September 26, 2019 Hal B. Klein 412 Food Rescue, the Pittsburgh-based non-profit with a mission to help alleviate hunger by rerouting food that might otherwise have been discarded, has, to date, rescued more than 6.8 million pounds of surplus food. Those comestibles typically come from grocery stores, bakeries, commercial food producers, large catering events and farms (in […]
July 20, 2018 Rossilynne Culgan More than a dozen local restaurants are trying to collect a million drinking straws through early fall so an artist can turn the ubiquitous plastic tubes into a public sculpture in Pittsburgh. “We just really saw this opportunity especially with all of the attention that’s being put toward plastic straws […]
How many times have you enjoyed an incredible meal at a Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurant and asked yourself “I wish I could cook like that?” Now is your chance — and dinner, as they say, is on us. Enter to win our Chef to Table contest where you and five guests can partake in the epicurean experience […]
Marie Fazio June 18, 2018 When Tori Maatta of Oakland goes out for a meal at a restaurant or orders a drink at a bar she always tells servers that she doesn’t need a straw. She’s usually carrying a retractable reusable one on her keychain. She can’t help that servers often bring them out before […]
Well, that was great fun –our first appearance on KDKA-TV’s Pittsburgh Today Live! Thank you host Heather Abraham and the wonderful Dennis Marron, Executive Chef and owner of or, The Whale, for helping us kick off this new monthly feature highlighting Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurants. WATCH the segment and let us know how we did! And […]
We’ve always been big fans of Pittsburgh Today Live. KDKA-TV’s weekday morning show does such a great job of covering our community and all the people, organizations, and movers-and-shakers that give our region its verve and vitality. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be going on the show every month for the next […]
