Environment
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Inside the Reader Food Chain Food & Drink Environment Eco Behind Our Scenes In this week's Reader: veggie mania
Posted by Kate Schmidt on 11.17.11 at 08:00 AM
- Lilli Carre
Kevin Warwick has put together a guide to vegetarian and vegan Chicago, drawing on the expertise of dieticians, chefs, vegetarians and vegans, farmers, and entepreneurs in Q & A's on health, restaurants and cooking, and local resources for vegetarian living. We take peeks into the refrigerators of locals including Dan Staackmann, founder of the seitan company Upton's Naturals—the subject of a brief profile—and Hugh Amano, chef and founder of the blog Food on the Dole, who'll serve as host of a vegetarian salon coming up on December 1. There's also a profile of Mickey Hornick, founder of the Chicago Diner ("Meat free since '83"), which is offering its 29th vegan Thanksgiving this year. As an added bonus, vegan Paul McGee, head bartender at the Whistler, contributes an anti-Turkey Day recipe for a booze-heavy Cardinal Punch.
We've got you covered on vegetarian dining, including locals' five favorite vegetarian dishes at nonvegetarian restaurants. In the restaurant listings are spots for deprivation-free vegetarian meals; links are after the jump.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Politics Environment Clout City News Eco Chicago's leaky water system
Posted by Mick Dumke on 11.11.11 at 05:50 PM
Spatz assured Chicago’s suburban customers that the money would go toward shoring up the system that five million people in the region rely on for water. “These rate increases are needed to keep up with the increasing costs of operations and maintenance due to increases in labor, materials, energy and fuel costs, rising costs of construction to maintain and replace aging infrastructure, increasing costs of capital projects and costs associated with regulatory compliance.”
Monday, October 3, 2011
Bicycling Transit Environment Cycling Eco Open Streets on State Street
Posted by Julia Thiel on 10.03.11 at 02:24 PM
Friday, September 23, 2011
Science Flotsam and Jetsam Environment Eco Learn everything you wanted to know about the water you drink
Posted by Asher Klein on 09.23.11 at 03:42 PM
- Thomas Barrat / Shutterstock.com
- Chicago's water being put to good use.
Chicago uses one billion gallons of water a day, the vast majority of which is processed at the James W. Jardine Water Purification Plant, the largest treatment plant in the world. (You'd recognize it from its trademark "cribs," those little houses floating out in the lake you can see from the beach.) But there's much more to it than that, including hundred-year-old tunnels buried 16 stories below the lake big enough to drive a Model T through. If you've got two minutes, read this post about Chicago's water-processing system, and if you've got ten, watch the video embedded in it. Water you waiting for??
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Bicycling Transit Environment Eco Cycling Chicago to get a large-scale bike-sharing program
Posted by Julia Thiel on 09.21.11 at 04:45 PM
Monday, September 19, 2011
Science Food & Drink Environment Eco The Plant gets funding to move forward
Posted by Julia Thiel on 09.19.11 at 01:14 PM
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Bicycling Transit Environment Eco Cycling Park(ing) Day photos
Posted by Julia Thiel on 09.18.11 at 12:53 PM
- Urban Habitat Chicago
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Bicycling Transit Environment Eco Cycling Park(ing) Day is tomorrow
Posted by Julia Thiel on 09.15.11 at 04:19 PM
- Julia Thiel
- Park(ing) Day 2010
Friday, August 19, 2011
Politics Environment Clout City Eco Lake Michigan politely returns our trash
Posted by Mick Dumke on 08.19.11 at 10:35 AM
I recently wrote about how much I love swimming in the lake, and how I sometimes see litter on the lake bottom when I'm offshore a couple hundred yards.
That hasn't been an issue this week. Winds, currents, and waves stirred up the water enough that it's been so cloudy I could barely see my hands in front me as I swam.
Instead, the weather conditions have pushed some of our waste right back onto shore. It tends to accumulate next to breakers and piers, forming heaps of seaweed, cans, bottles, plastic bags, and other junk. Here's a pic of some of the two-foot-high pile that amassed next to the Pratt pier near where I live (and swim):
Friday, August 12, 2011
Politics Environment Clout City News Eco Why you should care about the way garbage is picked up
Posted by Mick Dumke on 08.12.11 at 01:40 PM
The Sun-Times is reporting that the Emanuel administration is pressing forward with plans to change the way city crews pick up garbage, from a ward-based system to a grid-based system. Unless you’re the type who enjoys reading up on sanitation policy—hey, there are a few of us—this may not seem terribly interesting. But it’s a big deal for financial, environmental, and political reasons.
