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The latest dirt on the soil and rubble ordinance The soil and rubble reuse ordinance has been attacked by an unusual coalition of environmentalists and waste haulers.
By Mick Dumke
May 6th, 2009
Have a Green Day Twenty-four ways you can help the planet, from how you wake yourself up in the morning to how you get drunk at night.
By Mick Dumke
April 17, 2008
The Plastic Plague Even China has found ways to deal with the glut of plastic shopping bags. When will Chicago get it together? Plus: What you need to know about plastic bags now
By Mick Dumke
March 6, 2008
Critical Mass Under mounting pressure from citizens, can Chicago come up with a recycling plan that actually works?
By Mick Dumke
October 25, 2007
Greenish Is Daley the environmentalist of the decade? We'll see.
By Mick Dumke
September 22, 2006
The Awful Truth About Recycling in Chicago If you think the Blue Bag program stinks, you should see what happens to the other 75 percent of the city’s garbage.
By Mick Dumke
July 21, 2006
Horto in Urbs The first garden show ever for people with no room to garden.
By Harold Henderson
May 12, 2006
They Need It. We Waste It. The powers that control the Great Lakes are fortifying the ramparts for the day the west runs out of water. The Chicago River is the chink in our armor.
By Michael Miner
January 13, 2006
Running on Water Debra Shore thinks the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District could be key to the future of the region and the environment. That's why she's raising real money to win an office most candidates barely campaign for.
By Christopher Hayes
October 28, 2005
Meet the Beetles In northwest Indiana, a plan to control the invasive weed purple loosestrife.
By Harold Henderson
June 3, 2005
Don't Call It a Cleanup The Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge five million cubic yards of toxic mud out of the Indiana Harbor Canal. But five million cubic yards of toxic mud on land becomes five million yards of toxic dirt.
By Harold Henderson
January 21, 2005
The Extinction Express While Madagascar teeters on the edge of an ecological catastrophe, Field Museum biologist Steve Goodman does what he can to save the remains.
By Harold Henderson
February 13, 2004
Something in the Air Pollution from two power plants on the near south side causes dozens of premature deaths and thousands of asthma attacks a year, say Harvard researchers. So why has a city ordinance that would require a cleanup been mired in committee for more than a year?
By Kari Lydersen
March 28, 2003
What Have We Done? A look at our impact on nature in Illinois--both good and bad--chronicles the unavoidable clash between those who seek to save the wilderness and those who seek to subdue it.
By Harold Henderson
October 25, 2002
How to Buy a Cleaner Planet It's so crazy, it just might work: letting industry pay for the right to pollute.
By Harold Henderson
May 7, 1999
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The city's taking a few more steps toward growing a recycling culture Recycling advocates say there's a chance city officials will take at least a few more baby steps toward confronting the problem in the next few weeks.
By Mick Dumke
June 16th, 2009
A look at how construction debris is recycled ...when there's stuff to recycle.
By Mick Dumke
March 25th, 2009
The waste of waste In urban areas like Chicago composting essentially has to be done at your home.
By Mick Dumke
February 19th, 2009
RIP, Blue Bag The Daley administration's Blue Bag recycling program was officially declared dead Friday morning. It was 17.
By Mick Dumke
May 2nd, 2008
Close Deep Tunnel The architects at Bridgeport's UrbanLab have a better plan.
By Harold Henderson
May 11, 2007
Follow That Draft You turn off the lights when you leave the room, you keep the thermostat at 65, and you just spent a few grand on storm windows. But your home may still be hemorrhaging energy. These guys can help.
By Harold Henderson
February 3, 2006
The Future in a Box? A UN project with outposts in Chicago says this plastic container just might solve some of the world's biggest problems. At the very least it'll grow you some killer tomatoes.
By Martha Bayne
January 20, 2006
She Just Wants to Wide The inaugural voyage of Illinois' first registered Twike.
By Tori Marlan
April 29, 2005
How Much Green Does It Take to Go Green? This obsessive environmentalist rehab has cost $1.5 million so far, but it's powered by thinkng that can adapt to almost any budget.
By Harold Henderson
March 18, 2005
Elements of Style Getting a charge out of a solar bag.
By Tori Marlan
July 25, 2003
How Green Can You Get? From the succulents growing on the roof to the vegetable oil in the elevator's hydraulic system, the city's new Center for Green Technology is doing everything it can to be nice to Mother Nature--within reason.
By Harold Henderson
May 3, 2002
Circuit Breaker John Berton Cuts the Cord to Com Ed
By Tori Marlan
November 19, 1999
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