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Should We Fear the Year of the Acorn?
Acorns are piling up around the U.S., threatening to cover some cities in nuts. Not really, but there have been an "exceptionally large number of acorns" dropped by oak trees around the country this year, Chicago-area experts say. This
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Thoughts on Lollapalooza: Concerts Getting Cleaner?
So I spent the weekend at Lollapalooza, along with another 200,000 or so people, rocking out to headliners like Green Day, The Strokes and Lady Gaga. And I noticed something. For the most part, people were doing the right thing:
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In With The Old: Fixing What We've Got Comes Before Re-imagining What Might Be
Over 40% of our energy consumption goes into powering our buildings, and we all know that we have to cut that Godzilla-sized footprint. But it seems that most of our efforts go to looking at new stuff rather than fixing the
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Pride of Paper: Not Just Another Collection of Paper Jewelry
I used to think I couldn't bare to see another collection of paper jewelry, but, as usual, everything can be refreshing when it's original and well done. These pieces were designed by American artist Kiff Slemmons along with the
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Chicago, Citing Benefits Of 'Floaters' - Tells Obama Administration To Take A Dive
Chicago is claiming that USEPA should not force the City to separate sewers and disinfect combined storm water and sewerage discharges that otherwise will go
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In Chicago, A Fashion Show Satisfies Our Love for Recycled Textiles (and Our Sweet Tooth, Too) [Photos]
We're no strangers to green fashion in Chicago; Designers Vaute Couture, Frei Designs, and Mountains
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First Natural-Dye Production House in America Opens in Chicago (Video)
The fact that most textiles today contain toxic substances is not holding Jane Palmer back from creating naturally-dyed textiles. The co-creator of Noon Solar handbags and founder of the first and only natural-dye
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Blowing up the Kitchen: Homaro Cantu, Star of Future Food on Planet Green
Image: Planet Green To Homaro Cantu-the mad-scientist chef behind Chicago's Moto Restaurant-a complete meal is like an opera. But Cantu's opera involves exploding s'more bombs, a food replicator, and miracle berries. Part contemporary restaurant, part
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Obama Administration Drops A Couple Of Billion On The Great Lakes
When I was living in Chicago as a youngster, I never went swimming in Lake Michigan. There were always rumors about toxic chemical levels in the lake and killer carp that had infested the the biggest name in the Great Lakes. I might change my mind next
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'Steelroots' Grow Above the Ground, Up to 40 Feet High, in Illinois
See the tree. The roots are underneath. They anchor the plant to the ground, and take in water and minerals. Unless they're "Steelroots," which live above the ground, to be appreciated as art and explored with your hands
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What is the Cause of "Stinky Situation" With Waterless Urinals?
Four years ago, Local 690 of the Philadelphia Plumbers Union caused outrage in the green world by refusing to install waterless urinals in the Comcast center
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Mobile Garden Rail Car To Be Tacked on To Chicago Transit System
The Mobile Garden concept dreamed up by artist Joe Baldwin just got the thumbs up from the Chicago Transit Authority. The plan is to add some green space to the transit system by transforming a rail car into a mobile garden
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Interview with Lindsay Chadderton, the Scientist Who Discovered the Asian Carp DNA Beyond the Barrier
You may not have heard of Lindsay Chadderton, but you've probably heard of one of his recent discoveries: Asian carp DNA found beyond an electric barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, meant to keep the voracious, invasive fish out of the
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Was it Worth It? One Asian Carp Found After Six Miles of River Poisoned in Illinois
An emergency operation to stop invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes used more than 2,000 gallons of rotenone to poison six miles of a canal
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Asian Carp Fever Grips Great Lakes, Monster Invasive Fish May Already Be Here
The Asian carp, a monstrous, invasive fish, has been knocking at the door of the Great Lakes for decades. Now bad news is spreading that the fish may have breached an electric barrier on the Chicago Sanitary and
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Future Food, a Show About Changing the Way We Think About Food, Coming to Planet Green
What do you get when you combine downloadable design (and the internet) and food, and splash in some molecular gastronomy? Just ask Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche: Two renowned chefs, successful restaurateurs, patent-owning mad
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Another One Bites The Dust: Walter Gropius Buildings Being Torn Down in Chicago
It is hard to get people excited about saving buildings from the 50s and 60s. But then it used to be hard to get people excited about saving Frank Lloyd Wright
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Chicago's Bloomingdale Rail Could Become Giant, Hydrogen-Producing Greenhouse
Image: Bustler When I was in college, a graffiti-writing friend took me to one of his favorite secret spots, a neglected section of elevated train track in Manhattan's meat packing district. We had to politely interrupt some transvestite prostitutes in
