GASPalerts: September 23, 2008
UPCOMING EVENTS
•GASP and Good Friends - Our 39th Annual Fundraising Event — IT’s NOT TOO LATE TO REGISTER
Saturday, September 27, 2008
2:00pm-6:00pm
Riverview Park Chapel Shelter, Pittsburgh, PA 15214
Join us on the North Side as we celebrate our accomplishments over the past year. Activities include a puppet show, music, arts and crafts, silent auction/raffle, food and fun.
$20 for adults, $10 children ages 6-10, Free for children 6 and under
View invitation and registration form here.
•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.
Print invitation
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.
•University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Center for Environmental Oncology’s fall newsletter, Healthy Choices, Healthy Lives
AIR QUALITY NEWS
CMU to study hazards of nanoparticles — http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/s_588947.html
“Potential ecological hazards of nanoparticles will be explored by a $14.4 million partnership between Carnegie Mellon and Duke universities, officials said today…”
S.O.N.S. opposes plant — http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS02/809210415/-1/NEWS
“Another environmental group has lined up against the tires-to-energy power plant proposed for east Erie…”