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Content Creator, including photographs: C3 Blogger Tom from www.letUbeU.com Working Bikes Cooperative is a non-profit organization in Chicago devoted to the motto: Reduce Reuse Recycle. They collect neglected bikes and tune them up to reuse & sell. The revenue is used to ship the remaining bikes to different corners of planet earth so that a poor person in . . . → Read More: Dirty Hands at Working Bikes Cooperative
Explore Bike Maintenance Tuesday, January 31st 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. Working Bikes, 2434 S. Western Ave No registration necessary. For more information, contact volunteer@workingbikes.org. Come out and learn about bike maintenance at Working Bikes, a local non-profit that diverts bicycles from the waste stream by . . . → Read More: Working Bikes Cooperative Volunteer Night, Jan 31st, 5PM Most of us are guilty of leaving our car running while we sit and wait, and wait, and wait. Sometimes we’re waiting for a friend while parked in front of their apartment, other times we quickly run into a bank or coffee shop. What you may not know is that idling your car engine wastes fuel, . . . → Read More: How To Promote Healthy Lungs & Clean Air – Turn Off Your Car
Image courtesy of Active Trans Photo: Jason Greenberg Join the Active Transportation Alliance for the 2011 Bike to Work Week Commuter Challenge! Re-discover the joys of cycling and explore the utility and ease of cycling in an urban environment! Tone your muscles, support improve air quality, reduce your carbon output and make new friends. . . . → Read More: Get Tuned Up for Bike to Work Week, June 11-17 Come out to the Beauty Bar for a special night of performance, music, and conservation trivia. C3 Leader Somilia Rabee has pulled together an all-star cast of musicians in support of protecting the environment. Come out an show your support! Arrive by bike and get in free! Friday, June 11 The 4th Annual Chicago Virtual Charter School Field Day Event will be a lot greener this year as students incorporate green games with track and field events. Yvonne will coordinate the addition of a Green Resource Center designed . . . → Read More: Green Field Day June 11 9:30-12:30 at IIT Hello, I was looking at the Chicago Conservation Corps website today, and thought that your organization might be interested in participating in or promoting National Park(ing) Day 2008, an annual event, happening in Chicago on September 19th, which celebrates parks in cities by creating temporary parks in public parking spaces. National Park(ing) Day is an all-volunteer event, . . . → Read More: National Park(ing) Day, September 19th Department of Environment News and Opportunities – June 2008 How green is your workplace? The 2008 Bicycle Commuter Challenge is now open to all companies who want to compete to be the most environmentally friendly company in Chicagoland. Sign up now at www.biketraffic.org/commuterchallenge. Companies competing in the Bicycle Commuter Challenge strive to earn the highest percentage of employees biking for part or all of their . . . → Read More: Join the 2008 Bicycle Commuter Challenge, June 7-13 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 to . . . → Read More: Community Bike Programs Forum – Feb 9 Imagine a 3-mile-long elevated linear park running through the heart of Chicago, connecting neighborhoods, the river, and our great park system. Built from a former rail line, the Bloomingdale Trail will make us healthier, get us to school and work faster, and provide us with great chances to play and mingle. Join Friends of the Bloomingdale . . . → Read More: Envisioning the Bloomingdale Trail Exhibit Elaine Lemieux posted this comment on an older post, but it certainly merits more attention than that: Almost every day, I walk with my daughter to her elementary school. Personally, I am grateful to take time and walk this short distance with her. Unfortunately on our way to school we see on the . . . → Read More: Action on Vehicle Idling – the PURE AIR card 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 drive less. live more. It’s about providing you with information and real solutions regarding viable and safe travel alternatives to your existing daily commute. 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 panelists . . . → Read More: Climate Town Hall Mtg, Jan 20, 10a, Whitney Young HS Check out the Chicago BikeWinter — Schedule of Events which includes this: Winter Cycling Class in Little Village: Biking Keeps you Warm! Sarah and Nadia will share tips to help newbies try riding in cold weather–how to dress, be seen, and take care of your bike. This class is free! English and Spanish! We’ll have free snacks . . . → Read More: Winter Cycling Class From Cathy Becker: Okay, it’s not as cool as switching to IGO or riding your bike, but after browsing through this website you may want to! Thought this might be useful to help people understand “green” cars better. (If you are a non-geen car owner, try using the Calculator for a real . . . → Read More: Green Cars From theChicagoland Bicycle Federation: Armed in August with a $150, 2-by-5-foot aluminum sign, Lynn Romanek pitched the anti-idling suggestion to Glencoe District 35, where she carpools her 6th grader to Central School. Officials quickly warmed to the idea, and Romanek produced and donated a sign for each of the three buildings in the small kindergarten through 8th-grade . . . → Read More: individual action on car idling The more we are in the habit of walking, the less likely we are to use more destructive forms of transportation. Exercise your walking muscles! WHERE: Meet at Fireman’s Park, northeast corner of Milwaukee and Diversey sponsored by Logan Square . . . → Read More: Wed. Oct. 25 with Logan Square Walks The safer pedestrians and bicyclists feel, the less they’ll resort to cars. From the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation comes good news in that regard: The Complete Streets Policy is part of the city’s Safe Streets for Chicago program, which calls for stepped-up traffic enforcement, crosswalk awareness campaigns for motorists, new crosswalk safety technologies, researching and identifying trouble . . . → Read More: Great news for pedestrians |
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