February 19, 2007 · 1 Comment
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: 
Categories: April 07 · Calendar Event Details · past
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
Categories: March 07
February 5, 2007 · 1 Comment
Workshop #2 Forming Co-ops and other ways communities can purchase housing together to create affordable and green housing.
March 29th Thursday. 7pm Come hear Mark Fick, of the Chicago Community Loan Fund speak about forming housing cooperatives and other ways we can help keep the neighborhood and school community together. Water’s School is at the corner of Campbell and Sunnyside. We will meet in the school fieldhouse, which is the colorfully painted building in the garden. See you then!
Vengan aprender como las Familias pueden comprear una casa. A las pm en la escuela water, la casa del jardin de en Sunnyside and Campbell.
Categories: March 07
March 24th. E-Waste Collection in the neighborhood. Waters School Playground
4540 N. Campbell
Saturday, March 24th
10:00am – 1:00pm
Please bring in any old computers, printers, monitors or cell phones for safe and environmentally friendly disposal.
(The memory of all hard drives will be cleared for your security.)
We are also still collecting old cell phones, print cartridges and used batteries. You may drop these off in the specially marked boxes in the school office.
Categories: March 07 · past
March 23 & 24, 2007
Chicago Cultural Center
The FamilyFarmed.org EXPO is Chicago’s premier local and organic food event. The two-day event brings Midwest family-farmers to town to meet with local food buyers and Chicagoland consumers. The EXPO features over 100 exhibits including growers, food processors and organizations dealing with food, farming, organics, artisanal food, gardening, public health, food policy, urban agriculture, GMO issues, fair trade, sustainability and more. Learn More
**Beyond Today has been given a few tickets. Email us if you are interested. First come first serve.
Categories: March 07 · past
