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Identify - Connect - Engage
The Mayor decides he wants Chicago to be a leading “green city” in the world.
Plan of Action created by the Chicago Department of Sustainability in 2005
new knowledge, practices, courage, and commitment
Youth led garden in an Uptown neighborhood
2011 Urban Academy with students from Oklahoma City University
264 students from 5 Chicago universities in multi-academic disciplines
• Chicago State• DePaul• Roosevelt• Loyola• Northeastern
• Geographic Information Systems• Conservation Psychology• Introduction to Journalism• News Writing• Reporting Metro Chicago• Steans Center – Green Chicago• Environmental Ethics• Freshman Immersion Program• Content Management Systems• Environmental Sustainability• Sustainable Futures• GEO Neighborhood Development
Over 1,000 community initiated activities with documentation on a website
A neighborhood table talking about their group agricultural project at the “Share Fair.”
Share Fair - September 2012 attended by 400
people from 73 of Chicago’s 77 communities
In follow-up to the Share Fair, a strong desire to remain connected
Sharing Session at a Monthly CSLN Gathering
Round Table
Slow Roll Chicago – a community group of
bicyclers that began and grew on the South Side.
Lessons Learned
Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve
fromTehyi Hsieh’s Collection of Chinese Proverbs
A Key Lesson Learned:
Don’t wait for all details to be in place before beginning
but continually work to find the means of moving forward
We live in a sea of insanity where reality and future-oriented values are more often ignored than not.
Rather than despair, faithful action
means creating islands of sanity in communities of practice wherever we can.
Margaret Wheatley
Terry D. Bergdall
The Catalytic Role of an Outsider
to download go to
www.abcdinstitute.org/faculty/bergdall