve missed a lot of stuff. The last thing I mentioned was how they were lobbying the city to enact the Open Doors Initiative, which is a program to make it easier for […]
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Friday, March 24th, 2028
Bustin’ a Move in Bloomfield
Given that today seems like a beautiful, if crisp, day, I think I’m going to see if I can get some folks together tonight to cut a rug at a bar/restaurant in Bloomfield called Manic Attic. It’s a small place (as all places in Bloomfield are), but they have a house band that plays […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2028
Biodiesel Initiative
I mentioned a few days ago how I was going with some other CRR folks to meet with a local biodiesel manufacturer. As it turns out, we met with them at exactly the right time.
Unlike the ethanol craze in the late 2000s, biodiesel never saw a major spike in popularity, followed by a downturn–it’s always […]
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Saturday, March 18th, 2028
San Diego n’ at
Last week, Gretch and I went over to sunny San Diego for a few days. It was a nice trip–I have family out there, so it was nice to see them, and although Pittsburgh rocks my socks, it’s hard to beat San Diego weather.
Gretch and I went out one night with one of my cousins […]
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Friday, March 17th, 2028
Vendor Outreach
For the past few months, I’ve been almost solely working on the community outreach portion of my internship at CRR. Last week I got a glimpse at another side, vendor outreach, and it’s a completely different animal.
The community side is a lot of canvasing, petitioning, meeting with people–things that any community organizer would be […]
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Sunday, March 12th, 2028
Spring Break!
Gretch and I are doing something we never ever do–have fun over spring break! Usually, mine is spent catching up on work that I didn’t do during the beginning of the semester, but hell, it’s my last one, so I might as well make it memorable.
Gretch also has some vacation time saved up (thinking about […]
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2028
Femiyinz!
So there I am, hanging out at my favorite little café after work, waiting for Andi to show up so she can tell me all about her law school classmates’ drama and I can tell her the cute things my girls did today. I’m leafing though this magazine we got at the office this week […]
