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Volunteer/ Training Opportunity: Water Cistern

EWB Comm 09-10 — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:55:28 +0000

Green Earth Institute is looking for volunteers to help assemble an underground 25,000 gallon cistern on their property at McDonald Farm in Naperville. This is part of a rainwater harvesting and irrigation system for the farm. The cistern will be assembled using the Aquabox technology (http://www.rainxchange.com/products/aquablox.php ).

Date: April 27, 2010, weather permitting

Contact: RSVP to Steve Tivald 630-664-5681 or stiwald@greenearthinstitute.org

7th Annual Green Earth Fair

EWB Comm 09-10 — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:51:48 +0000

The 7th Annual Green Earth Fair will take place Sunday Afternoon, May 2, 2010 from 12:30 – 5 PM at the McDonald Farm in Naperville, Illinois. The Fair is a family event with entertainment for children and adults, as well as several informative presentations on converting biomass to energy, beekeeping, rainwater harvesting, the smart grid, organic lawn care, organic farming and others. In the past there was participation from local renewable energy contractors, including some of our own EWB-USA CPC members.

Requested Donation: $5 donation

Website: http://www.greenearthinstitute.org/fair/index.html.

EWB at the Global Activism Forum 2010

EWB Comm 09-10 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:49:56 +0000

Join the EWB-USA Chicago Chapter at WBEZ’s Global Activism Forum.

We will be speaking from 2:30 – 3:15 PM and have a booth from Noon to 6 PM.

Can you take a shift at the booth? Please let Marcella know at communications@ewb-chicago.org

Date: Saturday, April 17, 2010 @ NOON – 6:00 p.m

Location: UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago

Transportation: CTA Halsted bus (#8) bus to Roosevelt Road or limited $8 parking in Lot 5 ( 1135 W. Morgan)

Hosted by Worldview’s Jerome McDonnell, Chicago Public Radio is thrilled to again present this remarkable celebration – complete with food, music and over 100 Chicago-area Global Activists, all featured guests of Worldview’s Global Activism Series. On the air for seven years now, the Series continues to be inspirational, and bringing everyone together for this Expo has quickly become an annual event.

FREE – so bring your classes, your children, your neighbors, your friends and family.

More info at http://chicagopublicradio.org/Event_Detail.aspx?eventID=1528

EWB at the Chicago Building Congress Tradeshow

EWB Comm 09-10 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:21:44 +0000

Visit the EWB-USA Chicagoland Chapter at the Chicago Building Congress Annual Table Top Tradeshow. Last year, over 250 industry professionals attended. Visit the CBC website or see the attached flyer for more information.

Date: April 21, 2010, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM

Location: Union League Club, 66 W. Jackson, Chicago

Canchias Bridge Project Fundraiser

EWB Comm 09-10 — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:09:19 +0000

Come one, come all to the Canchias Bridge Project Fundraiser, Thursday, March 25th at 6:00 pm at the Sidebar Grill @ 221 N. LaSalle. For more details of this fun social and fundraiser event see the attached flyer.

EWB at the Rotary District 6440 Conference

EWB Comm 09-10 — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:54:15 +0000

The Rotary District 6440 has invited our EWB chapter to be part of their annual conference. This is an exciting opportunity to interact with many of our biggest supporters. Approximately 400 Rotarians from clubs throughout north and west suburban Chicago and northern Illinois will be in attendance. We will have have a booth, speak to Rotarians about our projects, and book speaking engagements.

Please contact Marcella Bondie Keenan at communications@ewb-chicago.org if you are interested in participating

Date: April 29- May 2, 2010

Location: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

Thank you to Rotary District 6440 for this invitation, and thank you to Rotary International for their continued support of our projects.

EWB-USA 2010 Conference

EWB Comm 09-10 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:56:37 +0000

We are thrilled to formally introduce our speakers and sponsors of the EWB-USA 2010 International Conference, March 18-21, 2010 in beautiful Denver, CO. Take a look below to see what we have to offer you this year!

Please note: Regular registration rates are ending midnight February 28, 2010. Check out the discounts you can receive here.

Keynote Speaker

Joseph Grenny: True Power Starts with the Heart

Plenary Speakers

Bryan Willson: Got Impact? Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships for Long-Term Global Change

Karen Luken: Using Waste as a Resource

Panel Presentations

Panel: Challenges of Sustainable Economic Development

Corporate Panel: Embracing Change and Leveraging the Power of New Generations

Green Earth Institute (GEI) – Request for Volunteer Engineers

EWB Comm 09-10 — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:42:32 +0000

The Green Earth Institute (GEI) (www.greenearthinstitute.org) is a non-profit established in 2002 to promote nutritional health and environmental sustainability. GEI is seeking a volunteer with hydraulic engineering expertise to help with water and irrigation issues on its 60-acre farm in Naperville, IL.

GEI is largely financed through the sale of organically-grown crops on its farm in Naperville. In order to support its irrigation requirements, GEI has contracted for the installation of a new water well and is planning for a rainwater harvesting system and a 25,000-gallon water storage cistern to be installed in 2010. Drilling the new well is scheduled for mid-February 2010; weak water volume is expected, so a multiple-source system, drawing frm the well, from rainwater, and from a small creek is under consideration. Additional storage, through building a larger cistern and/or adding an above-ground storage system may be needed. GEI is seeking a volunteer with hydraulic engineering experience to advise the Executive Director on system design and estimating expected pressure and flow rates through the system in order to determine the proper pump configurations for drip and spray irrigation systems and to determine associated irrigation schedules that can be supported by the anticipated water supply. The volunteer would be directly assisting the Green Earth Institute as this is not an EWB program. If you are interested in volunteering or have questions, please contact Ron Niehaus at research@ewb-chicago.org and Steve Tiwald at stiwald@greenearthinstitute.org.

Las Cruces, Peten Fundraiser on Feb 19

EWB Comm 09-10 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:40:42 +0000

EWB-USA Supports Haiti

EWB Comm 09-10 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:20:55 +0000

In light of the recent devastating earthquake in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, the EWB-USA community offers our thoughts and well wishes to the people of Haiti. While EWB-USA does not work in the field of disaster relief, our chapters do partner with the various communities within the country to work on community and infrastructure needs. EWB-USA projects directly support communities and work closely with local partners to design and implement sustainable engineering projects.

If you would like to get involved in supporting Haiti, here are three ways you can make a difference:

If you would like to make a contribution to one of our projects in Haiti, please click here.
If you would like to make a donation that directly affects victims of the earthquake, please visit the Red Cross.
There is an immediate and dire need for French speaking Civil or Structural Engineers and on the ground organizations are in critical need for skilled assistance. If you are an experienced engineer and speak French or Creole please click here for more information.