Tweet “Families visiting the Green Kids Zone at Green Festival Chicago 2011 on Saturday, May 14 and Sunday, May 15 can enjoy a variety of physical, creative, and educational play activities, as well as lively entertainment presented on stage. On Saturday, this area was bustling with happy children doing everything from making newspaper shark fins at [...]
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Tweet “Visitors to Green Festival Chicago 2011 can learn about Mr. Ellie Pooh elephant dung paper, used by this eco-friendly fair trade company to craft gifts and other products to try to help the plight of elephants in Sri Lanka. The company’s line of merchandise includes a special children’s story book that explains the situation in [...]
Chicago’s Green Festival
May 17
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Tweet “The Green Festival is being held at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15, 2011. One million people are expected to attend the environmentally friendly festival, which promotes healthy living, environmental health and social justice. The weekend festival will be kicked off with a Green Ribbon Cutting [...]
Tweet Excerpted from: Taking Aim at Mutant Capitalism via Nic Halverson – Mindful Metropolis John Perkins, author of the New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, talks about his most recent book and how to create a more equitable and ethical economy Are you starting to see more companies—one’s that honor true [...]
Tweet CHICAGO IL – May 9, 2011 Governor Pat Quinn today announced a comprehensive proposal that will protect Illinois’ consumers by stabilizing energy bills, while creating thousands of jobs and encouraging investment in clean, renewable and reliable energy. The plan moves Illinois towards ensuring that 25 percent of our energy comes from renewable sources by 2025, [...]
Tweet CHICAGO, IL – May, 6, 2011 – Earth Share of Illinois, a nonprofit environmental federation, would like to announce their 2nd annual Revamped Fashion & Art Show. The Revamped Fashion & Art Show will take place on Friday, May 20, 2011, from 7:00pm-11:00pm, at the Bridgeport Art Center, 1200 W 35th Street, Chicago, IL. [...]
Tweet “This year’s annual Chicago Green Festival taking place on May 14th and 15th at Chicago’s McCormick Place Lakeside occurs as Green Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2011, with an updated interactive marketplace and countless learning opportunities designed to promote sustainability and interconnectivity within the green movement. Green Festival is a joint project of [...]
Tweet “Yoga isn’t limited to just a practice or exercise, to many of us it is way of life—a culture, even. Yoga is non-harming: this means we do no harm to ourselves, to others, and we can even go as far as to extend that belief to the environment. We cherish the air we breathe [...]