Search
Than Naing Oo next to his garden plot in 2018 in Chicago. (Photo courtesy of Paul Bick)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Northwestern University
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Global Garden Refugee Training Farm in Chicago makes space for refugee farmers to grow traditional fruits and vegetables, while also integrating local cultivars. One farmer shares what he grows in his farm plot.
Tags: refugee agriculture, urban farming, Chicago farm, food, agriculture, Global Garden, produce
Jen Jenkins surveys the terrain of Sundrop Prairie (Sarah Anderson/MEDILL).
Medill News Service, Northwestern University
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Colleen O’Brien and Jen Jenkins are exploring whether a cluster of five grassland regions that form a rare natural oasis just south of Chicago could be dedicated as a space for stormwater collection to help mitigate flooding in the region.
Tags: Biodiversity, natural disasters, Water, Infrastructure, data
A discarded mask was one of the many types of litter resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. (Andy Mabbett/Creative Commons 4.0)
Northwestern University
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
From neighborhood cleanup to city-wide effort, Cleanup Club Chicago organizes volunteers in an effort to address plastic litter pollution.
Tags: Cleanup Club Chicago, Chicago River Day, COVID, Single-Use Foodware Ordinance, break free from plastic pollution act 2020, Chicago Parks District, public health
Planet Forward
Monday, December 27, 2010
By Brandt Siegel (presenter) Brian Griffith, Sarah Allison, and Noemi Glickman
Tags: New York City, boston, chicago, dallas
Northwestern University
Monday, May 08, 2017
Young people are exploring food systems through farming. We compared the group we met while in Panama with an urban farm on the South Side of Chicago.
Tags: panama, kalu yala, The Plant, Plant Chicago
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Here's a simple idea to create more parks: retrofit a parking lot. Check out this latest animation from the American Society of Landscape Architects sustainable landscapes series that shows how small parks can revitalize cities.
Tags: transportation, new york, Infrastructure, Los Angeles, Urban, design, American Society of Landscape Architects, ASLA, cities, railroads
A historical photograph of the West Calumet Housing Complex provided by the East Chicago Public Library for the Northwest Indiana Times.
Northwestern University
Monday, January 08, 2018
High lead and arsenic contamination has been plaguing East Chicago, Indiana, residential areas since at least the 1980s. Read about residents who have been affected by this crisis and their fight for recovery.
Tags: epa, superfund, East Chicago, lead, clean water, contaminated water
Friday, January 06, 2012
Dr. Waheed Uddin is a professor at the University of Mississippi and an expert in civil engineering.
Tags: University of Mississippi, Personal Rapid Transit, PRT, studetns
Petcoke piles are stored at a Koch Bros. storage site on the Calumet River in Chicago, Illinois, in 2014. (Terry Evans)
Planet Forward Correspondent | Loyola University Chicago
Monday, January 07, 2019
Communities outside of Chicago stifled by BP's largest oil refinery are taking defiant steps to end its expansion of production—and dangerous emissions.
Tags: South Deering, Pilsen, chicago, Social Justice, Petcoke, Manganese, environmental justice, urban resilience, pfcorrespondent, storyfest2019
(Photo courtesy Nebia)
The George Washington University, Spring 2016 Editorial Intern
Tuesday, April 05, 2016
“You’ve taken thousands of showers, but never one like this.”