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<font color="black" size="4" face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><font size="4">Nice timing. Had the following in the works when Terry's announcement came. Should be in the Wednesday edition:</font>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";vertical-align:baseline">Urban
Green<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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 <i>babushka</i> and Boris with the <i>shapka-ushanka</i> helped design campus
structures. It will soon come down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">(I recall former PSS Commissioner Liz Rechebei saved
for us from her yard a dozen seedlings of <i>ilang-ilang</i>
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). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">It is altogether different in cold Dong Bei. Keeping our ledge on the 11</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">th</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> floor green with potted plants is an exercise in
intentionality as the doing 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.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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 <i>tai chi </i>done in half hour!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
vertical-align:baseline">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.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
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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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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 <<a href="mailto:bergdall2@gmail.com">bergdall2@gmail.com</a>> 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 <<a href="mailto:bergdall2@gmail.com">bergdall2@gmail.com</a>> 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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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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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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