Pittsburgh’s energy-saving 2030 District leads 22 cities in North America
Pittsburgh is the North American leader in terms of size out of 22 international 2030 Districts a voluntary effort to get property owners to commit to reducing energy use, water consumption and emissions usage by 50% by 2030. In addition, new construction and major renovation projects have committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 as part of the effort.
Pittsburgh has more than 86 million square feet of property dedicated to the 2030 District, encompassing 556 buildings. (New York City has so far committed only 21 million square feet of buildings). The world-renowned South Side-based Green Building Alliance, which has been spearheading the effort since 2012, calculates that this has meant savings of $205.8 million in energy and water costs, and 1.85 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions avoided since 2012. Pittsburgh is also the first 2030 District to collect data on indoor air quality.
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Many colleges saw declining enrollment last fall and spring due to the pandemic, including the Community College of Allegheny County.
On today’s program: Community College of Allegheny County’s vice president of enrollment management discusses enrollment changes during the pandemic, what comes next in the summer and fall; Pittsburgh Public Schools are scrambling to hire more bus drivers ahead of all students returning to in-person school on May 3; and a look at the reputation of U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman in Braddock, where he served as mayor for 13 years.
Community college enrollment is down due to the pandemic
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Community college enrollment booms when the economy busts.
That was an accepted fact, proven time and again during the cycles that characterize the U.S. economy. But the covid-19 pandemic, which sent the world into a series of lockdowns, shattered that pattern.
Although the region’s community colleges were expecting an enrollment surge last fall, they saw just the opposite, as did community colleges across the country.
While enrollment in postgraduate degree programs inched up sufficiently to offset undergraduate enrollment declines at many of the region’s four-year institutions, enrollment at community colleges, the two-year public institutions that are a gateway to higher education for hundreds of thousands of Americans, declined.