Green concerns

== Green living should be more than an after thought.==
Our priorities need to be reset. Our actions need to follow our priorities. 
==Links==
* Recycle
===Nine Mile Run===
The state of the environment is a high priority. The city needs to put higher priorities on not only the protection of our natural spaces, but make solid, sustainable plans for improving these settings.
The Nine Mile Run project had merits because it was to address the runn off and the tributaries. However, the US Army Corps of Engineers stopped work on that worthy project. The houses had already been built. The priorities were backwards. 
As mayor, the city nees to make green elements more than an afterthought. 
====History====
The restoration of Nine Mile Run in Frick park was expected to be a part of the overall Nine Mile Run project. In 2004, the work was stopped. The funds, $1.5-million, were only restored by the US Army Corps of Engineers in October, 2004. Federal funds were needed to proceed with work of reconfiguring the run and its tributaries, and to do plantings on adjacent land up to Commercial Road, according to USACE project manager, Lenna Hawkins.
The contractor suspended operations in the summer of 2004 when funding stopped. 
Some $1.8 million was still needed to complete the project.
===Ecology===
* Clean air
* Long wall mining
* Rivers
* Trees
* Sierra Club example
* Clean water
* Mercury
* Indoor air
* Clean Cruise Ships
* Reurbanise
* Hazardous site cleanup fund
==Green development==
# Green Buildings
==Links==
===Media===
* It's getting much easier to be green in Pittsburgh from the Post-Gazette in November, 2006. Good overview of various projects.
===Blogs===
* http://bioeverything.blogspot.com/ from Jim McCue
category:wellness