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Chicago’s Green Renaissance

What is Chicago doing to become a greener city?

RiverWired gives the inside scoop in this video. Check out Chicago’s City Hall roof, it’s municipal vehicles, the accessible recycling programs, and the new Center for Green Technology which was built on a former industrial waste site.

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This entry was posted on Friday, November 16th, 2007 at 2:13 pm and is filed under Community, Design & Architecture, Recycle & Reuse. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Chicago’s Green Renaissance”

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    May 13th, 2008 at 11:02 am

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  2. Chicago’s First Hybrid Bus | The Go Green Blog Says:
    June 24th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    […] Chicago’s CTA is now running a test hybrid bus on the #8 Halsted line. The new bus gets 7-8 mpg, as compared to the 2-3 mpg for their current diesel buses. CTA officials are working to calculate if the nearly $200,000 more for the hybrid will be off-set over time with fuel savings. Share This […]

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