The eco-centrics introduces us to Sadhu Aufochs Johnston, Manda Aufochs Gillespie and their baby daughter, Zella Rose. Mr. Johnston is the Commissioner of the Department of Environment for the city of Chicago and he thoughtfully "walks the talk". A great piece, it outlines how "Chicago's First Family of Eco Conciousness" implements their personal green agenda at home - how they live, shop, clean, and get around.
Also from H&G this week:
The Tribune launches a Blog: Beth Botts is writing "The Chicago Gardener", a new Tribune blog. In addtion to her own new project, Beth points readers to other local garden bloggers in "From Winner to designer to blogger"...
Up on the Roof: Details on a prize winning rooftop garden in Lincoln Park.
Garden show on hold until 2008: Garden in a City is now slated to be a biennial event, up again next year. Too bad - we really enjoyed it last year and were looking forward to it...
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Just keep these people out of public office.
Everyone has a right to their beliefs but when these nut jobs start running governments they make a royal mess out of everything.
Case in point - I live in the Portland/Vancouver metro area. The Portland eco-dope-heads refuse to build any new roads or do any major improvements for 25 years because in their dim-witted view everyone will be riding bicycles by then. They've made the downtown area so "bicycle friendly" and "pedestrian friendly" that businesses are leaving in droves because they're failing - because the majority of customers *drive*, and refuse to go downtown anymore.
Nothing against people who bicycle to work, but it's people who drive that pay for the roads they bicycle on (gas tax).
I hope Chicago doesn't try to copy any of the hair-brained idiocy that Portland suffers from...like spending billions (literally) for "light rail" that does nothing to ease congestion - those same billions could have paid for new roads and made a real difference, but that wouldn't have been "politically correct".
Good luck, Chicago...
Chicago is working very hard to be a green city. No plan is perfect, but the city government is doing it in reasonable ways. Green roofs, incentives for people to build/remodel their homes in eco-friendly ways, giving away 500,000 CFLs, rolling out a city wide recycling program, experimenting with solar panels on bus stops and sidewalks made out of recycled materials, etc.
We were named one of the greenest cities in the US in 2005. http://www.thegreenguide.com/doc/107/cities