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Tropical Treat Night at Garfield Park Conservatory

Wednesday, February 15th

3 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. (stop by anytime)

300 N. Central Park

For more information, contact 312-746-5100.

On Saturday, September 25, C3 leaders, teachers and students went above and beyond to protect our region’s greatest natural resource; the Great Lakes Basin by participating in the Adopt a Beach Clean Up Day. C3′s partner organization Alliance for the Great Lakes is the . . . → Read More: C3 volunteers make a big splash on Adopt-a-Beach Day]]>
C3 Southeast Regional Network Ashe Park Beach Clean Up 9.25.10

On Saturday, September 25, C3 leaders, teachers and students went above and beyond to protect our region’s greatest natural resource; the Great Lakes Basin by participating in the Adopt a Beach Clean Up Day. C3′s partner organization Alliance for the Great Lakes is the local impetus behind the mobilization around International Coastal Clean-Up Network. C3 volunteers could be found on beaches from South Shore to Rogers Park taking water quality samples and collecting garbage and recyclables.

C3 teams hosted the following sites:
Southeast Regional Network: 74th Street Beach
C3 Leader Suzanne Meyering: Howard Beach
C3 Teacher Steve Arnam and the C3 student club at Northside College Prep: Montrose Beach

The Southeast Regional C3 Network
Southeast side C3 leaders joined forces with C3 students and teachers through their participation in C3′s Regional Network initiative. Since August 2010, the Southeast Regional Network has been organizing community members for the Adopt a Beach event as a way to mobilize the community around an identifiable community conservation issues. Their team was made up for C3 leaders from neighborhoods throughout the southeast side and C3 teachers from Neil and Mireles elementary schools. In addition, they were joined by students from Neil Elementary School and the Sea Scouts from the Chicago Yacht Club. Additional support for this event was provided by Ashe Park Advisory Council members and officers, Alderman Sandi Jackson, Alliance For The Great Lakes, C3 Leaders, Calumet Stewardship Initiative (CSI),Subway Catering, Veronica Kyle from Faith In Place, Faye Patterson & Glenn Brooks of the C.A.P.S implementation office, Third District C.A.P.S. office, My Soul Cafe. El Barakah food store.

What are Regional Networks? C3′s Regional Networks are local hubs of C3 volunteers, both leaders and student clubs, that have joined together to address local community conservation initiatives that address regional environmental strengths and challenges. Find out more about how to get involved in the C3 Regional Network in your area.

Join the Alliance for the Great Lakes for this unique stewardship opportunity. On September 25 from 9am -12pm, volunteers will convene on beach-side locations throughout Chicago to demonstrate their commitment to Great Lakes conservation.

C3 leaders and teacher will be hosting volunteers at two specific sites:

Ashe Park Beach Clean Up Hosted by the . . . → Read More: Explore Environmental Stewardship: 9.25 Adopt a Beach Day]]>

Join the Alliance for the Great Lakes for this unique stewardship opportunity. On September 25 from 9am -12pm, volunteers will convene on beach-side locations throughout Chicago to demonstrate their commitment to Great Lakes conservation.

C3 leaders and teacher will be hosting volunteers at two specific sites:

Ashe Park Beach Clean Up
Hosted by the Ashe Park Advisory Council and the C3 Southeast Regional Network
2701 E 74TH ST

Montrose Beach Clean Up
Northside College Prep and the C3 Student Conservation Club
Montrose and Lake Shore Drive

Be sure to register today with the Alliance for the Great Lakes before it’s too late!

August 18th, 7:30pm showing of Shrek the Musical at the Cadillac Palace Theater (151 W. Randolph Street)

The Chicago Conservation Corps (C3) is teaming up with Broadway in Chicago and Dreamworks’ Shrek the Musical for a special night of “fun”draising in support of C3.

We invite you to attend this special event . . . → Read More: Buy tickets for Shrek the Musical and support C3]]>

August 18th, 7:30pm showing of Shrek the Musical at the Cadillac Palace Theater (151 W. Randolph Street)

The Chicago Conservation Corps (C3) is teaming up with Broadway in Chicago and Dreamworks’ Shrek the Musical for a special night of “fun”draising in support of C3.

We invite you to attend this special event in support environmental education. 20% of the proceeds from your ticket purchase will be donated to the C3 Student Clubs program, a program that support environmental education for CPS students. Be sure to use the promotion code CORPS when purchasing your tickets.

Note: C3 will ONLY be eligible for funds purchased using the code CORPS when you select your seats.
For more information view the OFFICIAL FLYER.

Email contact C3 with further inquiries at conservation@cityofchicago.org.
We look forward to seeing you there!

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 . . . → Read More: Green Field Day June 11 9:30-12:30 at IIT]]> Friday, June 11
C3 Trainee, Yvonne White-Morey:
On Track for the Environment –Greening a School Field Day Event
9:30 am -12:30 pm

The 4^th 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 to educate students and their families on Recycling/Upcycling options, Vermicomposting, improving indoor/outdoor air quality by making green cleaning solutions and taking alternative transportation, energy efficiency and water conservation. Students will receive refillable water bottles. Families will take the $800 Savings Challenge.

Following awards and raffle prizes, families will gather on the lawn of Illinois Institute of Technology for a picnic lunch and hear a green literacy reading of Seeds of Change by Author Jen Cullerton Johnson, from her book based on the life of Wangari Maathai, the first African woman and environmentalist to win the Nobel Peace Prize. (Four C3 leaders or trainees willing to make ten-minute presentations on the environment to students and families are still needed.) 

For volunteer opportunities, contact C3 trainee Yvonne: ywm@alumni.depaul.edu
773-944-0757

Gage Park C3 Club building a vermicompost bin

You can help protect one of the worlds most beautiful and diverse rainforest habitats when you participate and recycle with public schools in Chicago just in time for the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. Recycle Tech Solutions (RTS), a local cell phone & electronics recycler, is working with individual Chicago . . . → Read More: A FOREST FOR EARTH DAY]]> A Forest For Earth Day

You can help protect one of the worlds most beautiful and diverse rainforest habitats when you participate and recycle with public schools in Chicago just in time for the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day. Recycle Tech Solutions (RTS), a local cell phone & electronics recycler, is working with individual Chicago public schools through RTS’s Dream Green collection program. Our program goal is to collect 25,000 cell phones among the 600 Chicago public schools before Earth Day on April 22nd of this year. Please speak to your schools environmental leader about ways you can participate.

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest – Planting a Billion Trees Campaign

Centuries ago, the Atlantic Forest covered nearly 330 million acres, an area roughly the size of the eastern seaboard of the United States. Today only 7 percent remains, much of which is in isolated fragments. Home to 130 million people, the Atlantic Forest has taken heavy hits from urban expansion, coastal and industrial development, agriculture, ranching and illegal logging. Despite the forest’s diminished state, 70 percent of Brazil’s population relies on it for its drinking water.

How Can You Participate in A Forest For Earth Day?

One qualified cellular phone, Smart Phone, PDA device or MP3 Player plants one tree. It’s that simple. When you collect and recycle with Dream Green, you’ll contribute to the goal of planting a billion trees and help the Nature Conservancy protect and restore Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.

1-2-3 Easy Steps to Rewarding Recycling

1) Recruit your green team and set an initial collection goal of 200 cellular phones

2) Promote your program in newsletters, websites, letters, posters to local business’ and encourage students, parents, staff, teachers, PTA, community leaders to bring your school used cell phones, smart phones, PDA devices and Mp3 players to be recycled – I have 5 old cell phones at home!!!

3) Contact Dream Green (http://www.recycletech.org/dreamgreen.html) through the web at DreamGreen@recycletech.org and request shipping guidelines & postage – paid shipping materials after 50 phones / devices have been collected. We also provide postage paid envelopes for smaller shipments to be passed out to offsite locations.

RTS will donate $1.00 to the Nature Conservancy’s Plant a Billion Trees campaign in your schools name for every qualified phone collected. For more information on the Plant a Billion Trees Campaign go to www.plantabillion.org

As a bonus, for every location, when 50 or more qualified phones are recycled in a single shipment, you will receive from the Nature Conservatory:

· Personalized certificate with signature photo of the Atlantic Forest commemorating your generosity

· Colorful fact sheet about the Atlantic Forest

· Plant a Billion Trees magnet set

· World map

· Four issues of Nature Conservancy magazine to keep you informed all year about the many places the Conservancy is working to protect. (Plus, we’ll rush the current magazine issue along with your personalized certificate!)

· Great Places E-Newsletter subscription to our monthly e-communication with local conservation updates, enviro-tips you can use and stunning nature photography downloads.

Best of all, you’ll get the satisfaction of knowing you’re helping to protect this extraordinary wild habitat now and for future generations. Please help plant trees today!