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Local Help For Going Green Chicago
Center for Green Technology
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Sarah Moloney
Project Coordinator
Department of Environment
Natural Resources & Water Quality
Chicago Center for Green Technology
445 North Sacramento Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60612
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/
webportal/portalEntity HomeAction.do?entityName=Chicago+
Center+for+Green+Technology&entityNameEnumValue=161 |
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Information clearinghouse for the public to learn about green technology. |
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A place to come to learn all about different kinds of green technology. |
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For example how to get an energy audit. |
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Investigates your goals and determines how to direct your research. |
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Partners with other organizations and individuals to hook them up. |
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Run about 150 classes a year on energy topics and most are FREE or very low-cost. |
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Most classes cover how to integrate green technology in your work, home, business, building, etc. |
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Most classes cover how to integrate green technology in your work, home, business, building, etc. |
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Collect rain water from roof to use to water your plants. |
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Help with water run off and basement wetting. |
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Free compact florescent light bulbs. |
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Free Building Tours where you can see green technology at work. |
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A library with free building material samples, different kinds of flooring material, 1,200 solar panels to look at, a green roof, geothermal technology to keep the building cool. |
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Samples of cork flooring. Cork trees regenerate the cork. |
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See a complete solar powered home, Chicago is a great place for solar because it does not have to be warm. |
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In Chicago you can hook your solar panels into the energy grid and sell your extra energy to the utility company. |
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Chicago has incentive programs to invest in energy conservation efficiency. |
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Information is not that easy to find and that is why they are there to help people. |
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