Tag: Chicago - Page 3
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Green Roof Covers Wind- and Solar-Powered Produce Warehouse
When I wrote about a solar-powered refrigeration warehouse in Baltimore, I noted that the warehouse's visibility made for a great billboard for the potential of clean energy. Now another major distributor is making big waves for
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Giant Bass-O-Matic Power Plants Killing Millions Of Great Lakes Fish
Power plants on rivers and lakes have usually been built with "once-through" cooling, where water is sucked in and dumped back into the lakes as much as 30 degrees hotter.
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Greenpeace Activists Scale 450-ft Smokestack on 100 Year-Old Chicago Coal Plant [UPDATES]
Greenpeace activists climbed one of the nation's oldest and dirtiest coal-fired power plants, the Fisk Generating Station, in the heart of Chicago, IL. As a part of the renowned green group's Quit Coal campaign, the action
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While Washington Denies Climate Change, Chicago Moves to Adapt
It's a perverse irony, really. While those holding the highest offices in the nation climb over one another to convince Americans they don't believe in climate change, public officials actually in charge of
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Are LEED Certified Buildings Bird Killing Machines? In A Word, No.
UPDATE: David Roth of GBNYC did a great job on this story and I have stolen his title.
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Rahm Emanuel's Bike Plan for Chicago Seems Promising
Photos: Flickr, CC, and Wikipedia, Public domain. Yes We Can... Do Better for Cyclists Now that Rahm Emanuel is back on the ticket in Chicago, let's look at what the potential next Mayor has revealed so far about his plan for cycling in the windy city.
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When It Comes To Green Building, Where You Are Is As Important As What You Build
A few years back, Alex Wilson of BuildingGreen started using the term "Transportation Energy Efficiency",.He defined it as "the amount of energy associated with getting
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Chicago Bus Tracker: Transit goes 21st Century With User-Friendly Online GPS Tracking (Video)
Making Transit More Convenient = Good Chicago's Bus Tracker offers more evidence in favor of transit agencies releasing their data in open and usable formats. It not only allows transit users to track buses online and on their phones, knowing exactly
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An Ambitious Project Looks to Fix Urban America through Crowd Sourcing
Over the last few weeks, Chicagoans have been asked a simple question: "What would encourage you to walk, bike and take CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) more often?" Ads posing the question in
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Exclusive Look Inside Michelle Kaufmann's 2010 Smart Home in Chicago (Slideshow)
TreeHugger first covered architect Michelle Kaufmann's Smart Home at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in 2008 with a guest post by Brian Jones.
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Exclusive Look Inside Michelle Kaufmann's 2010 Smart Home in Chicago
TreeHugger first covered architect Michelle Kaufmann's Smart Home at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in 2008 with a guest post by Brian Jones. It is a different creature today; the Museum redoes the interior every year. Being in Chicago fo
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"Kitchen Composition" Built From Scraps
You've got to love the attitude of John Preus and Charlie Roderick of Dilettante Studios in Chicago. They work almost exclusively with found, inherited, re-purposed and salvaged materials, mixing, matching and mashing
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Is A Green Parking Garage Like A Kosher Ham?
Blair Kamin, architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, wonders if a green parking garage is really an oxymoron, like "kosher ham, a peacekeeping missile, or the World Series-winning Cubs." He looks at the HOK designed
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Chicago Using GPS-Collared Coyotes to Control Rodents?
Most of the time when a city has a rodent problem, they call in human exterminators. But Chicago seems to be testing out something slightly more... natural. After spotting a coyote running down State Street in Chicago,
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The Hottest Ideas Coming out of Greenbuild 2010
One has to wonder about the carbon footprint of 20,000 architects, engineers and builders flying off to a convention, but there is a lot to see and learn. This year the sustainable building event Greenbuild International Conference and Expo is back in Chi
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Bjarke Ingels of BIG Wins European Prize For Architecture
Fast Company Fast Company nailed Bjarke Ingels with a graphic novelette earlier this year, capturing the intensity and fun that the 38 year old wonder is having. He's just won the European Prize for Architecture,which interestingly, is an American prize
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U.S. Asian Carp Czar Says Poison, Genetic Engineering Among Solutions
The Obama administration loves its czars almost as much as the media loves using the title. So here goes: The U.S. Asian Carp Czar, also known as John Goss, says he has a multi-pronged strategy to help keep Asian carp from
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10 Great New Green Restaurants in the U.S.
The restaurant business can be an extremely wasteful one -- and those times when you don't have time to cook or just feel like someone else's cooking, can have a serious impact on your footprint. Luckily the foodies have options,
