Chicago Environmental Organizations, Museums, and Efforts
Local City/Goverment Environmental websites
Chicago Environmental Information Websites (events, calendars, jobs, blogs)
Environmental Resources, Businesses, and other useful stuff.
Media: Local, then national
Environmental Activism: Local, then national
Recommended reading
http://www.calumetstewardshipinitiative.org
Chicago Environmental Organizations, Museums, and Efforts
Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization.
The Wild Ones North Park Village Nature Center Chapter: contact BOB PORTER,
President: (312) 744-5472
e-mail bob.porter@chicagoparkdistrict.com Meetings are usually held the second
Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. at the North Park Nature Center, 5801 N. Pulaski
Rd., Chicago, unless otherwise indicated.
The North Branch Restoration Project
Local City/Government Environmental websites
The City of Chicago's Department of Environment and Center for Green Technology
Chicago Conservation
Corps Blog
Chicago Environmental Information Websites (events, calendars,
jobs, blogs)
Chicagoland
Environmental Network; Green Events, Green Jobs, Volunteer Opportunities.
Environmental Resources, Co-ops, CSA's, Businesses, and other useful stuff.
Real Goods: Products for an ecologically sustainable future.
Media:
News Traditional
WBEZ http://www.wbez.org/
BBC World http://www.bbcworld.com/
Bill Moyers: NOW http://www.pbs.org/now/
Al Jazeera http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage
Common Dreams http://www.commondreams.org/
Z Net/ Z Mag http://zmag.org
Mother Jones http://www.motherjones.com/
In These Times http://inthesetimes.com/
Democracy Now! http://www.democracynow.org/
Democracy University (buy cheap compilations of excellent video, current events, chomsky, zinn, mumia, etc) http://members.aol.com/democracyu/
Environmental Activism: Local, then national
Recommended reading
http://www.inhabitat.com/
Future-Forward Design.
Wisconsin Vascular Plant Species (A nice site to help identify plant species)
http://www.chicagosolarpartnership.org
http://illinois.sierraclub.org/chicago/
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
City of Chicago Dept of Environment
THE GREATER ROCKWELL ORGANIZATION
Green Power Locator
