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Sadhu Johnston, Chicago's Top Green Official, Quietly Bolts To Vancouver

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 10.20.2009 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley has been saying for years that he wants to make Chicago the greenest city in the country, but his environmental record is decidedly mixed....

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City Earmarking Environmental Stimulus Cash

Chicago Public Radio | Adriene Hill | Posted 08.01.2009 | Chicago

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Chicago will get more than $27 million in Energy Efficient Conservation Block Grants as part of the federal stimulus program....

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Chicago's Green City Campaign A 'Total Public Relations Fraud': Professor

Chi-Town Daily News | MARIAN WANG | Posted 04.20.2009 | Chicago

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For years, Mayor Daley has been talking about making Chicago the "greenest city." Lately, in light of Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid, he's been talking ab...

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What Does Green Mean?

Chicago Reader | Mick Dumke | Posted 11.15.2008 | Chicago

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Mayor Daley and his top aides--and by extension most aldermen--are big on the idea of making Chicago the greenest city in the country. In fact, some s...

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If Paying Taxes is Patriotic, Chicagoans are the Best Patriots on Earth

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 10.31.2008 | Chicago

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Brett Ashley McKenzie

If paying taxes makes you patriotic, Chicagoans should get a memorial built in their honor (or just add Harry Caray's face to Mount Rushmore).

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The Organic Color Line

The Chicago Reporter | Kelly Virella | Posted 10.20.2008 | Chicago

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On a one-acre vegetable farm in Chicago, a bearded, 6 foot, 3 inch-tall black man squats before a bed of green, leafy radishes. Unlike most produce, t...

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A Garden Grows In Cabrini

Chi Town Daily News | Mary Brophy | Posted 09.27.2008 | Home

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Eventually, the land at City Farm in Chicago's Cabrini Green neighborhood will sell for millions of dollars and a development deal. But for now, it s...

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Chicago In Top Fives For Hybrid Cars

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 09.25.2008 | Chicago

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Chicago ranked fifth among American cities for sales of new hybrid cars, according to a survey by Hybridcars.com and reported in the Sun-Times. Chica...

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What It Takes For Chicago To Lead In The Growing Green Economy

Howard Learner | Posted 09.14.2008 | Chicago

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Howard Learner

Within the next three years, one city will emerge as the center of America's clean tech and green business economy. Will it be Chicago?

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Chicago Testing Electric Hybrid Buses

Chicago Sun-Times | MARY WISNIEWSKI | Posted 06.25.2008 | Green

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The CTA is testing a new hybrid electric bus that can get seven to eight miles per gallon -- double the mpg of current CTA hybrids. The new hybrid en...

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