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New Initiative Puts Green into Action
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 by Emily McGinty, ’06, ’07
Green is a color Lori Gaido wears well. As the enthusiastic project manager for SCA’s new Green Cities initiative in Pittsburgh, Lori’s extensive background in environmental public policy serves her – and the city – well.
The Green Cities project is run by Lori and interns Karlyn Brochu and Sabrina Kay at SCA’s Three Rivers office in downtown Pittsburgh. Created to facilitate between Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s “city greening” initiatives and individual communities’ needs and interests, the team began their work last February thanks to a grant from Pittsburgh’s Richard King Mellon Foundation. Karlyn and Sabrina attend community meetings all around Pittsburgh, and are involved in many neighborhood-specific energy and environmental plans.
 The team’s goal is to help to create realistic action plans to reduce Pittsburgh’s residential carbon footprint. Given many communities’ lack of resources and funding, “going green” often starts on a small scale. Lori refers to this as “simple fixes…informing people about things like fluorescent light-bulbs and more efficient, cost-effective refrigerators.”
For more extensive fixes, the team is performing feasibility-analysis on groundwork already completed by groups such as Pittsburgh’s Green Government Task Force (GGTF). The GGTF has created municipality recommendations that promote energy efficiency and careful use of resources regarding living and building in Pittsburgh, as well as labeling the various areas and potential projects as ones of short-term or long-term concern.
As the Green Cities interns look at these municipal recommendations, they help identify long-term concerns that should be bumped to immediate, short-term projects, or vice versa. “We serve to balance community desires versus community need versus what is realistic, what can be done,” Lori notes. “The more exciting part of the Green Cities project is working with people who can help find solutions to the problems.”
It’s Lori’s hope that Green Cities will effectively implement action plans into communities’ visions for more sustainable living and development. She remarks, “There is a lot of opportunity for SCA. Green Cities is essentially a pilot project in Pittsburgh, and we are evaluating the feasibility of Green Cities projects in other locations…it’s something that would be very useful to smaller cities.”
As for SCA’s Green Cities Pittsburgh project, Lori is optimistic that new grants can keep her project running for years to come. While initial funding will sustain the program until February 2009, Green Cities’ positive role as a neutral actor between citizens and the city government makes the future for greener cities bright.
Photo: SCA interns Sabrina Kay (left) and Karlyn Brochu (right)
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