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Oct 242012
 

What I’m Loving: Unnatural Spaces
Instigating a broad cultural shift toward greater sustainability means taking the voices of everyday people seriously. This is why I enjoyed “Unnatural Spaces,” a play created by the Performance Poetry Incubator project of the Guild Complex. The final three performances will take place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Visit their blog for more information and to purchase tickets.

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Sustainability Reading List

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Sep 262012
 

Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the
New Energy Era
by Amory Lovins
Reinventing Fire shows how business-motivated by profit, supported by civil society, sped by smart policy-can get the US completely off oil and coal by 2050, and later beyond natural gas as well.

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Sep 192012
 

Slide Mountain Or, The Folly of Owning Nature
by Theodore Steinberg
Americans’ obsession with owning nature was immortalized by Mark Twain in the tale of Slide Mountain, where a landslide-prone Nevada peak turned the American dream of real estate into dust. In relating these modern-day “Slide Mountain” stories, Steinberg illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner.

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Sep 142012
 

Design for Society
by Nigel Whiteley
A book from 1993 that is still well worth a look. Design for Society is not an anti-design treatise; rather, it is an anti-consumerist-design book, in that it reveals what most people would agree are the socially and ecologically unsound values and unsatisfactory implications on which the system of consumer focused design is constructed. In so doing, it prepares the ground for a more responsible and just type of design.

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Sustainability Summer Reading List

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Sep 062012
 

We’ve asked Chicago sustainability professionals for summer reading recommendations.
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George
Recommended by: Debra Shore, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.

Rose George takes aim at the taboo, revealing everything that matters about how people do-and don’t-deal with their own waste.

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Aug 212012
 

We’ve asked Chicago sustainability professionals for summer reading recommendations.

Biomimicry in Architecture by Michael Pawlyn
Recommended by: Amy Coffman Phillips, Architect and Sustainability Consultant at Liquid Triangle

The six core chapters of this book seek to answer six key environmental questions: How could we build more efficient structures? How will we manufacture materials? How we will create zero-waste systems? How will manage water? How will we control our thermal environment? How will we produce energy for our buildings?

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Aug 142012
 

We’ve asked Chicago sustainability professionals for summer reading recommendations. As a parting gift, our very own Uzma Noormohamed makes this recommendation.

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
by John Cassidy

This book describes the rising influence of what John Cassidy calls utopian economics-thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the many ways an unregulated free market can produce disastrous unintended consequences.

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Jul 032012
 

summer_readingWe’ve asked Chicago sustainability professionals for summer reading recommendations. This week’s recommendation:

The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
by Charles Fishman

Recommended by:
Debra Shore
Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

“In the last century, we moved water to people. In the next century, people will move to water.”

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What Immersionists Are Loving: Eye-Opening Moments

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Jun 262012
 

We asked this year’s Immersionists what their favorite part of week one was, and here’s what they had to say:

Carolyn Beckman:
My favorite site visit was Access Living. I had never thought in terms of universal accessibility before and wish that more people were aware of this. It was amazing to see the functional and affordable ways they made the building accessible to everyone.

Jennifer Long:
I was most inspired by Lindsay James’ discussion of biomimicry. If the earth does not do something naturally, then we should not do it. We need design to change with the Earth in mind and to maintain its natural function.

Lindsey Freel:
My favorite portion of Immersion thus far has been the experience of getting to know Chicago’s sustainable innovators and their paths to reaching these goals. The exposure to so many different places and people in such a short time really begins to paint a picture of how all these sustainable systems are working throughout the city.

Meet the other 2012 Immersionists

 

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