Join a student-led coalition of high school and college Climate Justice organizations for a rally at “The Cut” on campus at Carnegie Mellon University.

Join artist Aaron Henderson for evening projections that highlight the connection between energy and our fragile climate.

Join kayakers on the Allegheny River for a paddle to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center with signs and flags calling for a clean energy future.

Join us as we welcome an inter-tribal delegation of Indigenous artists and activists who have traveled from the Pacific Northwest to the 13th Clean Energy Ministerial in Pittsburgh, PA with a 14′ totem pole. A program of speakers, ceremony and song is open to the public.

Hear from local organizers and Indigenous, Appalachian, and Gulf South community leaders who are calling out false solutions and calling for clean energy justice.

This panel brings together frontline communities, including Indigenous elders from the Pacific Northwest and environmental justice advocates from rural Appalachia and the Gulf South. Drawing on intergenerational knowledge and the lived experience of struggle, speakers will shine a spotlight on the costs, public health impacts, and environmental damage caused by extractive and fossil fuel-based energy initiatives.

Join Beaver County residents Bob Schmetzer and Terrie Baumgardner, both members of Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (BCMAC), for a tour of the petrochemical buildout in Beaver County, PA.

Led by local residents and public health advocates, this tour offers a first hand account of what it is like to live and grow up in the most heavily fracked county in Pennsylvania, Washington County.

This half-day tour will begin in Hazelwood in Pittsburgh, the site of the largest solar array in Pennsylvania, before traveling to two environmental justice communities.