Chicago Green Events August 2008
Chris Campbell | 
Jul 30th, 2008 | 
August 2, 9:00am
Green in the Loop 1908-2008 Architecture Walking Tour
Daley Plaza
Not your average architectural tour! While Chicago makes strides toward the future to become a green city, what did green mean a century ago? In the early 20th century, architects and engineers did not depend entirely upon the highly advanced technologies we take for granted today. Buildings still relied heavily on tried and true engineering, design, and planning. Learning from past achievements will help illuminate the way toward truly sustainable cities.
August 2-3
Veggie Fest Chicagoland 2008
4 S.175 Naperville Rd, Naperville, IL
Take the Metra (outbound!) to the suburbs for this unique event, touted as Chicagoland’s most popular vegetarian festival. Enjoy delicious healthy food, live bands, and great talks from professionals. Visit the vendors and pick up valuable information on healthy living. Discover something new about your own health by participating in on–site screenings.
August 13, 5:30-8:30pm
GREENer Events Chicago Expo
Peggy Notebaert Museum, 2430 N. Cannon Drive to register
Learn how to host greener events, taste great local and organic food, tour a truly green event site, network with other corporate event planners, and hear a corporate case study by Julie Larson of McDonald’s. Cocktail reception by Greg Christian Catering and Desserts by True Cuisine. Attendees receive a complimentary copy of The Green Events Source Book and other valuable information.
August 15, 6-10pm
Pallandrome Launch Party
Funky Buddha, 728 W. Grand
Come out to sip complimentary cocktails, enjoy organic appetizer, and learn about some of Chicago’s hottest green businesses. Pallandrome provides stylish eco-conscious fashionable clothing and accessories, as well as coordinates eco-friendly networking events in Chicago. The first 200 people to enter will receive complimentary gift bags.
August 23 (11am–9pm) and August 24 (11am–8pm)
Whole Foods FlavorFest
Wrightwood Park (Wrightwood & Ashland in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood)
Come check out Chicago’s only all natural food and lifestyle festival. There will be live music, cooking demonstrations from some of Chicago’s best chefs, yoga, children’s entertainment, as well as live music. Proceeds benefit the Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce.
August 26, 7:00 pm
Do It Now…Go Green: Solar Energy
Chicago Public Library – Edgebrook (312) 744-8313
Learn the advantages of having renewable energy sources in your home. Solar Service will discuss solar photovoltaic (electric) systems and heat and hot water systems for achieving energy independence and protecting the environment. These fully automatic and maintenance-free systems may qualify you to receive Illinois state rebates, federal tax credits and much more.
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Zero Energy Home For Sale
GreenWerks has teamed up with 2 Point Perspective to build a Zero Energy Home in Oak Park. This excellent showcase home is across from a park and a three minute walk to the “El.” This beautiful home will have the LEED Platinum rating, from the USGBC. Zero Energy home would be delivered earth day of 2009, and we are hosting a six week educational series once the home is completed. The educational series will host a series of educational classes, workshops, fundraisers for local green non-profits and tours!
This fantastic home is 2400 sqft, has three bathrooms and four bedrooms. It is powered by the display of solar panels and geothermal for the heating and cooling. It will boast amazing features like Armstrong ceilings, r-40 walls (super insulated), eco-kitchen, bamboo flooring, over sized windows and a savings of $100,000 over a 30 year mortgage in utility costs. This home is being offered for $649,000. If you are interested in seeing detailed plans for the home, please give our office a call or you can email mark [@] greenwerkspro.com.
Offered in the mid 600’s
we add up
The we add up campaign is an organization that is working to end global warming. They print up custom shirts that shows that all the people that care about the environment are adding up. Each shirt has an individual number and theme that you select by what is important to you- such as recycle, wind power, conservation, etc. These shirts are not only stylish, make a political statement by are organic cotton and offered at $25 a piece. visit them online at weaddup.com
Federal Goverment Support Grows for Green Building
With one of the world’s largest real estate portfolios, controlling more than 505,000 buildings, the U.S. government faces a unique challenge in reducing carbon emissions from buildings. Executive orders and legislation have been targeting energy efficiency and green building in government-owned and leased buildings since the early 1990s. Over the last two decades, federal green building principles have evolved, setting more rigorous requirements. Today, with the passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), federal buildings have more specific and ambitious green building requirements, including a goal of zero-net energy buildings by 2030.
This is a fantastic initiative that the federal government has taken and will drive the commercial market to be more green. If you are curious to learn more about this development visit the USGBC website. If you are a commercial property owner who wants to make your building green, you should stop by GreenBuild in Boston in November. This annual conference has thousands of vendors, workshops by the dozens and plenty of networking for green building professionals.
Pallandrome Lauch Party at Funky Buddha
Come out to sip complimentary cocktails, enjoy organic appetizers. Learn about some of Chicago’s hottest green businesses and meet some cool, like minded Chicagoans! The event titles Just Be Cause is at the organic Funky Buddha Lounge and Butterfly social club. The first 200 people to enter will get complimentary gift bags!
GreenWerks will be a sponsor of this fantastic event hosted by pallandrome.com and is proud to be one of the 15 green businesses who will be present at this event. When: August 15th from 6-10pm. Where: Funky Buddha 728 W Grand, Chicago.
To make sure you are there to take advantage of the networking, free food and drinks- RSVP to rsvp@pallandrome.com. If you have any questions about the event you can visit pallandrome.com or call (888) ECO-STYLE (888-326-7895).
I Go Car Sharing
I GO is a non-profit arm of the Center for Neighborhood technology. (cnt.org) This car sharing service is an excellent resource for the Chicagoan that is looking to use a car once in a while. With rates starting at $6 an hour, which includes gas, insurance and the car, this is an excellent alternative to owning a car. GreenWerks has a few employees who are members and personally vouch for this great service.
Car sharing is a service that provides members with access to a fleet of eco-friendly vehicles on an hourly basis. Once you become a member (within 3-5 business days), you can reserve any car you like in advance and drive it for as long as your reservation. It is not like car pool because it is “yours” for that amount of time. It is not like car rental because you PAY BY THE HOUR. Therefore, the best and most cost-effective trips are those that are short in time and distance.
With the price of gas, city stickers, permit stickers, license plates, state stickers, city tickets, insurance and car maintenance- I GO Cars is an great alternative! Check them out online at igocars.org
Go Big by Going Green!
There’s more to going green that just driving a hybrid. Carting the family from place to place while helping preserve the planet is great, but there are ways to help save our planet without ever leaving the house. Living in Chicago doesn’t mean succumbing to the car exhaust and often a lack of space. Even a small home or apartment can offer a place to help conserve. Anyone can recycle, certainly in the city. There are programs in place that will allow most all of your waste products to be recycled.
Composting is also an eco-friendly option open to Chicago residents. Turn your old fruit and vegetable peels, old pieces of wood and grass shavings, even your weeds into usable green compost. A compost heap isn’t always a smelly proposition. There are self-contained composters that have no smell at all, and can provide an entire season worth of rich, fertile compost for you, using only a 3 by 5 section of yard! So do more than just “not-harming” the planet. Actively try to make it better.
Ideal Bite Chicago
Ideal Bite is a great site with bite size tips to go green. They talk about everything from paint, flooring, clothes and anything that can green in a small and manageable way. GreenWerks recently was featured on in the daily bite. So check out their site and sign up for the daily emails that we find helpful. With each post they show how the readers of the their emails can make a difference in the world. For our review the tip was- If 10,000 Chicago Biters choose an alternative, renewable material like bamboo instead of uncertified hardwood to floor their homes, we’ll keep 120,000 trees growing. Which is kind of one of those cool tips of the day!
Al Gore is supporting wind power
All Gore gave a recent talk about how we can use the same eco-friendly solutions will end our dependence on foreign oil, correct the climate crisis and create a rebirth in our economy. Wind power is one of the great resources that our country has an unlimited supply of.
If this video gets you excited- GreenWerks can help you decide and research the best alternative energy solution for your home or business. Wither it is geo-thermal, wind or solar GreenWerks has a solution for your project.
Note: At GreenWerks, we try to stay politically neutral, but we thought this was a good clip to show.
Colori Chicago- Eco-friendly paint store
Colori Chicago is one of GreenWerks premier vendors offering several lines of eco-friendly paint. They have the ability to match any color of the spectrum that you can dream and offer it in an eco-friendly option with out harmful VOC’s or toxins. They carry two lines of paint. First being Lovo- which is a great premium paint that is easy to use and goes on smooth. The newer paint to the line-up is California Paints, which is new to the Chicago market. They offer eco-options for those specialty paint projects- such as metal applications and exterior applications.
In partnership with Colori, we offer a color consultation which is helpful for customers who need a professional opinion on what colors work together. Furniture, flooring and lighting are all taken into consideration for the choice of wall color. We will show you the actual paint colors on large paint chips which are used to see the color in the actual light of the space. We work with the customer to achieve the most visually pleasing results.
GreenWerks offers in home color consultations for $500 for up to the first 2 hours, then $200 per hour for additional hours. In-store color consultations at Colori are complimentary. Give our office a call to schedule your consultation!
This is a picture of the Colori store located in Bucktown- 2243 W. North Ave
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