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@gmail.com> wrote: From: Terry Bergdall <bergdall2@gmail.com> Subject: [Dialogue] GreenRise successes at 4750 To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe@wedgeblade.net>, "Colleague Dialogue" <dialogue@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 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net