Pittsburgh: Cleaning and greening its image

May 16, 2008, 5:20pm PDT | Length: 00:03:03
Pittsburgh is trying to shed its image of a gritty, grimy steel town one building at a time. Its convention center is one of the most environmentally friendly buildings of its size in the entire country. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi visits Steel City and takes a tour of the space that boasts an organic garden, its own water reclamation plant, and a smart cooling system. The building was awarded gold-level certification on the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ratings scale set up by the U.S. Green Building Council.
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No jobs,No jobs,No jobs!
pgm554 22nd May 2008
Pittsburgh has no jobs for high tech people.

Say what you want ,but as an expatriate now living in the Silicon Valley,the job growth rate there stinks and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

They can use taxpayer money all they want,but the place is a dead end for any body in the high tech biz.

You go to school.get a degree and then move to another area.

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