What We Read in March

We’re rounding up the best articles in sustainability, green building, development, and more every month! Check out the articles GBA staff learned from this past month:

Local

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is investing big in Downtown - NEXTpittsburgh

Pittsburgh offers funds for office-to-residential conversions - Building Design + Construction

Ambitious Oakland Plan revamps zoning to drive change - NEXTpittsburgh

Pittsburgh’s bikeshare system, POGOH, grows by leaps and bounds - 90.5 WESA

Growing Greener Plus bringing $1.2 million to Allegheny County - NEXTpittsburgh

Bus rapid transit project groundbreaking to begin in Pittsburgh this fall - 90.5 WESA

Buildings

Reintroducing the Climate Toolkit for Interior Design - Metropolis

An Arizona plant will pull CO2 from the air and trap it in concrete - Canary Media

Children's Museum of Pittsburgh helped design a school for kids - 90.5 WESA

Changes to ICC building codes development process aimed at more in-depth vetting of proposals - Building Design + Construction

Breaking the ‘urban doom loop’: The future of downtowns is shared prosperity - Brookings

Clean Energy 101: Geothermal Heat Pumps - RMI

Embodied Carbon 101: Building Materials - RMI

Energy

As Millions of Solar Panels Age Out, Recyclers Hope to Cash In - Yale E360

There's a push underway to help more US farms save big with clean energy - Canary Media

Why Aren’t More Solar Farms Built on Municipal Landfills? - Governing

Chart: Clean energy to make up 84% of new US power capacity in 2023 - Canary Media

Raycycle won't let Pittsburgh's cloudy days block solar installation - NEXTpittsburgh

Justice

The case for climate reparations in the United States - Brookings

The women who stood with Martin Luther King Jr. and sustained a movement for social change - The Conversation

Biden administration pledges $25 million to bring bison back to tribal lands - Grist

NYC adopts e-bike rules with focus on fire safety and equity - Canary Media

Climate

How Weather Forecasts Can Help Dams Supply More Water - Yale E360

A Matter of Time: Three Ways to Clarify Emissions Data - RMI

Climate damage is worsening faster than expected, but there's still reason for optimism – 4 essential reads on the IPCC report - The Conversation

Biodiversity

Can insects have culture? Puzzle-solving bumblebees show it's possible - 90.5 WESA

‘Historic moment’ for nature as Europe’s first wild river national park announced in Albania - The Guardian

Scientists are using machine learning to forecast bird migration and identify birds in flight by their calls - The Conversation

Under-appreciated ways wildlife are part of carbon equation - Anthropocene Magazine

Health

How the EPA's 'neighbor' rule will impact pollution in and from Pennsylvania - 90.5 WESA

Women for a Healthy Environment improves quality of life - NEXTpittsburgh

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