Partnering for Sustainable Chicago

Partnering for Sustainable Chicago1

Partnering for Sustainable Chicago

Network Directory

Alliance for the Great Lakes
Julie Kelso
Adopt a Beach
17 N. State Street, Suite 1390
Chicago, IL60602
Phone: 312-939-0838


Angelic OrganicsLearningCenterChicago
Martha Boyd
6400 South Kimbark Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-288-5462

/ AngelicOrganicsLearningCenter helps urban and rural people build local food systems. We offer opportunities to grow healthy food and a better quality of life, connect with farmers and the land, and learn agricultural and leadership skills. The LearningCenter, a nonprofit organization, reaches more than 4,000 people each year through our programs at partner farms and urban growing sites in northern Illlinois and southern Wisconsin.
BioVision2020
Liane C. Casten
1030 Asbury Ave.
Evanston, IL60202
Phone: 847-869-9144
Fax: 847-869-9145
/ BioVison2020 aims to educate the public about the corruption of our food supply with new technologies that have not been proven safe.
Blacks in Green; Daughter’s Trust
Naomi Davis, J.D.
1417-19 East 79th Street
Chicago, IL60619
Phone: 773-374-4323
Fax: 773-374-4658
/ Daughter's Trust, The Village Builders: Building Green, Self-Sustaining, Mixed-IncomeMicroVillages. A New Paradigm For Economic Development In Blighted & Gentrifying African American Communities.
The Boeing Company, Global Corporate Citizenship
Christy Uchida, Community Investor
100 N. Riverside Plaza, MC 5002-8450
Chicago, IL60606-1596
Phone: 312-544-2303
Fax: 312-544-2077
/ In Boeing's Global Corporate Citizenship, our role is to encourage and support our communities--to convene, listen, respect and fund their important work to make the world better. We leverage Boeing's global objectives in five focus areas (education, arts and culture, health and human services,civic and environment) to achieve the greatest impact in communities where we live and work.
BrickYardGarden
Dorothy Pytel
Garden Address: 6115 S. Woodlawn
Chicago, IL60637
Mailing Address: 6121 S. Woodlawn
Chicago, IL60637
Phone: 773-288-7984
/ The BrickYardGarden is a community garden where urban dwellers have been cultivating vegetables, flowers, fruit and community since 1975.
The Burnham Plan Centennial
Laurie Scott, Program Manager
c/o Chicago Metropolos 2020
30 W. Monroe – 18th Floor
Chicago, IL60603
Phone: 312-332-6179
Fax: 312-332-2626

/ To inspire our region’s communities, leaders and institutions to build on the success of the 1909 Burnham Plan and act boldly together to shape our future.
ChicagoBotanic Garden
Patsy Benveniste, VP, Community
Education Programs
1000 East Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL60022
Phone: 847-835-6945
Fax: 847-835-4484

/ The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385 acre living plant collection and visitor destination museum with extensive program offerings in K-12 and post-secondary education (including partnered graduate programs with area universities); an extensive and rapidly expanding plant conservation and science research agenda; and a large urban agriculture, youth leadership and development and adult jobs training commitment in the city of Chicago and other off-site locations.
ChicagoBotanic Garden
Anna D. Viertel, Coordinator
SchoolGardens
1000 East Lake Cook Road
Glencoe, IL60022
Phone: 847-650-7305
Fax: 847-242-6348

/ The ChicagoBotanic Garden’s Community Gardening Department supports community gardening and urban farming through policy, funding, and youth programming initiatives. We run Green Youth Farms in several Chicago neighborhoods, build and support school gardens, offer mini-grants and training and technical assistance opportunities, and run an adult education program in an effort to train for green collar jobs.
Chicago Media Watch
Liane C. Casten
1030 Asbury Ave.
Evanston, IL60202
Phone: 847-869-9144
Fax: 847-869-9145

/ Chicago Media Watch aims to alert the public about the stories hidden or blacklisted by the corporate press.
Chicago Wilderness Leave No Child Inside Initiative
Mary Kenahan
Chicago Wilderness, 8 South Michigan, #900
Chicago, IL60603
Phone: 312-545-1007
Fax: 312-346-5606

/ The Chicago Wilderness Leave No Child Inside initiative is an effort to promote children’s health and foster generations of kids who care about nature enough to protect it as adults.
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
Keith Holt
9 West Hubbard #402
Phone: 312-427-3325 ext. 244
Fax: 312-4274907

/ The mission of the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, founded in 1985, is to improve the bicycling environmet wint and thereby the quality of life in the region. With more than 5,000 members, we do this by promoting bicycle safety, education and facilities, and by encouraging use of bicycle as an energy-efficient, economical and non-polluting form of transportation and as a healthful and enjoyable form of recreation.
The Chicagoland Bicycle Federation recognizes the synergies between promoting bicycling and promoting walking and public transit. We align our advocacy with social equity and community improvement and we embrace the power of a broad multi-modal coalition to achieve our mission.
The Community Builders, Inc.
David Block
Senior Project Manager
1 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1200
Chicago, IL60602
/ The Community Builders is the largest non-profit, urban housing developer in America. Since 1964, we have completed more that 21,000 units of affordable, mixed-income housing. We manage over 8,750 units of housing serving low-income families, the elderly, and special needs populations.
Eco-Justice Collaborative
Lan or Pam Richart
1645 W. Jarvis Avenue
Chicago, IL60626
Phone: 773-556-3417

/ The Eco-Justice Collaborative is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising public awareness of the consequences of U.S. lifestyle choices on people and our planet. Through a variety of media, popular education presentations and events EJC seeks to provoke thought, open discussions and encourage changes that will bring about a more environmentally sustainable and just world.
The Environmental Action Group
Robert Elchert
3327 S. Halsted Street
Chicago, IL60608
Phone: 773-517-3540
/ The EAG is a student organization through the School of Social Service Administration that seeks to highlight the connection between human and environmental rights its relevancy to social work practice.
The Experimental Station
Connie Spreen
6100 South Blackstone Avenue
Chicago, IL60637

/ The Experimental Station is a not-for-profit (501-c-3) incubator of innovative cultural, educational, and environmental projects and small-scale enterprises.
Faith in Place
Rev. Clare Butterfield
2532 West Warren Boulevard
Chicago, IL60612
Phone: 312-733-4640
Fax: 312-733-4610

/ Faith in Place gives religious people tools to become better stewards of Creation. Since 1999 we have partnered with over 300 congregations, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Baha’i, Muslim, Sikh, Zoroastrian, to conserve energy, develop renewable power and support sustainable farming.
Faithful Few
Denard Jacox
1448 E. 52nd Street, #164
Chicago, IL60615
Phone: 773-426-3472

FaithfulFew.org / Advocate activities and events for At-Risk/ADD/ADHD children and young adults.
Rodger Field
Office of Regional Counsel
EPA Chicago

The FieldMuseum, Center for Cultural Understanding and Change
Jennifer Hirsch, Ph.D.
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL60605-2496
Phone: 312-665-7480
Fax: 312-665-7482

/ The Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) at The Field Museum uses problem-solving anthropological research to identify and catalyze strengths and assets of communities in Chicago and beyond. In doing so, CCUC helps communities identify new solutions to critical challenges such as education, housing, health care, environmental conservation, and leadership development. Through research, programs, and access to collections, CCUC reveals the power of cultural difference to transform social life and promote social change.
The FieldMuseum, Independent Scholar
Christine Dunford
529 N. Michigan Ave. #2
Evanston, IL60202
Phone: 847-564-6198
/ Currently working with The New Allies for Nature and Culture at the FieldMuseum. I am also currently a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern completing a dissertation in the department of Performance Studies on how people deploy ideas of nature and produced nature to accomplish economic, political, and social agendas.
GaryComerYouthCenter
Marjj Hess, Garden Manager
7200 S. Ingleside Ave.
Chicago, IL60619
Phone: 773-358-4070
Fax: 773-358-4089

/ Youth center and community outreach program located in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood. Utilize rooftop garden and community spaces to improve the lives ofour youth and community.
Global Warming Challenge
Richard S. Treptow, Ph. D.
3905 Tower Drive
Richton Park, IL60471
Phone: 708-747-0649
Fax:709-481-6869
/ Dr. Treptow, professor emeritus of ChicagoStateUniversity, is an environmentalist and member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. He gives presentations and workshops on global warming to educational, community and governmental groups.
HPKCC
Vijayarani Fedson
5705 South Blackstone Ave., Apt. 2
Chicago, IL60637
Phone:773-684-3867

/ A recently-formed Taskforce of the HPKCC which is trying to raise awareness of the principles and practical details of sustainable living in the community.
Hyde Park Historical Society
Jack Spicer
5529 South Lake Park Avenue
Chicago, IL60637
Phone: 773-493-1893
Jack Spicer Phone: 773-324-6017

IL Department of Natural Resources
Deborah Stone

IndianaUniversity Northwest,
School of Public and Environmental Affairs
Ellen Szarleta-Yancy, Ph.D., J.D.
3400 Broadway, MP 2117
Gary, Indiana, 46408
Phone: 219-980-6698
Fax: 219-980-6737
/ Urban university offering a Master’s in Public Affairs.
Jacqueline W. Henderson
1100 East 55th Street
Chicago, IL60615
Phone: 773-752-9227
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The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs
Asaf Bar-Tura
610 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 500
Chicago, IL60605
Phone: 312-663-0960 x110
Fax: 312-663-5305

/ The Jewish Council on Urban Affairs combats poverty, racism and anti-Semitism in partnership with Chicago’s diverse communities.
Julia Govis
5341 S Maryland Ave.
Chicago, IL60615
Phone: 773-288-0822 cell 630-802-6888

Keep Chicago Beautiful (KCB)
Joyce Kagan Charmatz, President
25 East Washington Street, Suite 1104
Chicago, IL60602
Phone: 312-863-6196
Fax: 312-863-6194
/ Keep Chicago Beautiful (KCB) Environmental Workshops for Teachers and Students Studying to be Teachers started in 1990 with a grant from the Chicago Community Trust which continue to receive race reviews from teachers, and students, in colleges and universities in the Chicagoland area.
Kenosha / RacineLand Trust
Peter Wardrip

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO)
Kimberly Wasserman Nieto
2856 South Millard Avenue
Chicago, IL60623
Phone: 773-762-6991
Fax: 773-762-6993

/ Our mission is to work with our families, coworkers, and neighbors to improve our environment and lives in Little Village and Chicago through democracy in action. We work for a real voice in building democracy, including if, how, when and where any development of our communities takes place, as the basis for environmental, economic and social justice.
LutheranSchool of Theology Green Zone and the Web of Creation
David Rhoads
1100 East 55th Street
Chicago, IL60615
Phone: 773-256-0774
Fax: 773-256-0782

and / The Green Zone fosters greening of the Lutheran Seminary in worship, education, building and grounds, lifestyle of members, and political advocacy. The Web of Creation ( provides environmental resources for faith communities.
Madiem Kawa
WashingtonPark Conservancy
Phone: 773-203-3418
/ Have fun while restoring WashingtonPark’s nature areas near the lagoons’ edge. Work Day 2008 Schedule: Every third Saturday from March to October between 9am until 12pm. Watch out for the details of the big aquatic planting day in May. Refreshments, tools, & gloves will be provided.
The Material Exchange
John Preus, Founder
5460 South Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL60615
Phone: 773-640-6767

/ Material Exchange investigates the value structures that permit and encourage surplus, waste, and resource depletion, in a world where extreme material and intellectual need is common and visible. We invent objects and processes that consider ways in which value becomes attached to things. In so doing, we hope to invent, cultivate, promote, and foster micro-economies dedicated to experimental living.
McCormick Theological Seminary
Ted Hiebert
5460 South University Avenue
Chicago, IL60615
Phone: 773-947-6341

ME4E: Multidisciplinary Education for the Environment
Emily Kenny


MeadvilleLombard Theological School
Professor Michael Hogue
5701 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL60637
Phone: 773-256-3000(x233)

/ Meadville Lombard is an academically rigorous, unapologetically progressive Unitarian Universalist theological school, affiliated with the University of Chicago.
Meadville-Lombard Theological School
Rev. Qiyamah Rahman

The Morton Arboretum
Andrew Hipp
4100 Illinois Route 53
Lisle, IL60543-1293
Phone: 630-725-2094


The Morton Arboretum
Edith Makra, Community Tree Advocate

Natural Path Urban Forestry Consultants
Mark Duntemann
5455 South Ingleside #1E
Chicago, IL60615
Phone: 773-699-7284

/ Principally provide urban forestry management services to government agencies in the United States, Europe and South America. Also provide forensic and expert witness testimony in tree-related litigation cases.
North Side Green Party
Walter Esler
5046 West Wrightwood
Chicago, IL60639
Phone: 773-637-6701
Fax: Same, call first

/ Green Local in North and Northwest Side Chicago. We work to further the 10 Key Green values. We have been active in the anti war effort, other energy issues, global warming, community issue, grass roots organizing, advocacy, and ballot access for progressive, environmental, peace, Green candidates.
Northwestern University Community-Based Participatory Research Program
Jen Kauper-Brown
750 North Lake Shore Dr., 11th Floor
Chicago, IL60611
Phone: 312-503-2942
Fax: 312-503-5388

/ The Program supports and promotes engaged research between local community organizations and academic partners that respects community input and builds upon the strengths of involving community partners in all aspects of research.
The NotebaertNatureMuseum
Jill Riddell
Vice President of Exhibits and Strategic Initiatives
2430 North Cannon Drive
Chicago, IL60614
Phone: 773-755-5145

/ The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its PeggyNotebaertNatureMuseum inspire people to learn about and care for nature and the environment. The Academy improves quality of life in Chicago and the region by delivering superior environmental and science education programs to students and teachers, by offering Museum exhibitions and conducting public programs that foster green living, and by restoring local ecosystems and advancingscientific knowledge through collections and research.
On Site Services
Jack Preus
5460 South Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL60615
Phone: 773- 640-6767
/ Founded On Site Services in collaboration with Ken Dunn and the ResourceCenter. We accept tax-deductible donations of used cabinetry, office furniture and other bulk items such as building materials.
One Two One Art Collective
Theodore Boggs
2524 N. Campbell, #3
Chicago, IL60647
Phone: 847-274-1687
/ Artists Group seeking social change through recycling materials, ideas, and information.
Openlands
Joyce O’Keefe
25 East Washington, Suite 1650
Chicago, IL60602
Phone: 312-863-6263
Fax: 312-427-6251

/ Openlands is a 44-year old nonprofit conservation organization that works throughout the metropolitan area to protect open space. We do policy development, advocacy, greenways and trails planning, community greening and land preservation.
Openlands
Shirlee Hoffman, Native Habitats Project Manager
25 East Washington Street, Suite 1650
Chicago, IL60602-1708
Phone: 312-863-6257
Fax: 312-863-6251

/ Openlands, founded in 1963, is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing public open space in northeastern Illinois. The Native Habitats program has been funded to install a limited number of native habitat demonstration gardens in highly visible locations during 2008 and 2009.
Openlands, Community Greening Department
Julie Samuels, Glenda Daniels, Ena Kumar
24 East Washington Street
Chicago, IL60601
Phone: 312-863-6256 (Julia Samuels)
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/ Conservation Non-Profit Organization; Regional and City-Wide
The ResourceCenterChicago
Ken Dunn
222 East 135th Place
Chicago, IL60627
Phone: 773-821-1351
Fax: 773-821-7462

/ For over 30 years, the ResourceCenter, a non-profit environmental education organization, has led the way in demonstrating innovative techniques for recycling and reusing materials. Too often in the urban setting, abundant and important resources are wasted. Our recovery work aims to reverse waste and to improve the quality of life for urban dwellers. We have been devoted from the beginning to the economic and educational revitalization of city neighborhoods through recycling, urban gardening and other programs that reclaim and reuse resources.
Soul Vegetarian Restaurant
Zarakyah Ahmadiel
205 East 75th Street
Chicago, IL60619
Phone: 773-964-3604

Spheres of Influence
Sarah Warren, Ph. D.
480 North McClurg Court, Ste. 513
Chicago, IL60611
Phone: 312-595-1691
Fax: 312-595-1492

/ The mission of Spheres of Influence is to inspire action to save the planet from the threat of climate change, for tomorrow’s child.
TreeKeepers Program of Openlands
Jim DeHorn
5614 W. Cornelia Ave.
Chicago, IL60634-4408
Home Phone: 773-282-5374
Office Phone: 312-863-6259
/ We are one of the early members of the “Citizen Forester” Movement, training volunteer arborists in “Urban Forestry Lite.”
The University of Chicago, Ecology and Evolution
Justin Borevitz
1101 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL60637
Phone: 773-702-5948


The University of Chicago
Sabina Shaikh
Social Sciences Collegiate
Division
Gates Black 219 (mail to Gates-Blake 310)
5845 S. Ellis
Chicago, IL60637
Phone: 773-834-2325

The University of Chicago
Sonya Malunda
6030 South Ellis, Room 162
Chicago, IL60649
Phone: 773-702-4568
Fax: 773-834-0379

/ The Office of Community and Government Affairs at the University of Chicago works in partnership with mid-South Side community to improve the quality of life for all.
The University of Chicago
Theodore L. Steck
920 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL60637
Phone: 773-702-1329
Fax: 773-702-3172
/ Undergraduate (B.A.) Program in Environmental Studies
The University of Chicago Religion and Environment Initiative (REI)
Dave Aftandilian
1300 E. 56th St., #1
Chicago, IL60637
Phone: 773-834-0621

/ REI is an interfaith student organization at the University of Chicago that organizes lectures, discussions, field trips, and other events that explore traditions of concern for the environment in various world and indigenous religions.
University of Chicago, Sustainability Council
Eric Heineman, Project Manager for Environmental Sustainability
5801 S. Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL60637

sustainability.uchicago.edu / As part of the Office of the Vice President, the faculty, student, and staff members of the Sustainability Council promote and centralize the University's sustainability efforts.
The University of Chicago
Steven M. Wiesenthal
Associate Vice President and University Architect
Phone: 773-834-3529

Urban Earth Day, Kennedy-KingCollege
Prof. Bonnie Harrison
740 W 63rd St
Chicago, IL60621
Phone: 773-783-1140


Urban Lab
Martin Felson
3209 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL60608
Phone: 773-650-1130
Fax: 773-650 1129

/ Martin Felsen and Sarah Dunn co-founded UrbanLab in Chicago in 2000 as a collaborative office practicing sustainable architecture and urbanism. UrbanLab is also a research laboratory actively engaged in examining cities and megalopolises.
Urban Sustainability Authority
Tammy Steels
27 North Wacker Drive, Ste. 145
Chicago, IL60606
Phone: 312-602-9763
Fax: 312-602-9795

/ Urban Sustain's mission is to improve the urban experience. Urban Sustain educate, lead, develop, and advocate reducing disparities for the low-income communities. USA fulfills this purpose through training, research, advocacy, community-based services and programs on issues of environmental health which affects education, and economic empowerment.