In this podcast, you’ll hear Jessica Schrum, intern from the Student Conservation Association, discuss her experiences at PennFuture with Joylette Portlock, PennFuture’s western Pennsylvania outreach coordinator. They are the women who are leading the charge to make Pittsburgh “even cooler” by helping residents make measurable reductions in the heat-trapping gases they produce. The Black and Gold Goes Green Campaign works with Pittsburgh’s citizens, helping them take concrete actions to reduce global warming pollution and its impact on the local economy and public health.

This week the campaign announced that Chatham College, United Jewish Federation, East Liberty Development and Sustainable Pittsburgh were the winners in their respective categories of the Black and Gold Community Challenge. The winners prevented the release of about 800,000 pounds of heat-trapping gases during a two-month period.

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