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Chicago Green City Market

The Chicago Green City Market has started its Indoor Season on Jan 16^th. Green City Market is Chicago’s only year-round farmer’s market that promotes local, sustainable farmers, producers and chefs. The market seeks to connect the public with education programming and special events. Such events include chef demonstrations, community festivals, and programs to encourage youth to try new, local, sustainable foods.

Location: Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

2010 Saturdays: Jan. 16, Feb. 13, Feb. 27, Mar. 13, Mar. 27, Apr. 10 and Apr. 24
8:00 am- 1:00 pm

http://www.chicagogreencitymarket.org/index.asp

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Carbon Credit reduction opportunity right here in Chicago

Carbonfund.org has partnered with The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). The CCX is North America’s largest carbon trading market with an aim to reduce CO2 emissions through targeted emission reductions.

If you were thinking of purchasing carbon offsets and wanted to see the effects a bit more locally then I suggest purchasing through Carbonfund.org. You can easily calculate the amount of carbon to offset for activities such as flying, driving or just donate a flat fee.  During the easy process you can select which activities you want your offsets to be applied to. If you select the “Energy Efficiency & Carbon Credits” option your offsets will go towards the Chicago Climate Exchange program.

Carbonfund.org also has several other options for your offsets to be applied besides the CCX exchange program that include Renewable Energy, Methane Projects, and Reforestation.

UrbanGreenSpot is not affiliated with CarbonFund.org or The Chicago Climate Exchange.

See link for more information.

http://www.carbonfund.org/site/projects/profile/ccx/

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Chicago Green Drinks

On January 13^th, this monthly event that takes places in 300 cities around the world will continue featuring leaders in sustainability movement around Chicago.

The theme of this month’s event is Annual State of Sustainable Chicago (& Power Networking).

The event is an informal meeting featuring networking opportunities, panel speakers, informative table displays, as well as a business card repository. Hosted at Jefferson Tap, it appears to be a place to gather and share new ideas on sustainability and environmental awareness. Internships, volunteers and jobs have been attained from this event.

In the future I will attending this event personally in order to provide detailed coverage of the event and hopefully find leads to even more local green events to provide to the members of UrbanGreenSpot.

January 13, 2010
5:30–8:30pm

Jefferson Tap & Grill
325 N Jefferson St 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60661

Event does suggest preregistration.

See the following link for more information:

http://www.foresightdesign.org/greendrinks/

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