Filed under: events: DC, events: chicago, green and famous, music — rebecca @ 8:06 pm
August 6th 2007
Colin of GreenDimes recently commented, “Lolla and Virginfest both on the same weekend, and both working towards sustainable futures. Good stuff.” Couldn’t have said it better myself. (Incidentally, Green Dimes just dropped their prices. They’ll now get rid of your junk mail for a flat fee of $15 bucks.) With Lollapalooza in Chicago and Virgin [...]
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Filed under: events: chicago, music — paige @ 8:15 pm
August 5th 2007
Summer music festival season is kicking into high gear with Lollapalooza making a bold green statement this past weekend. Over one-hundred sixty-five thousand people gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park to see 140 bands including Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, Snow Patrol, Interpol, My Morning Jacket, and Spoon just to name a few. While green efforts including [...]
Filed under: events: chicago, green and famous, music — christine @ 6:55 pm
July 26th 2007
Who’s going to do it better? Lollapalooza—Perry Farrell’s musical extravaganza hosted annually in Chicago, this year from August 3-5 with nine stages, 140 bands and 70,000 fans in attendance–recently announced that it stepped up it’s green game in hopes of filling the gaps Live Earth overlooked a few short weeks ago.
The festival’s production company, C3 [...]
Filed under: donations, events: chicago — rebecca @ 5:42 pm
June 15th 2007
Last night Conservation International hosted their annual Chicago Dinner at the Four Seasons, raising over one million dollars for CI’s work to protect and restore the diverse ecosystems that sustains life on Earth. The 20th anniversary event kicked off with CI board member and Chicago influential, Paula Crown announcing that the event was carbon [...]
Filed under: buildings and construction, events: chicago, green and famous — rebecca @ 5:22 pm
May 7th 2007
Last week Bank of America celebrated the grand opening of the first “green roof†Banking Center in Chicago by hosting an environmental awareness and neighborhood beautification day for the Logan Square and Avondale community. And who else to help them kick off the effort than green lifestyle guru Danny Seo. In March, Bank of America [...]
Filed under: buildings and construction, events: chicago, interviews, shopping — rebecca @ 11:02 am
December 7th 2006
Chicago: It is the city paving the way towards a greener America, and today is no different. Last week Baum Development announced the Green Exchange project. Soon to be the first green shopping mall in America, we also expect it to be added to the list of places to spot celebrities in Chicago. If Oprah [...]
Filed under: events: chicago, transport — rebecca @ 11:24 am
August 1st 2006
The 6th Annual Bicycle Film Festival will be passing through Chicago next week. The film festival is on tour, already having passed through NYC, LA, and Minneapolis.
My favorite part: “The Bicycle Film Festival (BFF), complete with complimentary valet bike parking.”
That’s what we need to see more of!
Future dates: London, Aug 31-Sept 2. San Francisco, Sept [...]
