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Greening Your Block - Greening The Planet!

Greening Your Block - Greening The Planet!


The Ultimate 12 Step-Program Towards a Green Planet


Join Us For a Monthly Meeting:

In many places, effects of climate change are already obvious. How do
we create a sustainable future? By joining forces! Together, we can
explore, coordinate, and encourage sustainable living here in Chicago
and surrounding towns.


We have come to believe we are powerless over many things:
corporations,
government, our neighbors, even nature. But we can change ourselves!
Block by block, we can green our neighborhoods.  In this new 12-step
program we will hold each other accountable for our actions that affect
our world.


Support, Joyful Sharing, Accountability, Healthy People and a
Healthy Planet. One commitment per month per person to green one's
Life-Style.

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Every Meeting follows a simple three step process:
• Collecting knowledge and ideas about the topic of the month
• Everybody decides on "what do I want to commit to this month? One step at a time!"
• How to do that "one-step"? Advising and supporting each other.
The meeting will be closing with confirming the topic of the upcoming month

A blog/web site will not only support this process through communication and information,
but
is also to spread the idea and invite more groups to come into
existence, one block at a time. This Idea and Manifestation of Wellbeing
and Beauty is to spread like plants,
never knowing which seed is next to pop up and blossom out of nowhere.
The newly created still empty web site is: http://www.green-block.org/
Who has experience with creating blogs?


Theme suggestions: 

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1- January:      Energy Efficiency - Heating and beyond- Green Energy
Providers. Making your house energy efficient. The scoop on
solar/wind/geothermal power.
2- February:    Conscious Living Every Day & Recycling - Reusing
3- March:        Green Retirement Funds for Your No-Tax-Money
4- April:           The great outdoors: gardening, composting, and prairie lawns.
5- May:            Earth, Plants and Beauty: How to create a healthy indoors, and healthy outdoors.
6- June:            Living with the Seasons, Farmers Markets, Small Local Companies, CSAs.
7- July:             Energy Efficiency - Cooling and beyond
8-August:          Traveling: Greening your vacations
9-September:         Your body: Healthcare, dental care, beauty care.
10-October:         Eat so you and others can live!
11-November:     Breaking the car habit.  How you can bike more and drive less.
12-Christmas:       How to celebrate the holidays without hurting the planet. 


When: Sundays, March 30, April 27, May 25, June 29        
8:30am - 10:30am
Cost: Free
Location: Inner Metamorphosis University Click here
Register: Not required
Contact: call 773-262-1468 - to email please use our contact form


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