Permaculture and Sustainability ANNOUNCEMENTS --Compiled by Chicagoland Urban Permaculture Group (CUP)
Best to verify all information, in case of changes.
** Home Hints
Sprouting: Winter Gardening - easy, nutritious, inexpensive
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/living/articles/sprouting.htm
Simplifying your life? Take the online survey
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=872961927600.
*** NEW
* Biomimetic Biofuel Potential
Mixed prairie plantings on degraded land, => 2-5-fold net energy return
and also are significantly carbon negative. 7 December 2006
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1207/5
* Latest in local green homebuilding http://greenbean.typepad.com/
* UN report: cattle greatest threat to climate, produce 18% of greenhouse
gases. http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2062484.ece
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Since climate change is here, and could be horrific:
1) See An Inconvenient Truth on global warming, starring Al Gore, with our planet's story.
Find showings in the area http://www.climatecrisis.net/findatheater/
Teachers get free copy < 11/18 http://www.participate.net/educators/ 50,000 copies available
Also If your school hasn't < 1/10 http://focusthenation.org/eblog/
2) Join a Global Warming Solutions Action Group for Chicago and Illinois.
http://actionnetwork.org/elpc/
3) Related free videos are:
* David Attenborough's Climate Chaos
Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/640x480/xmq0n
Part 2: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/640x480/xmy11
* Global Dimming
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1027879546389218797
OPPORTUNITIES for ecological living
* For Rent - share large 3 floor home - garden,
Eco-living intentional community possibilities.
Pulaski/Lawrence area. (773)283-0133 or 860-3296.
* Intentional Community forming in Woodlawn.
ChicagoHippyHouse@yahoo.com
Continuing Through January 6
Sustainable Architecture in Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art,
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=52
** Additional Selected Events COMING UP
Sunday, January 7, 10am-1? Stelle intro, (near Kankakee)
http://www.centerforsustainablecommunity.org/monthlyopen.html
Tuesday, January 9, 12:15pm-1pm Shanghai's Ecological Cities
New Urban Settlements, Gary Lawrence, Arup
John Buck Company Lecture Hall Gallery
ArchiCenter, 224 S. Michigan. Free
http://www.architecture.org/programs.html#sustainable
Wed, January 10, 7pm. Alliance for a Post Petroleum
Local Economy (APPLE). UU Church of Elgin
http://oilawareness.meetup.com/259/
Wed, January 10, 7pm. Chicago Peak Oil
Energy Awareness Oriole Park Library, 7454 W. Balmoral
http://oilawareness.meetup.com/277
Thursday, January 11, 6pm, Natural Builders Meetup
Funky Buddha Lounge, 728 W Grand, Chicago
http://naturalbuilding.meetup.com/4/?gj=sj3
Saturday, January 13, 9-11:45am Voluntary Simplicity Chicago
Also Northwest Suburbs (2nd Wednesday)
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/VSChicago/
Tuesday, January 17, 5:30 -7pm 21st Century Chicago Plan
Benefits of 3-8 Chicago Zoning Ordinance changes.
Garden for every home. Zero Energy House, Zoka Zola, 0/$15
AIA Chicago, 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 1049
http://www.aiachicago.org/events.asp
Wednesday, January 17, 5:30pm-9:00pm Chicago Green Drinks
7-8 pm discussion - Local sustainability organizations
Jefferson Tap & Grill 325 N. Jefferson Cost: $5/2
http://www.foresightdesign.org/events/ (312) 670-7812
Saturday, January 20, 10:00 a.m. - noon
Town Hall Meeting on Global Warming
Whitney Young High School, 211 S. Laflin, Chicago,
http://www.climatechicago.org/
Thursday, January 25, 7 pm Chicago New Urbanism &
Sustainable Development Meetup,
Starbucks, 828 N State. http://newurbanism.meetup.com/21
January 29 - February 2 Campus Climate Challenge
Put the heat on a new Congress. So far at NEIU, Truman College, UIC,
Get your local campus involved
FREE Inconvenient Truth DVD
http://www.climatechallenge.org/
Monday, February 5, 7pm Chicago Environment Meetup
Mystic Celt, 3443 N Southport
http://environment.meetup.com/251/
Wednesday, February 7, 7-9 pm Urban Permaculture: Food Growing
Learn how to apply permaculture to urban living, home or apartment. Food/fertilizer, indoors/out. With Bill Shores, a professional organic grower. Includes a demonstration of indoor salad greens production. http://sustainCUP.blogspot.com/
North Park Village Nature Center, 5801 N. Pulaski; Chicago
** For MORE SUSTAINABILITY RELATED EVENTS see **
* Green Tech classes: www.cityofchicago.org/Environment/GreenTech
* Greening Calendar quarterly http://www.greennetchicago.org/
Find community gardens in your neighborhood
* Conscious Choice Calendar http://consciouschoice.com/
* Get involved in restoring our local natural capital (nature)
At North Park Village Nature Center. Wednesday/Sunday. 9 am -12
Sites on the Chicago River http://www.northbranchrestoration.org/
Other places in Northern Illinois http://tinyurl.com/ok8cx
** UPDATE ** City's New Recycling & Drop-Off Centers
During 2007, blue cart recycling will be coming to wards 1, 5, 8, 19, 37, Wards 46 & 47. In the meantime, deposit unsorted recyclables (including #3, #4, #5 & #7 plastics) in the boxes at 15 Chicago Drop-Off Centers. The Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento is one of the sites. http://tinyurl.com/cmeb4 And for electronic and hazardous wastes, the Household Chemical and Computer Recycling Center, 1150 N. North Branch St. on Goose Island, is open Tues 7am-noon; Thurs 2-7pm; & 1st Sat 8am-3pm. Info call 311, http://tinyurl.com/wg4y3
** CLOSING CONCERNs **
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2116873.ece
World faces hottest year ever, as El Niño combines with global warming
..."essential" that a global agreement on emissions is struck quickly.
...[expect] extreme weather ...for at least the first four months of 2007
...[perhaps] lasting up to 18 months,... 01 January 2007
