Blending Soil with Sustainability

Blending Soil with Sustainability

We planted kale and Swiss chard in our compost!  If you haven’t already noticed, our team geeks out over soil. You might even call us dirt nerds. From agricultural productivity to public health, the stuff under our feet is critical to our survival on Earth,...
Beltzhoover Compost Hub

Beltzhoover Compost Hub

The Lots of Pride garden in Beltzhoover serves as our research garden for urban ag and green technology. Operated by the South Hilltop Men’s Group, this garden has served as our testing and research site for soil remediation thanks, in part, to a grant from the...
Rainiest Season on Record

Rainiest Season on Record

While many people were counting down to midnight on December 31st, many scientists were closely watching a different countdown: the year-to-date precipitation data for Pittsburgh. Finally, at 4:55 pm, 2018 officially became the wettest year on record for the City. You...
Explore Green Tech with DECO

Explore Green Tech with DECO

DECO Resources moved to Pittsburgh’s Allentown neighborhood in early 2014 to join Work Hard Pittsburgh, a newly-opened business incubator. There, founder Anthony Stewart met, among other entrepreneurs, the team of Meta Mesh Wireless Communities. Meta Mesh was...
Project Stormwater

Project Stormwater

Many people in Pittsburgh are talking about green infrastructure. You might have recently read about local organizations like the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority using this term when talking about stormwater management or urban design strategies. As support...