by admin | Aug 9, 2014 | Activism, Chicago, Environment, Urban forest, Urban Planning
Would you imagine that the trees in the metropolitan Chicago region provide compensatory value of $51.2 billion? This is the calculation produced through i-Tree, a free software program provided by the U.S. Forest Service to estimate tree canopy and the ecological...
by admin | Jun 29, 2014 | Activism, Chicago, Urban Planning
Bridges come in many forms. There are 37 viaducts along the Bloomingdale Trail, the centerpiece of The 606 Project. It’s a northwest side Chicago project whose progress I have featured on this blog more than once in the past. Those viaducts are physical bridges that...
by admin | May 8, 2014 | Activism, Books, Education
“If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough.” That was the concluding line from Adam Braun, the founder of Pencils of Promise, at a luncheon today at Chicago’s Palmer House Hilton for the Heller School of Business at Roosevelt University. I don’t have any...
by admin | Mar 19, 2014 | Activism, Disaster, Travel
Early in 2008, after I learned that I would be offered a three-week visiting fellowship by the Centre for Advanced Engineering in New Zealand (CAENZ), colleagues and friends had a tendency to ask why that country was so interested in my expertise in planning for...
by admin | Oct 31, 2013 | Activism, Chicago, Education
My wife, Jean, won an award a week ago. It’s not your usual award for best pie at the fair, best scout leader, any of that. It carries a certain degree of controversy with it by its very nature, and she is fine with that. The award came from the Chicago Teachers...
