Eco-Justice Collaborative

Time to Move Chicago Off Coal

admin — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:05:51 +0000

Photos by Pam Richart, Eco-Justice Collaborative and Charles Miller Clean Power Advocates Visually Illustrate Fatalities from Chicago’s Coal Plants Ask Mayor Emanuel, City Council to Move Chicago Off Coal On Wednesday, February 15th, supporters of the Chicago Clean Power Coalition gathered in the City Council Chambers to call attention to the fatalities caused each year by the coal [...] [...]

Farming in the ‘Hood – Preparing for the Future!

admin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:06:00 +0000

An Urban Farm … Coming to Rogers Park! Eco-Justice Collaborative is taking a lead role in its work with Rogers Park Farms to bring about an urban farm as part of a mixed use development in one of Chicago’s most diverse neighborhoods. The project, which will be located on slightly more than an acre of land [...] [...]

Transforming Community!

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:53:31 +0000

Start a Transition Town Initiative in Your Community! EJC co-founded the transition towns movement in Rogers Park in 2009 as a way to lower our ecological footprint, build resiliency through local solutions to today’s challenges of peak oil, climate change and the economy – and foster community relationships along the way! Click here to read full [...] [...]

Reducing Our Ecological Footprint

admin — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:29:54 +0000

Lifestyles for a Sustainable Future Six-week Series (Evenings) Cost: $60 As we face growing concerns over a warming planet, diminishing natural resources, food security and the end of the fossil fuel age, we must ask ourselves: How does our faith guide us? How can our actions reflect the justice and affimation of life in which we believe? Assemble six to [...] [...]

Discover the True Cost of Coal! Join one of EJC’s Delegation this Year

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:45:20 +0000

DISCOVER THE TRUE COST OF COAL! Join an EJC Delegation to the coalfields of Illinois or West Virginia this Year! Delegation to America’s Heartland! Interested in learning first-hand about the true cost of coal in Illinois? Join an EJC delegation where we take a driving tour of historic and contemporary coal mining sites. We’ll learn about the history of [...] [...]

Inspiring a Shift on Earth …

admin — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:14:01 +0000

[ January 5, 2012; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] For the first time ever, Bioneers is coming to Chicago in 2012! What is Bioneers? Bioneers is inspiring a shift to live on Earth in ways that honor the web of life, each other and future generations. We believe that viable solutions already exist for most of our environmental and social crises. The solutions in nature consistently [...] [...]

2012 … A Year of Positive Change!

admin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:27:15 +0000

Headed into Ecological Overshoot … Again? Did you know that the United States consumes up to 30% of the world’s resources and generates nearly 30% of the world’s wastes? All this with just 4.5% of the world’s population! Did you know that by 2010, the U.S was using global resources at a rate that would require [...] [...]

Canada: The New Saudi Arabia of Oil

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:38:12 +0000

Click to watch video by Sustainable Guidance Canada Now Largest Supplier of Oil to US Most of us don’t know that for the last 7 years, Canada has been the largest supplier of oil to the U.S. But obtaining oil from Canada’s tar sands comes at a high price. Making liquid fuels from oil sands requires energy for steam injection and [...] [...]

Ask the President to Say “The Keystone tar sands pipeline is dead”

Pam Richart — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:07:03 +0000

Gratitude and Happiness

admin — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:38:32 +0000

Happiness Revealed TedxSF 2011 – Louie Schwartzberg Each day we are reminded of the consequences of unfettered economic, social and environmental choices that foster unlimited growth and development at the expense of people and our planet. But each day we also are given the precious gift of life and the opportunity to work for change. Do we [...] [...]