Volunteers are needed to help restore a 1-acre pond and wetland at Humboldt Park in the summer of 2008. Meet new friends and neighbors while you help enhance and beautify this nature area.
Saturdays, August 9th, September 13th - 9am - noon
ยท August 9: Come out […]
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 […]
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. […]
From our friends at the Southeast Environmental Task Force:
Recycling: Why? and How?
Join us for our first monthly Environmental Workshop!
This month the topic is RECYCLING. Learn why it is important to recycle and how to recycle most affectively. There will be speakers from the Chicago Department of Environment and the Chicago Department of Streets and […]
Illinois Rain Garden Initiative
The Illinois Rain Garden Initiative is designed to empower students and communities to confront local flooding concerns, restore native Illinois prairie habitats, and learn about green solutions to storm water management. The Lieutenant Governor’s Office will award 22 grants of $500 each to plant rain gardens. Eligible organizations include public […]
Attend the Community Bike Programs Forum Saturday, Feb. 9, 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Hyde Park Art Center, 5020 S. Cornell Ave. The forum will introduce many different types of existing and possible future bicycle programs based in communities and supportive resources in Chicagoland.
The forum presentation is by the Chicagoland Consortium […]
Of the 25 billion single-serving plastic water bottles Americans use each year, 80% end up in landfills. Recycle your water bottles and, better yet, choose to re-use a refillable water bottle made of a refill-safe material. (BeGreenNow.com)
Last year on August 18, 2007 during and after the Air and Water Show, my group of 15 dedicated […]
Sherry Williams, Director of the Bronzeville/Black Chicagoan Historical Society, is looking for community garden volunteers to support a proposed African Heritage Garden planned for May 2008. The proposed pilot garden site and project orientation will be on the Southside - near 89th & Cottage Grove Ave.
If you are interested in volunteering or learning more about […]
Ross Peterson, Vice President of the Jackson Park Advisory Council is looking for natural area restoration volunteers for Jackson Park, Humboldt Park and other areas of the Chicago Park District. As part of this recruitment, he is asking volunteers to think about attending the Herbicide Training and Testing Workshop at the Brookfield Zoo on January […]
Dear C3 alumni,
I hope you are all having good luck with your projects. I’ve been working with the Bureau of Forestry, Chicago Park District, Wrightwood Neighbors, C3, and Scott Waguespack - 32nd ward Alderman on enhancing the current Christmas tree mulching program.
This year’s tree mulching event takes place January 12, 2008 from 8:45am […]
Bridget Carey, a C3 trainee, has partnered with Walker Branch Library to create a native garden. The goals of this project are to establish a community group that will oversee the garden, and teach the community about the benefits of native plants. We also want to educate the community about water conservation and […]
Ted Ernst’s Marshall Square Parkway Garden Club project is blooming in some pleasantly surprising ways. Check out how he’s turning a toilet paper question into a community garden answer.
This post is from a blog comment by M. Grace Sielaff
Bioremediation can be defined as any process that uses microorganisms (Microorganisms - a tiny organism such as a virus, or protozoan, or bacterium that ca only be seen under a microscope), fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return the environment altered […]
Do you want to take your smelly garbage out into the cold, dark alley more frequently? What a hassle. Do you want to feel more anxious about identity theft? No way. Do you have a basement or a dark corner?
Learn to conveniently compost kitchen scraps, credit cards bills, even grocery bags! High […]
Members of the HUB Housing Cooperative in Little Village started the 24th/Marshall Neighbors Community Garden on Sunday with plants from the City’s Perennial Divide, including two rose bushes, two hydrangias, a half dozen day lillies, a couple of purple coneflowers, and much, much more. There’s still time to sign your community group up for […]
Joann Podkul and Kevin Murphy are not fully certified (technically, because they still have one class to complete in October) but they are already busy on something.
Their project is the beautification of 100th Street between Avenues G and J on the Far South Side down the street from where they live. It […]
Did you know that Cook County has 67,000 acres of forest preserve land? That’s 11% of the county, and is more land than the entire city of Washington, DC. The District is 61 square miles, less than 40,000 acres.
One preserve in particular, Busse Woods, has more visitors annually than Yellowstone National Park, […]
Here are the slides from the 5/20 Land class (5.6MB) in case you’d like to refer to it in the future. It’s a pretty big file to download, so let me know if you’d like me to send it to you in smaller pieces. Some of the historical maps and photos came out pretty well, […]
The first cohort of twenty-six C3 leaders attended their first of four training sessions this past Saturday. The focus was Land and presenters included Department of Environment staff Suzanne Malec, Kimberly Worthington and Aaron Durnbaugh; Friends of the Forest Preserves Executive Director Benjamin Cox; and Angela Sturdevant of the Chicago Park District.
We’re on our way!
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