Andrew Butcher will tell us how hard it has been to create a green job in this city. He’s the Executive Director of GTECH (Growth Through Energy & Community Health) which works in Larimer, the North Side, and all around Pittsburgh, doing land reclamation (it seems they’ve planted around 35 fields of sun flowers which clean lead-ridden soil, along with stormwater management installations, along with a massive city-wide land cleanup partnership called SPARC), cooking oil waste reuse, consumer education & organizing around green economy-building--Larimer is where they're based and where I've personally seen them active at the Larimer Community Gardens, with the Larimer Green Team and Grow Pittsburgh, while branching out into places like the North Side with their Ambassadors program. Here at the start of a Natural Capitalism-style new green industrial revolution, it can be tough to get footing—we’ll see how they did it, what they plan to do with it, and just how much of a strain it was. More info here.
And we'll have plenty of time for QA during & after, and time for networking & conversation due to the informal style of open space meetings. :)
