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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 to . . . → Read More: Volunteer for Christmas tree mulching project 1/12/08 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 pollution, . . . → Read More: Native Garden on Chicago’s South Side 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. . . . → Read More: Something’s Blooming in Marshall Square 2006 was an outstanding year for M. Grace Designs, highlighted by being featured in the Chicago HOME magazine, Chicago Luxury Home and Condo, StyleChicago, Garden Design magazine, and Spectacular HOMES. In addition to our business endeavors, we are actively involved with the Chicago Conservation Corp, and the Chicago Department of Environment leader training. As a (C3) . . . → Read More: Recycle Our Water Bottles 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 takes . . . → Read More: Convenient Truths: A Green Video Contest If you would like images or text about your project immortalized in a Cool Globe to be shown on the lakefront this summer, please forward any photos,copies of photos, text etc to me at tkr454(at)yahoo.com or mail to 2127 W.114th Pl Chicago Il 60643. My globe will be about C3′s community effort to combat issues such . . . → Read More: C3 help for a “Cool Globe” Grace is a C3 leader and invites you to get involved in her project to make a difference: The 49th Annual Chicago Air and Water Show shakes up the From Nancy Johnson about her project event: The Hollywood – North Park Community Association and the Chicago Conservation Corps invite Chicago Residents to a Free showing of the Movie “An Inconvenient Truth.”The Movie night is Friday February 16, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. in the Auditorium at Northside College Preparatory High School, 5501 N. Kedzie Ave. Chicago, IL . . . → Read More: An Inconvenient Truth showing This from Sharon Rolek on her Recycling Map project… My C3 Community Project is The Lake Calumet Area Recycling Drop-Off Site Map — since we are at the end of the earth and not part of the Blue-Cart Program. We want to include as many different types of sites as possible (i.e., clothes, craft items, etc.). . . . → Read More: Recycling Map Project Update From M. Grace Sielaff: What you can do? As a (C3) project team member, our project is to help recycle water bottles and to prevent them from entering the waste stream by collecting the water bottles, and encouraging others to do the same, for the 2007 Air and Water Show. Project Title: Water Bottles C3, Chicago Conservation Corp liaison: Joyce . . . → Read More: Water Bottles, get involved!
As her first C3 project, Carla Winterbottom built the box she’s showing off in this picture. It has one standard bulb and one new cool fluorescent bulb, with a switch and an electric meter. You can switch between the bulbs and SEE the difference in the speed of the meter. She was . . . → Read More: Cool Demo, Cool Lighting, Cool Savings 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 is . . . → Read More: Getting Started in Calumet 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 plan . . . → Read More: Resources for developing your project 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 each . . . → Read More: Links and Docs from Air & Energy Class 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! Next class . . . → Read More: First Training Course Begins |
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