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With two restaurants located in the city, Uncommon Ground’s unique focus on fresh and organic goes from the food served to hungry customers to the rooftop farm that makes it an eco-friendly trailblazer. Uncommon Ground’s eatery at 1401 W. Devon is the first restaurant in the country to have a certified organic rooftop farm....
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Yasmin Mohamed, a Somali refugee living in Chicago, endured one of the globe’s greatest humanitarian crises, but understanding her future means journeying to ZIP code 60625. Four mornings a week Yasmin winds her way down Whipple Ave. to the Albany Park Community Center. The second floor classroom is a global village of 26 students...
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Brittany Frandsen, a 20-year-old film student at Columbia College Chicago, is on her way to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, but not because of a film. It was her environmentally friendly South Loop apartment that got her there. Frandsen was the winner of Brita’s Filter For Good green room contest, a...
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Naida Okanovic remembers as a child reading a textbook her mother copiously hand duplicated word for word by candlelight in the refuge of a basement in Bosnia. The walls surrounding her shook as Serbian soldiers overhead ignited grenades. Okanovic, now 21, is a University of Illinois at Chicago student studying psychology. Her experiences in...
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The massive brick building at 931 S. Homan Ave. once housed a power plant to provide electricity and heat for the adjacent Sears & Roebuck headquarters. Now the building powers the minds of young people in Chicago. In September, Henry Ford Power House Charter High School opened its doors. Power House High is located...
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About 100 activists gathered at Federal Plaza on Monday to protest carbon trading and promote alternative energy. Drums pounded and trumpets blared, as signs emblazoned with messages such as “No Coal” and “My Air Is Not For Sale” were passed among protesters who gathered during a chilly morning at Jackson and Adams streets. Mobilization...
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Traveling to 100 schools in 70 countries over the past decade helped Sarah Elizabeth Ippel craft the vision of holistic and stimulating education that is now the basis of the Academy for Global Citizenship charter school she founded in the Archer Heights neighborhood. The academy is in its second school year this fall, with...
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Literally nothing was thrown away at the GreenTown Conference, held Oct. 15 at Columbia College Chicago, because all its waste was recycled or composted. But garbage was, in fact, on a lot of people’s minds there. Because of one lecture at GreenTown, you may see changes to your neighborhood’s recycling program, or even the...
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Hear Robert Naiman, national coordinator of Just Foreign Policy, in a dialogue with Kaveh Ehsani, editorial committee member of Middle East Report and professor of international studies at DePaul University, on the critical issues at stake in Iran today. Friday October 16 at 7 p.m. School of the Art Institute of Chicago Columbus Auditorium 280 S. Columbus Dr....
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Have you heard of Bhopal, India? It is the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradeshand that is known as the Lake City because its landscape is dotted with a number of natural lakes. Drinking from the lakes might not be such a good idea. Twenty-five...
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