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Category Archives: social justice
BP Agrees to Invest $400 Million Reducing Pollution from Whiting Refinery
BP announced yesterday the company will spend more than $400 million to significantly reduce noxious air pollution from its massive refinery in northwest Indiana. The improvements should help relieve problems with lung-damaging soot and other air pollution throughout the Chicago … Continue reading
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Task Force Convenes to Assess Reuse of the Fisk and Crawford Power Plant Sites
As we reported earlier this year, the Fisk and Crawford coal-fired power plants, long blamed for cardiovascular and respiratory disease in Pilsen and Little Village, will be closing by the end of 2014 per terms of an agreement with the … Continue reading
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From Brownfield to Solar Farm in East St. Louis
Coal has long powered this region, with benefits including cheap energy and costs including soot, local air pollution, contributions to global climate change and cardiovascular and respiratory disease. In Chicago, communities near the Fisk and Crawford coal-fired power plants (which … Continue reading
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SUST 350 Service & Sustainability Course Canoes Bubbly Creek
This semester, Professor Mike Bryson is teaching a SUST 350 Service & Sustainability seminar focusing on urban agriculture in Chicago. In late April, he organized a canoe trip for the course, in conjunction with the Chicago Lights Urban Farm and … Continue reading
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“Living Downstream” Documentary Screening at Congress Lounge Tonight in Anticipation of Earth Day
In anticipation of Earth Day, Roosevelt University will host a screening tonight (Friday, April 20th) of the acclaimed environmental documentary feature film, Living Downstream, which features the life and work of writer, ecologist, and environmental activist Sandra Steingraber. As explained … Continue reading
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The Role of Grassroots Activists in the Closure of the Fisk and Crawford Power Plants
The Fisk and Crawford coal-fired power plants, long blamed for cardiovascular and respiratory disease in Pilsen and Little Village, will close by the end of 2014 per terms of an agreement with the City of Chicago and Midwest Generation. This … Continue reading
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SUST 350 Service & Sustainability Work at the Chicago Lights Urban Farm
This semester, Professor Mike Bryson is teaching a Service & Sustainability seminar focusing on urban agriculture in Chicago. Here is a recent post he made about the course’s activities. This past Wednesday was the third week for my SUST 350 … Continue reading
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Fisk and Crawford Power Plants to Close by End of 2014
The Fisk and Crawford coal-fired power plants, long blamed for cardiovascular and respiratory disease in Pilsen and Little Village, will be closing by the end of 2014 per terms of an agreement this week with the City of Chicago and … Continue reading
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Roosevelt’s Schaumburg Campus Hosts Documentary The Interrupters Today at 5:30pm
Today at 5:30pm, RU’s Schaumburg Campus will host a film screening and discussion of The Interrupters, a critically-lauded story of three “violence interrupters” in Chicago who now protect their communities from the violence that they once employed. This event is free … Continue reading
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Greencorps Helps Chicagoans & Their Environments
The City of Chicago has several programs and institutions that aid the local environment. Some, like the Chicago Center for Green Technology, offer courses. Some, like the Hazardous Household Waste Dropoff Center on Goose Island, provide residents with ways of … Continue reading
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