Students for Environmental Concerns

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(Upcoming) Events:

-Global Activism Expo 2010, Chicago: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Event_Detail.aspx?eventID=1528

-Spring Course at UIUC: http://courses.illinois.edu/cis/2010/spring/schedule/UP/494.html?skinId=2169

-Local (McHenry County) Volunteering: http://volunteermchenrycounty.org/

-Green drinks, international networking movement to get people talking...monthly meetings, all over the place.

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Internationally:

-Blog: worldchanging.org, also available as a book

-Lectures: TED

-News: Current News' Green Channel

-Good magazine (good.is), has lots of well-designed graphics on world issues

-World Policy Journal - different perspectives on international development issues

-News: http://worldfocus.org/

-Business Ethics Network: http://businessethicsnetwork.org/article.php?list=type&type=138

-DIG- Development In Gardening: http://www.developmentingardening.org/DIG/HOME.html

-AIDG- Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group: http://www.aidg.org/

    talked about in this TED lecture: http://www.ted.com/talks/cat_laine_engineering_a_better_life_for_all.html

- echoing green fellows do some pretty interesting stuff - and they are really just people like us http://www.echoinggreen.org/

- taking it global http://www.tigweb.org/

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US:

-Blog: Social Edge

-Blog: change.org

-Lectures - Academic Earth: http://academicearth.org/

-Blacks in Green (Chicago): http://www.blacksingreen.org/

-Center for Neighborhood Technologies (Chicago): http://www.cnt.org/

-good search for local and international jobs/volunteering with a purpose: idealist.org

-looks expensive but could be a good experience: http://mycge.org/

-Student Conservation Association: http://www.thesca.org/

-Sustainable Business "Green Dream Jobs": http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/greendreamjobs.display/id/3048509

-Chicago Center for Green Tech: http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalEntityHomeAction.do?entityName=Chicago+Center+for+Green+Technology&entityNameEnumValue=161

-Green Parent Chicago: http://www.greenparentchicago.com/

-Mother Earth News: http://www.motherearthnews.com/

-NYTimes Sustainable Living section

-Homeless Garden Project, Santa Cruz CA http://www.homelessgardenproject.org/

-Online Green Shopping - http://www.pristineplanet.com/default.asp

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Colleges/Universities/Learning:

-Assoc for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education: http://www.aashe.org/

-Goucher College, master of arts in cultural sustainability

-Graduate programs in (international) SD: http://heller.brandeis.edu/academic/sid/, http://www.aashe.org/resources/grad_Sustainable_Development.php

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Contemporary Role Models:

-William McDonough, Cradle to Cradle

-Majora Carter, Sustainable South Bronx (ssbx.org)

-Bill McKibben, author of a lot of stuff

-Ken Salo (UIUC prof)/ Faranak Miraftab (Salo's wife) - both in Urban Planning, Env'tal Justice, he's a lawyer, too.

-Al Gore (j/k)

-Wangari Mathai, Greenbelt Mvt, Nobel Prize winner

-Michael Pollan, Omnivore's Dilemma and Botany of Desire

-great lecture: http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story.html

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People to Look Into / Keep an eye or two on:

-Daniel Goleman's new book Ecological Intelligence

-Eco-feminists

-Notable environmentalists list on Wikipedia

-No Impact Man (blog)

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Historical Role Models:

-HD Thoreau

-RW Emerson

-John Muir

-Ansel Adams

-Lois Gibbs (Wikipedia)

-Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (Important community organizer, radical)

-Aldo Leopold, Land Ethic, Sand County Almanac

-Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

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Books:

- Amartya Sen - "Development as Freedom"

- Steven Lukes - "Power"

- "Women: The Last Colony"

- Iris Young - "Politics of Injustices"

- "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"

- "Hot, Flat and Crowded" by Thomas Freidman

- "Two Billion Cars"

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Straight Up Inspiration:

-Ansel Adams' Photos (here's a random gallery)

-Permaculture design principles (1)

-Movies: Ferngully, Baraka

-50 simple things to do if you don't know where to start

-DIY/Reuse: (1: http://www.readymade.com/)

-http://6.media.tumblr.com/CWriXY2b2l3umdhqZrrObRCpo1_400.png

-Good list of 10 things to do, with nice pictures