2008 Chicago West Nile Virus Public Education and Community Outreach Campaign
West Nile Virus infection (WNV) is an illness conveyed to humans primarily by mosquitoes. In most cases, people infected with WNV either show no symptoms or have very mild flu-like symptoms, called West Nile fever. WNV is an urgent issue that needs to be taken […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kevin Walsh of Chicago Peak Oil recommends The Story of Stuff, calling it “a great animated movie, which can be downloaded for free, that shows the story of resources from extraction, production, distribution, consumption to disposal.”
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) needs to hear from you to limit U.S. Steel’s discharge to Lake Michigan!
Action Needed Now:
· Attend EPA public hearing Dec. 11 or submit written comments
The U.S. EPA has scheduled a public hearing on Dec. 11 in Gary, Ind. to invite comments on a draft water pollution discharge permit […]
ENERGY SAVING EVENT
Sponsored by Gregory Bratton
Chicago Conservation Corp Trainee & Healthy South Chicago
Friday, November 2
Friday, November 9
Monday, November 26
5pm—7pm
Ada McKinley
8458 S. Mackinaw Ave
Chicago Illinois 60617
Free Energy Saving Light Bulbs
Free Weatherization Kits (November 9, 26)
And Energy Saving Tips
If you would like to help Gregory with his C3 project, email him at gbratton9396@yahoo.com.
Check out Fall 2006 C3 Leader Robert Aguilar’s video projects at the sites below.
This is the submitted video for the Treehugger.com contest.
http://truths.treehugger.com/normal/convenient_truths_the_top_twen.php
- What Can Regular People Do About Global Warming?
- Carrying Power: Solar Energy On The Go
This submitted version is broadcasting on CurrentTV.
-Sun Powered Purses
This is a submitted shorter version that is in a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Carla Winterbottom sends this book recommendation…
The End of Economic Growth, by Charles Siegel
Many people have become disillusioned with economic growth during the last few decades, not only because growth causes environmental problems but also because the rising standard of living brings diminishing satisfaction.
Using historical and international comparisons, this book shows that the United States reached […]
This from MoneyWeek recently…
“A typical meat-eating, milk-guzzling Westerner consumes as much as a hundred times their own weight in water every day,” says Fred Pearce, former New Scientist news editor and author of When The Rivers Run Dry.
That’s because it takes between 2,000 and 5,000 litres of water to grow one kilogram of rice, 11,000 […]
Carla Winterbottom shares this chance to chat more globally…
From Anthropocentrism to Ecocentrism: Making the Shift
You are invited to EcoRes Forum, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to the free exchange of knowledge and ideas concerning society and climate change, invites you to join us for the first in a series of online e-conferences focusing on the […]
…for TWO Greenest Cities.
See WorldChanging.com for what’s happening in Los Angeles.
Mayor Villaraigosa has made it one of his goals to transform Los Angeles into “the greenest big city in America.”
Looks like we’ve got our work cut out for us here in Chicago.
Join the WorldChanging.com team in Chicago?
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 […]
A special exhibition opens Friday, November 17th, and runs through January 5th, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Betty Rymer Gallery.
Negotiated Localities
Reception: Friday, November 17, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. with artists’ discussion at 4:00 p.m. and curator remarks at 6:30 p.m. Reception will conclude with an Open Mic by Collective Inferno.
Curated […]
At Saturday’s C3 re-gathering, Julie passed around the Sun Times Homes section from 11/10 featuring Sadhu Johnston, Commissioner of the Department of Environment. Sally Duros, Real Estate and Homelife Editor, also writes about Green Drinks and more about Sadhu Johnston that didn’t make it in the newspaper.
Thanks Payton for the link to the Sun Times urban heat island map (pdf).
Here’s a collection of interesting local, organic, community, and/or green websites I’ve found recently:
Beyond Today - an organization (and a blog!) for Chicagoans who want to do more about the Environment and Social Justice. Interesting because they link to us (yay!) have great local and national links, innovative actions, and because somebody from their group […]
I saw An Inconvenient Truth this weekend — and had a devilishly exciting idea afterward:
Somewhere between 1000 and 1500 copies of this film will hit video stores all over Chicago on November 21st. The website displayed at the end of the film has almost no links to Chicago.
But I want to talk […]
C3 partner organization, Faith in Place has just released the list of more than 140 congregations that will host screenings of An Inconvenient Truth, many of them for free. If you haven’t seen the flick, this would be a good time. Most of them happen in early October, but some later in the […]