May 19, 2022
A renewable gas project in Auburn Gresham will include a anaerobic food digester that will use food waste to produce renewable natural gas.
Read moreMarch 16, 2022
Chicago bars and restaurants received several high-profile nominations in the annual James Beard Foundation Awards announced Wednesday.
Read moreJune 21, 2021
The group is reexamining food distribution through a racial equity lens while fighting for long-term systemic change.
Read moreMay 5, 2021
Students from Simeon High School are helping to plan what’s “growing” along 83rd Street and Wallace in Chicago, where a new renewable energy and urban farming campus is being built.
Read moreJanuary 12, 2021
The coffee giant’s Community Resilience Fund will aid small businesses and community projects that promote racial equity and “environmental resilience.”
Read moreNovember 27, 2020
The agricultural industry continues to invest in anaerobic digestion technologies to meet sustainability goals and produce homemade energy.
Read moreOctober 7, 2020
“This has been some week for my Auburn Gresham community,” said Carlos Nelson, CEO of the Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation. “The Auburn Gresham skies will be lit up with cranes and earthmovers as three large capital projects — all within a three-and-a-half block radius — will be under construction.”
Read moreOctober 6, 2020
A shuttered 1920s terra cotta building and a vacant former Chicago police impound lot will be transformed into neighborhood hubs of healthy living, health care, nutrition, urban farming, a recycling enterprise and more under a resident-driven development plan for the Auburn Gresham community.
Read moreOctober 2, 2020
From its eight farms in Chicago, the organization serves underresourced communities on the south and west sides.
Read moreAugust 24, 2020
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) recently joined Green Era and members of the Auburn Gresham community to announce a $3 million state investment that will help bring a new urban farming campus to Chicago's south side. The $32 million project will transform a vacant brownfield parcel into a new Green Era Urban Farming Campus that will provide access to fresh food, renewable energy and resilient growth for a community that has historically suffered from disinvestment and a lack of employment opportunities.
Read moreAugust 20, 2020
“Communities that have suffered from environmental justice issues don’t have a lot of trust for industry coming in and providing solutions because they’ve been burned so many times. One of the starting points here is to help everyone — from community members to leaders — understand the benefits that biogas can provide... The opportunity is incredible but education needs to come first.”
Read moreAugust 20, 2020
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker recently joined Chicago-based Green Era to announce a $3 million state investment that will help bring a new urban farming campus to Chicago's South Side.
Read moreAugust 7, 2020
“We are headed in a new era — which is why we are called ‘Green Era’ — where we have to consider the environment and it can no longer be an afterthought,” Allen said. “As industry shifts in response to climate change and as we become more [climate] resilient, we want to make sure the South Side is fully able to take advantage of that new economy.”
Read moreAugust 7, 2020
“This is a project that incorporates renewable energy, food production, availability of healthy foods, and climate-smart job training. It’s exactly the kind of 21st century vision that deserves our investment,” said Pritzker.
Read moreAugust 6, 2020
“Those of us who have been in this community have worked really hard and maintained hope that transformation … was on the horizon,” said Carlos Nelson, CEO of the development corporation. “This infusion of $10 million really catalyzes and increases our hope.”
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