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9 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Read a great article on the Green Summit on LISC/Chicago's New Communities Program webiste. Click here.

EVERY 40 MINUTES

FREE buses will depart from

Villa Guadalupe, 3201 East 91st Street &

The Zone Youth & Community Center, 11731 S. Ave. O

Schedule of the day's events

All Day

FREE bus tours of 10th Ward green stewardship sites

For the map of the route, click here.

9 a.m. - 1p.m.

Bike Safety Rodeo & FREE Minor-Bike Repair Clinic with Mayor Daley’s

Bicycle Ambassadors & Chicagoland Bicycle Federation.  

Healthy South Chicago and Chicagoland Bicycle Federation

will collect used and discarded bikes.

9100 Block of South Brandon Avenue

10 a.m. - 11 a.m.

Global Warming Café, featuring speakers from

Chicago Low Carbon Diet

Villa Guadalupe, 3201 East 91st Street

11 a.m. - noon

Green Greystone Rehabilitation Workshop, presented by the NHS Historic Greystone Preservation Initiative

Claretian Associates/NHS, 9108 S. Brandon Ave.

10 a.m. - noon

Greening the Bush, a public planning charette for

South Chicago LEED ND facilitated by

Landon Bone Baker Architects

Villa Guadalupe, 3201 East 91st Street

10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Artistic performance by the

Zone Youth Environmental Initiative

The Zone Youth & Community Center, 11731 S. Avenue O

All Day

Screening of “The Evolving Calumet: A Journey,”

with Calumet Ecological Park Association

The Zone Youth & Community Center, 11731 S. Avenue O

All Day

Growing Power’s fruit & vegetable basket distribution

& cooking demonstration

Bush Community Garden of Hope, 85th St. & Buffalo Ave.

Participating organizations:

Claretian Associates
Calumet Stewardship Initiative
Association for the Wolf Lake Initiative
Bush Homeowners and Tenants Association
City of Chicago Department of Environment
City of Chicago Department of Planning & Development
Field Museum’s Calumet Environmental Education Program
Forest Preserve District of Cook County
Friends of the Parks
Healthy South Chicago
Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Knowledge HookUp
South Chicago Chamber of Commerce
Southeast Environmental Task Force
10th Ward Alderman’s Office
University of Illinois Extension
Villa Guadalupe Senior Services

 

 

 

 

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