Download or read book Greenopia written by Gay Browne and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greenopia Chicago written by Gay Browne and published by Green Media Group. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,300 listings of local green retailers, service providers, and organizations throughout the Chicago area, this guide is an indispensable reference for eco-friendly shopping in the Windy City. It also offers practical advice and environmental tips that can be easily used at home. Listings range from organic restaurants and grocery stores to dry cleaners, organic pest-control services, and sustainable building suppliers, such as landscapers and interior designers. All listings are vetted by a research team and then rescreened by local expert advisers, providing shoppers with confident, reliable choices. Some listings are further recognized with a "green leaf" award, which gauges green businesses on a scale of one to four leaves, four being the greenest. This guide is a truly complete resource for green living.
Download or read book Greenopia New York City written by and published by Greenopia. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 1,000 listings of green retailers, service providers, and organisations throughout the five boroughs of New York City, this guide is an indispensable reference for eco-friendly shopping. It also offers practical advice and environmental tips that can be easily used at home. Listings range from organic restaurants and grocery stores to dry cleaners, organic pest-control services, and sustainable building suppliers, such as landscapers and interior designers. All listings are vetted by a research team and then rescreened by local expert advisers, providing shoppers with confident, reliable choices. Some listings are further recognised with a "green leaf" award, which gauges green businesses on a scale of one to four leaves, four being the greenest. This guide is a truly complete resource for green living.
Download or read book Paul Green s Chicago written by Paul Michael Green and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... this volume is based ... [on the author's] columns and articles in Illinois issues ... his writings are a source of education, entertainment and erudition about the players, processes and policies of Chicago and Illinois politics ... in this collection of columns and articles published in Illinois issues between 1984 and mid-1988 ... [the author presents] a diverse set of subjects ranging from the ... politics of Chicago's 26th Ward to the ... evolution of the city's black movement that challenged the city's political machine, from the party politics of the state to the role of Illinois in national conventions, and from the philosophy of Hinky Dink Kenna to the bluster of Fast Eddie Vrdolyak and the significance of the late Harold Wshington.-Preface.
Download or read book The Chicago Green Pages written by Lori B. Lippitz and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Greenopia written by Green Media Group, LLC. and published by Green Media Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents over 1,400 listings of green retailers, service providers, and organisations in the San Francisco Bay Area. This consumer guide includes listings from organic restaurants and grocery stores to dry cleaners, organic pest control services, and sustainable building suppliers, landscapers, and interior designers.
Download or read book Beyond the Green Ideal written by Vivian Eliese Hoeflich Brune and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Man traps of the City written by Thomas Edward Green and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Green Chicago written by Chicago Botanic Garden. Department of Urban Horticulture and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book America Goes Green 3 volumes written by Kim Kennedy White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume encyclopedia explores the evolution of green ideology and eco-friendly practices in contemporary American culture, ranging from the creation of regional and national guidelines for green living to the publication of an increasing number of environmental blogs written from the layperson's perspective. Evidence of humanity's detrimental impact on the environment is mounting. As Americans, we are confronted daily with news stories, blogs, and social media commentary about the necessity of practicing green behaviors to offset environmental damage. This essential reference is a fascinating review of the issues surrounding green living, including the impact of this lifestyle on Americans' time and money, the information needed to adhere to green principles in the 21st century, and case studies and examples of successful implementation. America Goes Green: An Encyclopedia of Eco-Friendly Culture in the United States examines this gripping topic through 3 volumes organized by A–Z entries across 11 themes; state-by-state essays grouped by region; and references including primary source documents, bibliography, glossary, and green resources. This timely encyclopedia explores the development of an eco-friendly culture in America, and entries present the debates, viewpoints, and challenges of green living.
Download or read book Cabrini Green written by David T. Whitaker and published by LPC Group. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of stubborn resistance to a high-profile redevelopment plan, a distinct Chicago landmark is slowly disappearing. Sitting in the heart of downtown, the high-rise buildings of the Cabrini-Green housing development have long been a conspicuous element of the city's broad-shouldered landscape. While many have considered it a neighborhood to avoid, others have simply called it home.In the midst of its gradual demise, a compelling new book boldly examines the legacy of this community from the perspective of those who have lived here, raised families here and perhaps even planned to die here.Aided by 23-year-old Jimmy Biggs and 19-year-old Anita Gunartt, both of whom were born and raised in Cabrini-Green, Chicago writer and author David Whitaker has compiled vivid memories from residents that include grandmothers and gang members, fathers and college students. Complemented by the adept work of Chicago-based photographer Blair Jensen, the result is at once an authentic tale, an enlightening portrait and a streetwise study of the country's most recognized housing development.Acting as expert guides and rotating narrators, residents lead readers on a virtual tour through their community's troubled past and its uncertain future. In reflecting on their many experiences, they tell only one story ....the story of Cabrini-Green from the inside out.
Download or read book Metropolitan Home written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicago Gardens written by Cathy Jean Maloney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once maligned as a swampy outpost, the fledgling city of Chicago brazenly adopted the motto Urbs in Horto or City in a Garden, in 1837. Chicago Gardens shows how this upstart town earned its sobriquet over the next century, from the first vegetable plots at Fort Dearborn to innovative garden designs at the 1933 World’s Fair. Cathy Jean Maloney has spent decades researching the city’s horticultural heritage, and here she reveals the unusual history of Chicago’s first gardens. Challenged by the region’s clay soil, harsh winters, and fierce winds, Chicago’s pioneering horticulturalists, Maloney demonstrates, found imaginative uses for hardy prairie plants. This same creative spirit thrived in the city’s local fruit and vegetable markets, encouraging the growth of what would become the nation’s produce hub. The vast plains that surrounded Chicago, meanwhile, inspired early landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, and O.C. Simonds, to new heights of grandeur. Maloney does not forget the backyard gardeners: immigrants who cultivated treasured seeds and pioneers who planted native wildflowers. Maloney’s vibrant depictions of Chicagoans like “Bouquet Mary,” a flower peddler who built a greenhouse empire, add charming anecdotal evidence to her argument–that Chicago’s garden history rivals that of New York or London and ensures its status as a world-class capital of horticultural innovation. With exquisite archival photographs, prints, and postcards, as well as field guide descriptions of living legacy gardens for today’s visitors, Chicago Gardens will delight green-thumbs from all parts of the world.
Download or read book Urban Green written by Robert Colin Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits as well as to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking time and money, they most often sought out nature within the city itself--at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a variety of outdoor recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.
Download or read book Cities and Green Growth The Case of the Chicago Tri State Metropolitan Area written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great American City written by Robert J. Sampson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his magisterial Great American City, Robert J. Sampson puts social scientific data behind an argument that we all feel and experience everyday: the neighborhood you live in has a big effect on your life and the city you live in. Not only does your neighborhood determine where your nearest hospital is, what kind of schools your children can attend, or how many police officers you might encounter (and how they respond to you), it affects how you feel, how you think about the world and your place in it. Like many sociologists before him, Sampson looks to Chicago to make his insightful interventions, based on extensive data collected across the city's diverse neighborhoods. This edition includes a new afterword by Sampson reflecting on changes in Chicago and the country that have occurred since the book was initially published. He notes the increase in gun violence, both among civilians and police killings of civilians, as well as steady or growing rates of segregation despite an increase in diversity. With these changes have come new research, much of it a continuation or elaboration of the work in Great American City. He updates readers on the status of the research initiative that serves as the basis of Great American City, the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), and summarizes how scholars have taken up his work. Many of these scholars have new tools at their disposal with the rise of big data; Sampson remarks on these changes in the field"--
Download or read book Green Fields written by Mills & Son and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: