<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Congratulations!<br><br>If you have come to help me, you <br>
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are wasting your time. But if you <br>
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have come because your liberation <br>
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is bound with mine - then let us <br>
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work together." <br>
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- Unknown Aboriginal Woman<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 5/19/13, Terry Bergdall <i><bergdall2@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Terry Bergdall <bergdall2@gmail.com><br>Subject: [Dialogue] GreenRise successes at 4750<br>To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe@wedgeblade.net>, "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue@wedgeblade.net><br>Date: Sunday, May 19, 2013, 9:03 PM<br><br><div id="yiv34577843"><div dir="ltr">














<p class="yiv34577843" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);">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. </span></p><p class="yiv34577843" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);"><br></span></p><p class="yiv34577843" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26);">I am </span><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;">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.</span></p><p class="yiv34577843" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;"><br></span></p>
<p class="yiv34577843" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;">Terry Bergdall</span></p>

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