GASPalerts: October 8, 2008
UPCOMING EVENTS
Wilkins School Community Center EcoFest
Saturday, October 11, 2008
10am - 2pm
Location: Wilkins School Community Center, 7604 Charleston Ave., Regent Square 15218
FREE to the public
Family activities, lunch available, plant flowers, art show, etc.
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Burning the Future: Coal in America featuring Director David Novack
Saturday, October 11, 2008
6:30pm
Presented by the Mountain Watershed Association & the Center for Coalfield Justice
David Novack will examine the impacts of the coal cycle, with an emphasis
on mountaintop removal mining, on communities and the environment.
Location: Melwood Screening, 477 Melwood Avenue, Pittsburgh 15213
A reception (food, drinks & conversation) will begin at 6:30 PM and the film will begin at 7:30PM.
Tickets are $15.00 for adults and $10.00 for students and can be purchased at the Melwood Screening Room either in advance or the night of the show.
For more information, please visit www.mtwatershed.com or call 724-229-3550.
2008 Good Government Award Dinner
Thursday, October 30, 2008
6:00pm
Presented by the League of Women Voters of Greater Pittsburgh
Location: Sheraton Station Square
Honoring: Carol R. Brown, The Center for Victims of Violence and Crime, Group Against Smog and Pollution, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, and Southwestern PA Program for Deliberative Democracy
Individual Tickets - $70.
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AIR QUALITY RESOURCES
•The GASPer Air Monitor is available for use by teachers and students during the 2008-09 school year. The monitor measures ozone, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and several other components in the air. Included, is the use of our hand-held particulate monitor as well. Make air tangible! For more information or to sign up for the program contact Lee Szymkiewicz at lee@gasp-pgh.org or 412-325-7382.
AIR QUALITY NEWS
Outdoor furnaces a burning issue — http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_591722.html
“Paul Laposky says smoke sometimes wafts into his house. The Ligonier Township resident blames his neighbor’s outdoor wood-burning furnace….”
HEALTH DEPT. OFFERS TIPS ON HOW TO USE OUTDOOR WOOD BURNERS — http://www.achd.net/pr/pubs/2008release/wood.html
“The Allegheny County Health Department is cautioning people who use outdoor wood burners such as fire pits, fireplaces and “chimineas” to minimize their emissions and avoid air quality problems.”
HEALTH DEPT. OFFERING GRANTS TO RETROFIT DIESEL SCHOOLBUSES — http://www.achd.net/pr/pubs/2008release/bus.html
“The Allegheny County Health Department is offering school districts funding to retrofit diesel school buses with devices that not only cut tailpipe emissions but also the air pollution that seeps inside a bus.”