The holidays come but once a year, but it’s not just their memories that can last a lifetime. Unfortunately, the season of generosity and merriment can leave a lasting impact on the environment too. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, Americans discard 25% more trash than they do during the rest of the year. This totals 2 [...]
Department of Environment News and Opportunities – June 2008
- June 7: Household Chemicals & Computer Recycling Facility Open
- June 9-11: NeoCon at Merchandise Mart
- June 13: Bike to Work Day Rally
- June 21: Environmental Resource Event at U.S. Cellular Field
- June 30: Registration Deadline for Solar PowerUp! for Kids
- Alert: Protect yourself and your family [...]
From our friends at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum:
Climate Change in Illinois
Wednesday, January 16, 6:30-8 p.m.
In partnership with Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet
The heat is on! Climate change will continue to be a major concern in 2008.
Cherry trees blooming in January, polar ice caps melting at an alarming rate, and warming [...]
Elaine Lemieux posted this comment on an older post, but it certainly merits more attention than that:
Almost every day, I walk with my daughter to her elementary school. Personally, I am grateful to take time and walk this short distance with her. Unfortunately on our way to school we see on [...]
I wanted to pass along this great news I just read about Columbia College Chicago:
ColumbiaONLINE: Your source for news and information on the Columbia College and community.
February 22, 2007
VOLUME 4, NUMBER 9
Wind Power to Provide 30 Percent of Columbia’s Energy
The college has entered into a two-year agreement with Community Energy, Inc. to purchase 4,410 megawatt [...]
Join folks throughout Chicago for a film festival focusing on energy issues — ranging from fuel-efficient cars, to light switches, to international energy policies. Where we get our energy and how we use it are topics that are rapidly rising to the top of the list of concerns in America.
This film festival offers us an [...]
From theChicagoland Bicycle Federation:
Armed in August with a $150, 2-by-5-foot aluminum sign, Lynn Romanek pitched the anti-idling suggestion to Glencoe District 35, where she carpools her 6th grader to Central School. Officials quickly warmed to the idea, and Romanek produced and donated a sign for each of the three buildings in the small kindergarten through [...]
Thanks Payton for the link to the Sun Times urban heat island map (pdf).
Thanks to all for a great class on Saturday! For a closer look at some of the graphs and other images that were presented, check out the Air & Energy Full Presentation (pdf/1MB). Please don’t forget the Self-Test and Homework (.doc), too.
A refresher on the project homework: go back to your asset map and for [...]
Air and Energy time! In the class on Saturday (9:30, June 3, CCGT), we will move very quickly through an initial overview of the range of challenges and opportunities relating to these resources so that we can spend more time in discussion.
If you’d like to get familiar with some of the concepts before the [...]