[Dialogue] GreenRise successes at 4750

[Catherine Marsh]

Congratulations!

If you have come to help me, you 



are wasting your time. But if you 



have come because your liberation 



is bound with mine - then let us 



work together." 



- Unknown Aboriginal Woman

--- On Sun, 5/19/13, Terry Bergdall <bergdall2 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Terry Bergdall <bergdall2 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Dialogue] GreenRise successes at 4750
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>, "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013, 9:03 PM
















Last week, I
invited folks to go online and vote for the rooftop garden project coordinated
by a young 21-year old member of the GreenRise Intentional Residential Community at 4750, Joseph
Taylor. 

I am delighted to announce
that, with your help, this project won the Ford Community Green Grant today at the Chicago Green
Festival, A Project of Green America and Global Exchange. There are similar
Festivals happening in Los Angeles (Oct 19-20), San Francisco (Nov 9-10),
Washington, DC (Sept 21-22), and New York (April 19-21). The prize was for
$5,000. If my attachment is successfully transmitted, you can see a photo from the awards ceremony.
Joseph is the tall one in the middle surrounded by supporters.

On a related note, we also received notice last week that the GreenRise Building "solar project" has been awarded a $359,000 grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation to install renewable energy panels on our rooftop. The building at 4750 Sheridan is becoming a VERY high profile embodiment of "green culture" to complement our neighborhood sustainability work across the 77 community areas of Chicago.


Terry Bergdall



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