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Now in its 18th year, Chicago’s award-winning multimedia public affairs series returns in 2008 with Chicago Matters: Growing Forward to examine how the choices we make today impact our environment and the future of our region.

Chicago Matters is made possible by The Chicago Community Trust, with programming by Chicago Public Radio, WTTW 11, the Chicago Public Library, and The Chicago Reporter.

Visit www.chicagomatters.org for more information.
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Chicago Matters Looks at the Waste We Generate
Reduce, reuse and recycle—blue bags and blue carts—that’s what we hear. But Chicago lags far behind cities like New York and San Francisco in the amount of trash we actually recycle. All this month Chicago Matters: Growing Forward is taking a look at waste. Just what happens to all that trash we generate?
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Taking Recycling to New Heights
Posted 10.14.08 by Eight Forty-Eight

Chicago officials say about 62-percent of Chicago's garbage ends up in landfills. Recycling is one way to reduce that figure. But currently, there's no plan for recycling in commercial and residential high rise buildings. That's a large chunk of the city's total waste stream. Some high rises have taken the initiative to implement their own recycling programs. And one of the tallest in the world has shown how easy it can be. As part of our series Chicago Matters: Growing Forward, we learn how the Sears Tower is joining the effort to cut down on waste.
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Taking Recycling to New Heights

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Growing a Business One Tomato at a Time

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School Lunches Go Local

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Taking Recycling to New Heights

Over the last year and half the tallest building in North America has downsized considerably, at least in terms of its paper waste.

Posted on 10.14.2008
Taking Recycling to New Heights

Over the last year and half the tallest building in North America has downsized considerably, at least in terms of its paper waste.

Posted on 10.14.2008
Growing a Business One Tomato at a Time

Todd and Julia McDonald are trying to make a go of it as farmers. We check in on how Chicago's farmers' markets have treated them.

Posted on 9.30.2008
School Lunches Go Local

There are a lot more vegetables on school lunch trays these days.

Posted on 9.16.2008
EPA Begins Clean Up in Little Village

A hazardous waste site is getting cleaned up but residents remain concerned.

Posted on 9.9.2008
The End of the Pipe

Come along as we trace the history and future of greater Chicago's water supply.

Posted on 8.5.2008
Green Fashion Meets Trashion

Have you thought about how what you wear might impact the planet? Two Chicago women have and they're on a mission to change our clothing habits.

Posted on 7.22.2008
Going Green in the 'Burbs

One woman in the Chicago suburbs has created her own door-to-door campaign - to get her neighbors to adopt a more eco-conscious lifestyle.

Posted on 7.8.2008
Is the Grand Calumet River Worth Saving?

Some say yes because it pours millions of gallons of polluted water into Lake Michigan.

Posted on 6.24.2008
Right Now: Live from the Englewood Farmers' Market

Join Richard Steele at the first ever Englewood Farmers' Market.

Posted on 6.19.2008
Weather Trouble for Veggie Farmers

We check in with Todd and Julia McDonald as they get ready for the farmers markets.

Posted on 6.11.2008
Grey Water on the Shores of Lake Michigan

Grey water recycling has arrived in the region.

Posted on 6.10.2008
Rail Program Struggles to Stay on Track

A public-private partnership called CREATE aims to relieve freight-train congestion in the Chicago area. But after five years of work, the program could stall without an infusion of funds.

Posted on 6.3.2008
Chicago Matters: Growing Forward Live from Green Fest

Alison Cuddy hosts a live conversation from Chicago's Green Festival.

Posted on 5.19.2008
Buying and Selling Green

Just about everybody is marketing something green these days.

Posted on 5.16.2008
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