You care. Do Something. We’ll Help. The Chicago Conservation Corps is now recruiting for its Fall 2008 Leadership Training Course. Orientation sessions take place in August, classes begin in September. During the training, you’ll learn from community and environmental leaders about urban environmental challenges and opportunities for change; then you’ll lead an environmental service project […]
Bill Wilson of Midwest Permaculture says Permaculture is a creative and artful way of living, where people and nature are both preserved and enhanced by thoughtful planning, the careful use of resources, mimicking the patterns found in nature (bio-mimicry) and a respectful approach to life. Thus embraced, these attributes create an environment where all may […]
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 […]
You care. Do Something. We’ll Help. The Chicago Conservation Corps is now recruiting for its Spring 2008 Leadership Training Course. Orientation sessions take place in February, classes begin in March. During the training, you’ll learn from community and environmental leaders about urban environmental challenges and opportunities for change; then you’ll lead an environmental service project […]
Educational Programs: A list by the Calumet Stewardship Initiative (CSI)
The Calumet Stewardship Initiative (CSI) lists several educational programs on its website http://www.calumetstewardshipinitiative.org - click “Education”. The Calumet Stewardship Initiative envisions a Calumet region marked by vibrant communities and cultures, healthy natural areas and a strong economy. Toward this end, the Calumet Stewardship Initiative engages residents […]
Northwestern University’s School of Continuing Studies is offering this 3-day program, Green City Summer Institute, “that explores Chicago as one of America’s greenest cities.”
Visit http://www.scs.northwestern.edu/summernu/programs/greencity.cfm to register or to find out more.
The Cook County Forest Preserve District is hosting the next 7-week TreeKeepers training session at the FPDCC Volunteer Resources Center on Chicago’s North Side, beginning this Saturday, March 3. For more information and to register, visit
http://www.openlands.org/reports/TKBrochureSpring07.pdf or call 312-863-6259.
TreeKeepers are volunteers who have become certified by Openlands to give trees the care and maintenance they […]
You care. Do Something. We’ll Help. The Chicago Conservation Corps is now recruiting for its Spring 2007 Leadership Training Course. During the training, you’ll learn from community and environmental leaders about urban environmental challenges and opportunities for change; then you’ll lead an environmental service project in your community with C3 support and resources. For more […]
Here are some useful resources to keep in mind when you’re developing your project proposal:
Project Proposal Worksheet: Please fill out this form by hand or type it up and submit it to your C3 liason by Friday, June 30.
12 Step Project Process Document: The steps to follow as you work with your C3 liason to […]
Thanks for a great final class! We were very excited to hear your project ideas, and we’re looking forward to working with you on finalizing your proposals and implementing your projects, whether you’ll be carrying them out now or after the fall classes.
We handed out a Course Evaluation on Saturday. Please send […]
Thanks to everyone for another great class Saturday. Who knew water could be so fun? Here are the materials and info you need to prepare for our last class, Community Organizing, on June 17.
Class To Do’s
- Self Test and Water Audit homework
Project To Do’s
- Contact and meet with potential partners from your asset map. Use […]
*note: we have updated this post with the final version of the Water class.
Get ready for Water! (Saturday June 10, 9:30, CCGT) Here is a DRAFT of the Water Class powerpoint if you’d like to review it before Saturday. We aim to move through this quickly so we have time for more discussion. We […]
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 […]
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, […]