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Friday, 16 October 2009 21:02 |
By Christine Wellman
You just met Dr. Who and he has given you an opportunity to join him in the TARDIS for a journey to the year 2025. What will Rogers Park be like?
Where will the food we eat come from? Will we still be buying it from chain grocery stores? What will be the state of public transportation? Will cars be as numerous? Will they be mostly gasoline powered or hybrids? Will more people be riding bikes?
Will there by more retail stores in Rogers Park? What will they be selling? What sort of services will be available? Will there be community gardens? What sources of energy will people use to power and heat their homes and businesses? What jobs will people have? Will they commute to those jobs or work in Rogers Park?
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Friday, 10 July 2009 20:46 |
By Francis Scudellari
On June 30, I had the pleasure of watching a thought-provoking new food documentary: FRESH by ana Sofia joanes. There are two characteristics that make the film particularly interesting.
First, there is its depiction of a new breed of farmers from around the country who combine the latest technology with age-old farming techniques in trying to combat industrialization and bring some sanity back to the way we produce our food.
Second, there’s the fact that the film currently lacks a distributor and showings of it are being organized at a grass-roots level by community members who have been energized around the new food politics through movies like Food, Inc. and books such as The Omnivore’s Dilemma (authored by Michael Pollan, who is featured in the film).
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Saturday, 30 May 2009 04:33 |
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 By James Ginderske
Tiffany Wilson’s biannual tradition of coordinating the Chicago River Cleanup at Diversey Avenue continued this spring, producing the usual odd mix of detritus along with a surprise guest.
Tiffany inherited the job from her sister Tara who now works in the National Park at Alcatraz Island in San Francisco. Twice a year, Tiffany gathers a group of Edgewater and Rogers Park residents to scour a small wetland section at the bend at Diversey Avenue.
No ordinary trash collection, the wetland acts by design as a filter to trap trash as it makes its way on the current, and also includes various large items people throw over the fence into the water.
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Friday, 12 June 2009 04:28 |
Bob Rudner asks, "What is it like to live inside a flower?"
When Paolo Soleri was about 30, he was waiting tables at Taliesin West when he scribbled on a napkin a rough diagram for a thirty-story reinforced concrete flower. As one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s apprentices, he observed the solar angles that optimized the structure’s ability to utilize light and transfer heat.
After he married Colly, the daughter of his first construction client, and built a house shaped like a flying saucer near Cave Creek north of Phoenix, Paolo Soleri set off to invent a form of organic architecture that sustained not only the humans within but worked to protect the wild.
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 17:32 |
 By Robert Rudner
Since mid-March the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) has displayed the life’s work of one of the planet’s greatest geniuses: Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983). April’s Earth Month even featured some of his contributions to the environmental movement.
Geodesic domes, Dymaxion shelters and car, synergism, tensegrity spheres, Bucky Balls and other ideas fill the fourth floor of the MCA at Mies van der Rohe Plaza and Chicago Avenue downtown. Soon after the Summer Solstice, the exhibit will be history, and Bucky’s world will fill the memory banks of all who witnessed his works.
Fuller once lived on Belmont Avenue, and in 1923 he almost became another suicide statistic one morning by Lake Michigan until he realized just how much the world needed him. This was after his daughter’s untimely death and he stopped his downward spiral to the lake bottom by initiating a phase that would make ecology personal.
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