Department of Environment News and Opportunities - May 2008
- May 10: Smart Home Green + Wired
- May 10: Green Your Closets and Drawers
- May 15: Daley Plaza Farmers Market
- May 17: Clean and Green
- May 17-18: Green Festival
- May 17-18: Great Chicago Places and Spaces Tour
Smart Home Green + Wired
- Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m. […]
Education and fashion unite to promote a smarter, greener future for Chicago
What: Pivot, Chicago’s first eco-boutique, hosts an open house event to benefit the Academy for Global Citizenship, a new Chicago Public Contract School on the Southwest Side. Opening for Kindergarten and First Grade students in August 2008, the school aims to be a national […]
Dear C3 Community,
I was a Spring 07 C3 trainee and am happy to announce that I have planned my project and would love for you to join me! This September I opened Pivot - Chicago’s first boutique devoted to eco-fashion. It’s been wonderful introducing people to fabrics such as organic cotton, bamboo, soy and others. […]
Emily Rothenberg posted this in an earlier comment thread about taking action on food safety:
Worked on a campaign called BioETHICS2006 last year, all about food policy around GMO’s and genetically-engineered meats and dairy. It’s so scary that they’ve done that - what a step backwards, gosh. Feel free to visit www.genewise.org if you are interested […]
C3 Leader Elizabeth Wyman says:
Whether you eat meat or not, here’s a little something you may want to read this from the Consumers Union (Consumer Reports).
In late December, the FDA decided that milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring are safe to eat. This means that within a few months, FDA […]
Channel your inner eco-critic. Seventh Generation, Inc. and TreeHugger.com asked citizens to share their solutions to climate change. Help out our expert judges by watching and rating the submissions.
I submitted two videos to the Convenient Truths: a green video contest.
My first film asks “What can regular people do about global warming? This film […]
Urban Permaculture Applications: Food Production Plus
Wednesday, February 7th, 7-9 pm
Learn how to apply permaculture to urban living.
Even if you have limited indoor growing space, producing more of what you eat, may be increasingly valuable. Learn about home or apartment-scale growing systems for producing your own food and fertilizer, indoors or out. Featuring Bill Shores, a […]
Home tip from Living Gently Quarterly:
When the price of head lettuce climbs to $2.50 or more per head and the frigid arctic winds are rattling the windows, you can still enjoy freshly grown produce. And, you don’t even have to leave your home. It doesn’t require long-range transportation from warmer or tropical climes nor energy-intensive […]
From http://www.cnt.org/calendar:
Take part in this engaging town-hall style meeting about real solutions to curbing global warming, participate in Q & A with panelists, and connect with dozens of grassroots organizations.The event features Sadhu Johnston, Commissioner for the Chicago Department of Environment, with Rev. Calvin S. Morris Ph.D., Exec. Director of Community Renewal Society moderating, and […]
Learn some basics about wild yeast through bread making, pickling and the fermentation of honey. Free (reservation required).
SOURDOUGH - Thursday, November 16, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
PICKLES - Sunday, November 19, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
MEAD - Wednesday, November 29, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Nance Klehm is a practitioner of ad-hoc urban growing and foraging. She is […]
The Chicago Tribune did a nice story last week on Shelly Herman (no relation) and Irv Cernauskas, owners of FreshPicks, local organic delivery.
They live in the city and have connected with a number of local farmers. They deliver $15, $25 and $40 boxes of fresh, organic, in-season produce weekly or every other […]
This post initiates a new category, Green Business. I’d like to start posting not only the names of businesses we think are run in environmentally friendly ways, but also what it is that they are doing that we think is so friendly. We need to define the category, not just fill it […]
During the Air & Energy Class, there was a lot of discussion around sustainable argiculture. We’ve located links to lists of Illinois CSA’s (Community Supported Argiculture) and Chicago Farmers Markets.
We’ve also included a hefty paper titled Diet, Energy, and Global Warming which disusses the “Meat vs. Cars” idea brought up during class.
Finally, we […]