Andrea Crary watched as a volunteer harvested chard from the aquaponic farm in the darkened basement of The Plant, located in Chicago’s Back of the…
Midwest Urban Farmers Meet at the Plant in Back of the Yards
Posts tagged as “Eco-Environment”
University of Sustainability
Local college and university representatives joined together recently at the Green Town Conference hosted by Columbia College Chicago to discuss making school campuses more sustainable.…
Health Concerns About Demolition At Proposed Olympic Village
Terry Clark has lived at the Prairie Shores apartment complex in Bronzeville for 43 years. For the last couple of weeks though, his allergies have…
Plan Commission Approves High Rise For Grossinger Dealership Property
Gary Grossinger walked out of the Aug. 20 Chicago Plan Commission meeting grinning ear-to-ear. The commission had just approved a developer’s plan for a 15-story…
Weatherization = Energy Conservation + Jobs
By Deborah Alexander of LISC Chicago’s New Communities Program Residents of four New Communities Program (NCP) neighborhoods completed training for entry-level, green-collar jobs earlier this…
Open Streets Is Back But New York Ups The Ante
By Patrick Barry of LISC Chicago July 6, 2009 – Remember Sunday Parkways, that experiment last fall that closed down Chicago boulevards to cars and…