April 21-22 Earth Day Weekend — Bike to Greenfest, Water’s Garden Workday

Saturday – Bike As A Group to Greenfest (includes small neighborhood tour and light breakfast)

Who:  Anyone is welcome

When:  Saturday, April 21, 2007, 8:30 AM

Where:  Water’s Garden (4540 N Campbell Ave, Corner of Sunnyside and Campbell)

Why:   Cost is $8, which will go to Beyond Today but get you into Greenfest FREE.    Before heading downtown to McCormick Place, we’ll start the day off with a light breakfast (also FREE) and then take a small tour of the neighborhood where we’ll show you the progress community members have made to improve the neighborhood environment. 

 

Sunday – Water’s Garden Earth Day Workday

When:  Sunday,  April 22, 2007, 9 AM – 1 PM

Where:  Water’s Garden, (4540 N Campbell, Corner of Sunnyside and Campbell)

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May 1 Unity March

Flyer

UNITY MARCH
We Demand: Stop Raids and Deportations, Family Unity &
Legalization for All! No, to the Bush Proposal!
For More Information Please Call
Zocalo Urbano / Pueblo Sin Fronteras / La Familia Latina Unida
773-523-8261
SomosUnPueblo.com y ElZocaloUrbano.net
Tuesday,
Mayo 1st
Rally at Daley Center
50 W. Washington St.
(corner of Dearborn & Washington)
3pm
Schedule of the March
12:30pm:
South: Benito Juarez HS
(2140 S. Ashland)
North: Adalberto UMC
(2716 W. Division)
1:30pm:
March from Union Park
To Rally at Daley Center
3PM en la (50 W. Washington)
Our Demands Not One Family
Separated!
Not One Child Left
Behind!
Stop the War and
Bring The Troops
Home Now!
El Zocalo Urbano &…….Invites you
CAAAELII, Batey Urbano, Familia Latina Unida
Pueblo Sin Fronteras, Centro Cultural Puertorriqueño, La Nación de Islam, Iglesia
Unida Metodista Adalberto, LCLAA, Mexico Solidarity Network, NNNN,
SigmaAmerica(WI), C.I.W. Trabajadores de Immokalee, DSBDA y muchos mas…
Elvira y Saul Arellano
Elvira will mark 25th day on Hunger
Strike and 9mo. in Sanctuary

Flyer

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MARCHA DE UNIDAD
Demandamos: ¡Alto a las Redadas y Deportaciones, Reunificación
Familiar y Legalización para Todos! ¡No a la propuesta de Bush!
Para mas Información por favor de llamar a
Zocalo Urbano / Pueblo Sin Fronteras / La Familia Latina Unida
773-523-8261
SomosUnPueblo.com y ElZocaloUrbano.net
Martes,
1ro de Mayo
Mitin en Daley Center
50 W. Washington St.
(esquina de Dearborn y Washington)
3pm
Horario de la Marcha
12:30pm:
Sur: Benito Juarez HS
(2140 S. Ashland)
Norte: Iglesia Adalberto
(2716 W. Division)
1:30pm:
Marcha de Parque Union
Para el Mitin en el Daley Center
3PM en la (50 W. Washington)
Nuestras Demandas ¡Ni Una Familia
Dividida!
¡Ni Un Niño Dejado
Atraz!
¡Alto a la Guerra!
¡Traigan las Tropas
A Casa!
Los Invita El Zocalo Urbano y…….
CAAAELII, Batey Urbano, Familia Latina Unida
Pueblo Sin Fronteras, Centro Cultural Puertorriqueño, La Nación de Islam, Iglesia
Unida Metodista Adalberto, LCLAA, Mexico Solidarity Network, NNNN,
SigmaAmerica(WI), C.I.W. Trabajadores de Immokalee, DSBDA y muchos mas…
Elvira y Saul Arellano
Elvira Cumplirá 25 días en Huelga
de Hambre y 9 meses en Santuario

Flyer

April 11th Organic Vegetable Gardening workshop: Early Spring Gardening

April 11th 7PM Beyond Today Workshop: Organic Gardening Series. Early Spring Gardening. Come learn from master gardener Nancy Benjamin and meet others who will be organically gardening this year. Learn how to care for your garden in April and get a jump on the season! Email Nancy to RSVP. At Water’s Fieldhouse.

April 14th Day in Sauganash

invitation from Pete Leki:

Our work in Riverbank Neighbors and Waters Garden was
inspired by the North Branch Restoration Project. For 30
years the NBRP pioneered the hands-on, eyes-and-ears
open restoration of remnant plant communities along
the Chicago River. It was startling for me to see,
some fifteen years ago, plants species by the score
that I had never seen before, living right here in my
home town. Turns out they have been here for 10,000
years, knitting a tapestry of diversity, complexity
and interdependance that took the breath away from the
European settlers when they first saw it, and was
revered by the native populations that sustained them
for those thousands of years. Ancient oak woods,
majestic savannas, lush wetlands, and prairies to the
horizon, all ablaze in flowers, saturated with the
sweet smells and symphonic calls of insects and
anilmals.
Sadly, most, more than 95% percent, of these areas
have been destroyed by development. The last precious
remnants are close by and need great care and
attention.
We will be working at Sauganash Prairie Grove from
9-12 on Saturday, removing invasive species and
checking out the first wildflowers of the year. Meet
at Bryn Mawr and Kilbourn and we’ll have instructions
and an invocation after 10 long years of forced
idleness. (see North Branch Restoration project for
map) We’re coming…. hang on Carex squarosa,
Dutchmen’s Breeches, Trillium, Rattlesnake master,
hold on. Call Pete for info or ride share, 463-8968.

June 1-3 National Pesticide Forum in Chicago

June 1-3 (Friday-Sunday) The 25th National Pesticide Forum, Changing Course in a Changing Climate: Solutions for health and the environment, will be held June 1-3 at Loyola University (Water Tower campus), Chicago, IL. See details at http://www.beyondpesticides.org/forum Beyond Today co-sponsors the event. Scholarships available for Beyond Today community members. Alternative housing is available on a sliding scale as a fundraiser for our organic/no spray project. Local community members will house conference attendees. Let them know when you register if you’d like to stay in the Beyond Today neighborhood.

April 14th Global Warming Event in Horner Park: Step it up!

Lincoln Square/North Center: Horner Park Event

Chicago, IL

Saturday April 14, 2007 01:00PM

Event Description:
(*Note new location and time) Demand that Congress Step it Up and act quickly on Global Warming. Join us at Horner Park, 1:00pm, under the power-wasting, energy-worshipping, new, 60 foot god-awful light towers that have just been installed for night baseball (just when we were learning to switch to energy saving light bulbs!), for a “Step it Up” event to Stop Global Warming. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, a guitar and a song or poem to share, on the subject of living more sanely and modestly and carefully on this Earth. We will be handing out flyers to request that the banks of Hi-powered lights be replaced by wind turbines that could power the Horner Park Fieldhouse and bathrooms and possibly earn money for the park instead of bleeding it away.

See you there!

Location:
Horner Park under the new lights near California and Berteau (midway between Irving Park and Montrose)

Directions:
The Irving Park bus will take you there. Western Ave is also walking distance.

RSVP on the Step it up website. All are welcome.

Here’s the old kind of wind turbine:

and here’s the new kind that is designed for urban landscapes such as Horner Park:

March 31st Bats!

Environmental Neighborhood Bats!

Saturday, March 31st at Water’s Fieldhouse

Bats and Hummus!
Come for an informal talk and dinner Saturday, March 31st with international Bat authority Rob Meis. Rob is known for his appearances on the Today Show and Late Night with Conan O’Brien, but he is also a founder of The Organization for Bat Conservation and is the co-author of over 12 books including the first field guide to bats, Stokes Beginners Guide to Bat Identification. This will be an informal gathering. We will meet at the Waters School Field House at 6:30 pm. Laurene von Klan will provide some hummus and pita etc but we ask you to bring drinks and dessert. We will pass the hat for contributions to The Organization for Bat Conservation and those contributions will be matched by a gift to Beyond Today.
If you really want to see more of Rob and his live bats (including a malayan bat with a six foot wing span) there will be lots of bat programming at the Nature Museum on Saturday and Sunday from about 12-2 pm.
Hope to see you Saturday. RSVP