Chicago Green Festival and more
This weekend, three cities are celebrating Earth Day with Green Festivals. I had the fortune of meeting some great people from Yes! magazine who came to town just for the Festival including Susan Gleason, Fran Korten and Neva Welton. An open-spacey dinner, with much discussion of wiki-culture, and an exploration of our cross-connected networks of social justice, media, technology and environment. A great prelude to the eChicago Symposium held at Dominican University.
My only regret is that the between the eChicago Symposium, family obligations and the Green Festival, I wasn’t able to attend the conference at the University of Chicago put on by the Invisible Institute’s ‘The View from the Ground’ … Issues and Inquiries Arising from Eight Blocks of Chicago’s South Side.
This conference will explore issues, themes, and lines of inquiry that have emerged from the eight square blocks that once were the Stateway Gardens public housing development on Chicago’s South Side. Its aim is to enrich public discourse about fundamental issues–race, class, gender, impunity, and institutional denial–by grounding the conversation in the realities of life in an inner city community during a time of “transformation” . . .
I’ve written before about Jamie Kalven of the Invisible Institute.
Each of the three events deals with profound aspects of social justice and brought together some amazing people. Is Chicago awakening?