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ICA REPRESENTED AT NORTH SIDE LISTENING SESSION WITH MAYOR-ELECT

6/12/2019

 
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Chief Operating Officer Lesley Showers joined 30 other community leaders for a North Side meeting with the soon-to-be-Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

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HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE OF ICA GREENRISE DISPLAYED ON LANDMARK PLAQUE

6/12/2019

 
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On May 14th, 2019, a new plaque was installed on the facade of ICA GreenRise, a physical display of the building’s status as a Chicago Landmark. It reads:

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SUSTAINABILITY LEADERS VISIT THE PLANT AND WRITE A MEMO TO THE MAYOR

6/12/2019

 
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Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network, a citywide grassroots coalition organized by ICA, gathered for the second meeting of 2019 on the evening of May 16th. The venue was The Plant, a “collaborative community of small food businesses” housed in a 93,500 square foot facility that was once a meat packing plant.

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MEMORIAL HELD IN CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF SALLY STOVALL

6/12/2019

 
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Sally Stovall, a long-time ICA colleague, partner of colleague Dick Alton, and founder of Green Community Connections and One Earth Film Festival passed away suddenly on May 21st, 2019. A memorial service and celebration of her life was held on May 25th at Euclid Avenue Methodist Church in Oak Park, IL, where Sally was a parishioner. Hundreds came out to two separate services, a demonstration of Sally’s leadership, enthusiasm, energy, and unwavering dedication to environmental work. ICA Programs Director Seva Gandhi shared the following remarks at Sally’s memorial:

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COLLEAGUE SPOTLIGHT: MEIDA TERESA MCNEAL

6/12/2019

 
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"My solo performance project, Fifth City revisited, explores the ways that the Fifth City demonstration project exists as a historical example in alignment with much of the coalition building and neighborhood focused planning happening today all across the city, and especially on the South and West Sides. I am interested in those resonances across and making them come alive in interesting ways through performance."

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FIVE DAY SOJOURN WORKS TO RECREATE 50 YEAR HISTORY

5/9/2019

 
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Over the past 50 years, from the Fifth City community development project in 1963 to the fifth year anniversary of Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network in 2018, ICA has developed a wealth of programs, projects, methods, training materials, and more. Over the course of one week each spring and fall, colleagues from across that history gather at the GreenRise to work on a thriving Global Archives project that aims to organize and translate an estimated four million documents into a comprehensive story.

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ACCELERATE77 STORY SHARED AT ASSET-BASED COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

5/9/2019

 
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When Terry Bergdall returned to ICA-USA to serve as CEO in 2009, the organization was in the midst of a missional shift to meet the emerging climate crisis. The City of Chicago was also attempting to respond to climate change, but the government’s approach was to convene expert consultants who crafted environmental programs, and then tried to “sell” them to Chicagoans. ICA believed that this top-down approach to policy-making perpetuated the mentality of treating residents as consumers and in 2011 launched the accelerate77 project to instead show that residents as producers.

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SUSTAINABILITY LEADERS BRING SPRING ENERGY TO MARCH MEETING

4/2/2019

 
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The first Chicago Sustainability Leaders Network (CSLN) meeting of the year carried a sense of new energy with a host of familiar names and faces among the 24 who gathered at Windsor Park Evangelical Lutheran Church.
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Our host, Alvyn Walker, has been deeply involved and active in CSLN for years, just as Windsor Park Church is deeply involved in the life of the South Shore community it calls home. To start the meeting, Alvyn gave a tour of the church, explaining both the challenges and opportunities of maintaining such a community anchor.

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GREENRISE FOCUS OF ICA CEO'S REMARKS AT JUST ECONOMY CONFERENCE

4/2/2019

 
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ICA CEO Ted Wysocki attended the 28th annual Just Economy Conference hosted by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) this past month. He highlighted the role of ICA GreenRise as a community anchor on a panel about Strategies for Preventing Displacement.

Ted shared reflections on his experience at the conference on his personal blog, U2CANDO, in a piece titled “Preventing Displacement & Championing Justice”.
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FACILITATION COMES INTO FOCUS WITH ONE EARTH FILM FESTIVAL

3/7/2019

 
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​For the One Earth Film Festival (OEFF), when the credits roll, the conversation is just beginning.

“The One Earth audience experience often flows like this: watch the film, absorb and digest, discuss and identify an environmental action you can take”, reads a piece titled Focus on Facilitators in this year’s Festival Guide. “We want audience members to leave with something they didn’t have when they arrived, be it fresh information, a deeper understanding, a new connection, or a pledge that will set them on a course of action for the planet.”

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