random news

Well, there's alot of news. 

Kevin and I have attended our first Chicago Conservation Corps (C3) session. (here's the C3 blog site) C3 is a Chicago Department of Environment program.  Very energizing. Around 25 people are designing environmental community projects. We heard from Margaret Frisbee, of Friends of the Chicago River, Joel Brammeier of Alliance for the Great Lakes, and Joyce Coffee of the Department of Environment, and Michael Howard of Eden Place Nature Center.

We were invited by Michael Howard to come to Eden Place on Saturday, October 21st.  Bobby and I are going in the afternoon and we'll invite others.  Later, we were given a demonstration on rainbarrel installation and a tour of the Center for Green Technology building. I really enjoyed seeing the rain gardens particularly.  I think we'll put on on Toad  Lane.  (the working name for our new co-op home)

We've had nine Green Dinners so far in Beyond Today.  Neighbors at each have shared their environmental ideas and brainstormed about our projects.  The committees are filling up and taking shape.  Thursday, Alderman Schulter and Debra Shore will join us at a final Green Dinner for this series, to celebrate the end of the planning and the start of the work. 

Gary Zuckerman, of Recycle Plus is going to install rainbarrels on Toad Lane soon.  That way, neighbors can see an example.  I'm thinking we should get several different rainbarrel types on our home so we can compare and get creative. 

There's lots more news, but it will have to wait because it's a beautiful day and it's a shame to be on the computer any longer.. Julie.