We are the Whitney Young Eco Club.
Our ten pillars are Gardening, Water, Community, Food, Sustainability, Education, Ecology, Energy, Health and Waste.
Over the past 2 1/2 weeks Eco club has been participating in a school wide Meatless March. Organized by a fellow Whitney Younger Erin P. We asked students to pledge at least one day a week to not eat meat; and currently we have over 30 pledges.
Wil Matthews, a Whitney Young Alum, has even featured Eco Club’s Meatless March in Mind Yourself Chicago’s blog check it out!
http://www.mindyourselfchicago.com/chicago-is-going-meatless-in-a-big-way/
Eco Club: Shamelessly Promoting Since 1984 (:
Check out this backpack from one of our fellow eco club members!
Did you know that teens see 10,000 junk food advertisements every year on television alone? People weren’t lying when they said “an Apple a day, keeps the doctor;” so why don’t fresh veggies get any air time!
“The Go Green! class at the High School for Public Service has designed a to Shout Out to Fresh Veggies campaign to right this wrong and help get the word out about fresh fruits and veggies”
Do you want to help get the word out on fresh fruits and veggies or learn more about the Shout Out To Veggies? then go to http://youthfarm.tencents.info/campaign/ or chick here Shout Out to Fresh Veggies campaign
Don’t forget to SPREAD THE WORD!
Welcome to The Plant!
The Plant is a new kind of organization in a very old building.
Plant Chicago worked with an Illinois’ college to design different green sustainable architectural possibilities for the community surrounding neighborhood.
Inside the Plant and it’s aquaponics system.
The Plant’s Anaerobic digestion system design.
On Friday, December 23rd; the Eco Club visited the Plant, a new Chicago brewery. Now, Plant Chicago is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting sustainable food production, entrepreneurship, and building reuse through education, research and development. The Plant will install an anaerobic digestion and a combined heat and power system to operate completely off the grid.
This allows The Plant will also be energy efficient. Check out The Plant and everything they’re doing at http://www.plantchicago.com/
We want to thank The Plant for giving us a tour and encourage everyone ot check it out.
Eco Jaunt is a year long project, created by a man named Travis and a woman named Swix, documenting what people around the United States are doing to be sustainable and how an average person can be to. The Eco Jaunt team( of the 2), is currently driving around the country with a particular mission;
“To take our cameras and explore and learn sustainable tactics being implemented throughout the country and create fun, inspirational, and educational how-to style videos and interviews.”
Eco Jaunt also created DVDs that they give to the school and communities they visit to help “plant the seeds of sustainability early”. Their blog is a place where anyone and everyone can go and check out all their videos, interviews, explore, and learn about what Eco Jaunt and others are doing; as well as tell people what they have achieved, accomplished, and want to get done.
And If your not hooked just by what they’re doing, the introduction video’s rap will surely do the trick. To learn more about Eco Jaunt, visit http://ecojaunt.blogspot.com/
Eco Jaunt is going to be visiting the WY Eco Club next Tuesday, the 11th; so stay tuned to see your members’ interviews.
Look at what these people are doing.
