Mercy Housing Lakefront opens Englewood Apartments
MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT CELEBRATES
GRAND OPENING OF ENGLEWOOD APARTMENTS
New building provides eco-friendly housing for 99 previously homeless Chicagoans
(CHICAGO) – Mercy Housing Lakefront and the City of Chicago today celebrated the grand opening of Englewood Apartments, a 99-unit building that utilizes state-of-the-art design and technology to provide safe, supportive and environmentally-friendly homes for previously homeless citizens of Chicago.
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley presided over the morning ribbon cutting, and was joined by Alderman JoAnn Thompson, Mercy Board Chair John Powell, Mercy President Cindy Holler, Englewood Apartments resident Dan Taylor and a representative from the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA).
Carbon TradeEx America – September 28-29
CHICAGO CLEAN ENERGY ALLIANCE ANNOUNCES CARBON TRADEEX AMERICA:
BRINGING THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETS TOGETHER
Carbon TradeEx America, North America’s largest gathering of business, government and investors pursuing market solutions to Greenhouse Gas reduction. Carbon TradeEx America serves the national education, networking and business needs of all current and future carbon and environmental market players.
In addition, Chicago Clean Energy Alliance will co-host “A Night at The Field Museum”, a networking event for Chicago-area professionals working in clean and renewable energy. Presented by Baker & McKenzie for Carbon TradeEx 2010.
Keynote speakers include:
- Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality
- Sam Napolitano, Director, Clean Air Markets Division of the EPA
Carbon TradeEx America features more than 100 industry experts (view list here). Event attendees and presenters include corporations, niche energy firms, venture capitalists, government, NGO directors, traders, and other experts involved with wind, solar, geothermal, biofuels, CCS, clean coal, emissions trading, climate change and electric vehicles.
Carbon TradeEx America
Tuesday, September 28 and Wednesday, September 29
8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
McCormick Place
2301 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago
“A Night at The Field Museum”
Tuesday, September 28
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Chicago Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Dr
Chicago
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Yes We Cone!
This week we did a little bit of work for the Chicago Luxury Ice Cream Festival. It sounds like a lot of fun, particularly if you’re staying local this holiday weekend. Here’s the press release, with more information to be found at www.chicagoicecreamfestival.com.
CHICAGO HAS A BRAND NEW ICE CREAM FESTIVAL
The Chicago Luxury Ice Cream Festival pays homage to the micro-creamery, pastry chefs, chocolatiers and artisan suppliers. No bowl is left unturned, as the Festival offers something for every palate - whether you’re an ice cream purist, the head chef of your household, or just a lover of good food.
This is more than an ice cream social: This is ice cream gone chic! More than 15 tasting stations of amazing small-batch artisan ice cream & gelato, plus savory stations with beer & wine tastings.
Events include live demonstrations, workshops and the Great Chicago Brain Freeze – a delicious flavor competition where guests taste the results and vote for the winners. In addition, Eli’s Cheesecake will create and showcase their first-ever ice cream.
WHEN: Peggy Notebeart Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon Drive, Chicago
WHAT: The Chicago Luxury Ice Cream Festival
WHEN: Friday, September 4, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.
WHERE: Peggy Notebeart Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon Drive, Chicago
COST: $25 per ticket – at the door or online at chicagoicrecreamfestival.com
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Chicago’s best restaurants going “Guaranteed Green”
MEDIA ADVISORY
August 25, 2009
CHICAGO’S FINEST RESTAURANTS TO BECOME “GUARANTEED GREEN”
Rick Bayless, Paul Kahan, Ina Pinkney, other chef/owners lead the way to create eco-friendly dining experience
The Green Chicago Restaurant Co-op will launch Guaranteed Green, a new program that helps Chicago-area diners identify and support local restaurants that take significant steps toward protecting the environment.
Guaranteed Green gives restaurateurs a clear pathway to become a truly green establishment. And it gives customers an easy way to identify – and reward – those restaurants that have committed to environmental sustainability.
WHAT: Press conference to announce Guaranteed Green, an easy way for diners to know that their favorite restaurants are truly eco-friendly.
WHO: Dan Rosenthal, co-founder, Green Chicago Restaurant Co-op; Ina Pinkney, co-founder, Green Chicago Restaurant Co-op; Rick Bayless, chef/owner, Frontera Grill/Topolobampo; Helen Cameron, owner, Uncommon Ground. Other Chicago chefs/owners scheduled to attend.
WHEN: Wednesday, August 26, 9:30 a.m.
WHERE: Ina’s – 1235 West Randolph Street, Chicago
MORE: The Green Chicago Restaurant Co-op (www.buygreenchicago.org) is committed to providing tools, services and access to products to ensure sustainable restaurants and food-service businesses in the Chicago area.
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Our time with Biden
OK, so you may have noticed that there is a “VP Joe Biden visits Chicago” story in our Clients in the News section. To be perfectly honest, he really isn’t a client of ours (though we’d be happy to help out if he needs it), but Josh and I did help out on the advance team for the event at Serious Materials (formerly Republic Windows and Doors).
You’d be quite amazed at the amount of production that goes into an event like this. Lots of moving parts, dozens of people involved, seemingly endless planning meetings and revisions to plans. There’s a reason why these events are (almost) flawless in execution.
We hope to get some pictures up on our site. In the mean time, CLTV has some raw video of the event. Click thru to view.
Chicago Media Future Conference set for June
There was a lot of anticipation for the Chicago Journalism Town Hall, which took place earlier this year. After a rash of layoffs and financial turmoil in newsrooms across the city, many journalists were chomping at the bit to talk about ways to fix the news business. While well intentioned, the discussions at the Town Hall quickly digressed into venting, finger pointing at various websites, and debates about imagined business models that will save the day. Producing little direction, it was most notable for highlighting a clear generational divide. (You can listen to audio from the CJTH at WBEZ’s website.)
A few of those in attendance that day have decided to keep the conversation going by organizing the Chicago Media Future Conference, scheduled for June 13 at Columbia College. The conference plans to address two main questions: 1. How do people consume the news and what do they do with it? 2. How do you make money selling the news and who is willing to pay for it?
I strongly suggest the conference focus on the first question before getting anywhere near the second. Understanding how media habits are changing – and how news operations can adapt – should be a top priority for all media managers. Before you can talk about how to make money, you have to know how people are consuming your product. In all the debates going on, I have heard very little acknowledgement from journalists that news consumers feel let down by the media. A Zogby poll from 2008 indicated that 67% of Americans view traditional journalism as “out of touch”. Google isn’t killing journalism, but Google has changed the way people find, consume, and share the news – and do so in ways that circumvent the old revenue models.
The good news is that in the same Zogby poll, 70% of respondents felt that journalism is important to the quality of life in their communities. Professional journalism is still wanted and needed – but we have to start saying out loud that news organizations are not providing their work in ways that meet the needs and habits of their audience. And by not adapting to this reality, the news industry is losing credibility, relevance, and revenue. News orgs need to figure out the nature of their product and its value to the consumer before setting their sites on making money. Business models are not solutions for what ails journalism right now.
For more information on the thinking behind the Chicago Media Future Conference, check out blog posts by organizers Scott Smith and Mike Fourcher.
Chicago Reader launches redesign
The Chicago Reader has rolled out a new design for its Web site. For the user, there’s an improved navigation system up top & a new emphasis on the blogs that have grown to be an important part of the Reader’s offerings. Above the fold, you get this week’s cover story, the latest blog posts, today’s critics picks, and a list of recommended articles from around the web. On his Chicagoland blog, web editor Whet Moser mentions the redesign is a work in progress, with a number of pages and sections still to be ported over to the new layout. I see it as a big improvement for an organization that was very, very late to embrace the web. There are still a number of financial challenges facing free print publications like the Reader, but moving in this direction will, at the very least, give it a fighting chance.
Daley 2.0
I just found out that Mayor Daley has launched a YouTube page.
Update: This morning the Tribune’s Clout Street blog had more detailed coverage