[Oe List ...] Greenrise success/Jaime's column
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Mon May 20 09:18:45 PDT 2013
Joyful congratulations to ICA, young Joseph, Jaime and his university
community.
Jann
In a message dated 5/20/2013 3:33:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
jrvergarajr2031 at aol.com writes:
Nice timing. Had the following in the works when Terry's announcement
came. Should be in the Wednesday edition:
Urban Green
We look down from the eleventh floor of the Friendship Villa residence of
foreign faculty members and students to a four-story building that stands
between us and the six-lane traffic near Shenyang Aerospace University’s
south gate. We lamented last year’s start of construction when what used to
be a grass-covered lot the size of a football field fronting our building
suddenly got the whole complement of earth movers, scoopers, bulldozers,
cement mixers, and two towering cranes that moved workloads around.
That would have been about the time our Belgian teacher colleague handed
us a paper cup with water and a floating sliver of grass that, he said, “
will thrive without requiring much attention.”
We decided that we would at least add plants to our window ledge and get
some oxygen processed back into the air. We have since expanded our
repertoire of greens and have made the tending of them an integral part of our
daily play-attention exercise.
Worked stopped at the construction site over the winter allowing for the
cement to mature, and this week, the crane started moving again. Styrofoam
was laid on the rooftop covered with what we thought from a distance as
black tar. I assumed the addition would control indoor climate in insulating
the building from the six months of cold as the heat-absorbent black tar
blankets the warmth inside.
The construction that includes two five-story towers at the south gate
blocks traffic but the ever enterprising Chinese students always manage to
find a short cut, if they have to down a temporary fence to create one, so we
follow the beaten path when we exit by foot from the dorm to the road.
Cutting across construction yesterday revealed that the “black tar” on
the roof is actually rich loam of soil spread over the Styrofoam to grow a
rooftop lawn and garden. WOW. Not that it should have surprised us. After
all, we are a new satellite city and planners often get extra credit for
adding a touch of urban green into their plans.
Which is just as well. The garden aesthetics will make the new building
tolerable for we noted that buildings in China are not built to last a
century. They tend to deteriorate fast. The dilapidating University Design
Department building two blocks west of us have byzantine features, possibly a
leftover from the days when Marushka with the babushka and Boris with the
shapka-ushanka helped design campus structures. It will soon come down.
We do not have any complaints with the systemic green care of the common
grounds as workers these spring transfer potted plants of yellow carnation
and marigold, tulip and daffodil, lily and gardenia, iris and violet into
planters along the pathways and the road. We already noted the instant
forest that is by the soccer field in anticipation of the athletes’ practice
during August’s China Games.
It is our care indoor that need some attention, not just by the hired
maintenance help but the “stakeholders”, the ones who use the buildings, the
offices, and the classrooms.
(I recall former PSS Commissioner Liz Rechebei saved for us from her yard
a dozen seedlings of ilang-ilang while we taught at SVES, which we grew on
a hallway corner before transplanting them into the ground. I know of at
least four of them that survived; at the time, the plantings were intended
for aesthetics and fragrant flowers, as Saipan can be naturally green if we
do not mess up mother nature too much).
It is altogether different in cold Dong Bei. Keeping our ledge on the
11th floor green with potted plants is an exercise in intentionality as the d
oing itself becomes a part of our “spiritual” exercise. No, we are not
talking about fuzzy-hairy weird religious practice here. We are referring to
the human practice of playing attention to one’s consciousness, the same
that we prescribe in our oral English classes where students are enabled to “
describe their sense experience, express their feelings, articulate their
thoughts, and formulate their intentions.”
The spirit exercise in this case is the silence before the spoken word.
Specifically, on the eleventh floor, I have a cutting board where I chop
fruit (e.g., mango, orange, banana) and vegetable (e.g., cucumber, carrot,
cabbage) peelings while doing my inhaling and exhaling rhythm, then pulp and
dry all the organic leftovers by hand, the fruits providing pleasant scents
in the room, mix and compost the lot into the soil that we keep for potted
plants. We get our composting and tai chi done in half hour!
Fourteen time zones away on the other side of the planet, in my former
home Uptown in Chicago, residents of the GreenRise Intentional residential
community in the old 8-story Kemper Insurance building on 4750 North Sheridan
Rd. are keeping the place urban green by Chicago standards. A 20-yr old
resident just won a grant to develop the building’s roof gardens; this, while
the roof also will be outfitted with renewable energy panels.
We are clear that there is no stopping climate change in a planet whose
humans consume 1.5 times more than old Gaia’s holding capacity. We will be
content with adaptation measures, whether in Dong Bei or the north shores of
Lake Michigan. The systemic care is a function of our politics;
individual care is a function of our spirit exercises.
Om!
(javascript:void(0)) j'aime la vie
Yesterday, appreciate; tomorrow, anticipate; today, participate. In all,
Celebrate!
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Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 21:03:00 -0500
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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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Terry, What wonderful work ICA is doing in Chicago under your leadership.
Congratulations to all! It is great to see the recognition you are getting.
Ann Shafer
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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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Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 02:12:36 +0000
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That is very good news!! What a wonderful example of the power of focused
collective energy. And a double hooray on winning the grant for the solar
project!!! Congratulations to the ICA staff and the body of support that
enabled
these victories!
Joyce Sloan
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Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 21:16:34 -0500
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Fantastic! Congratulations to all!
Sent from my iPhone
On May 19, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Terry Bergdall <_bergdall2 at gmail.com_
(mailto:bergdall2 at gmail.com) > wrote:
> 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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Fantastic! Congratulations to all!
Sent from my iPhone
On May 19, 2013, at 9:03 PM, Terry Bergdall <_bergdall2 at gmail.com_
(mailto:bergdall2 at gmail.com) > wrote:
> 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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Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 22:47:43 -0400 (EDT)
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That's great Terry, et al! Congratulations! Well done and thanks for
sharing.
Ellie
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Last week, Iinvited folks to go online and vote for the rooftop garden
project
coordinatedby a young 21-year old member of the GreenRise Intentional
Residential Community at 4750, JosephTaylor.
I am delighted to announcethat, with your help, this project won the Ford
Community Green Grant today at the Chicago GreenFestival, A Project of
Green
America and Global Exchange. There are similarFestivals 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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Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 23:10:34 -0400
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Congratulations one and all! We had lunch with long time colleague Ann
Antenen yesterday and she was asking whether there was a rooftop garden
yet. She will be delighted with this news.
Keep up the good work, Norm and Judy Lindblad
On Sunday, May 19, 2013, Terry Bergdall wrote:
> 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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