Category Archives: News
Climate Change, Global Warming, Environmental Issues
- Monday, February 18, 2013 Get Involved Today! Ride Register for our 5th Annual Ride to Recharge. Form a school team, workplace team, or friends and family team, and ride in our bike-a-thon to raise funds to support environmental education in Chicago area schools!...
- Monday, January 28, 2013 Student Showcase - Smyser Aeroponic Garden One of the most interesting aspects of the Soirée is getting a chance to see what students from partner schools are doing with grant funding from Climate Cycle. At Smyser Elementary, teacher Heidi O’Toole and...
- Wednesday, January 16, 2013 Curie Solar Backpacks at Student Showcase One of the highlights of our Soirée will be the Student Showcase (formerly known as Project Recharge), where representatives from eight of our partner schools will be on hand exhibiting projects on the themes Clean, Energy, and Movement....
- Monday, January 14, 2013 NPR’s Jerome McDonnell to Emcee our Soirée We are excited to announce that Jerome McDonnell, host of WBEZ’s Worldview, will emcee our 4th Annual Climate Cycle Soirée on Saturday, February 23, 2013! Each weekday on WBEZ ’s Worldview, Jerome provides global affairs...
- Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2013 Soirée Tickets On Sale Now ...
- Tuesday, December 11, 2012 Capital One Donates to Road Scholars, Climate Cycle’s Newest Bike Ride We are grateful to announce that this past Thursday, December 6th, ING Direct and Capital One joined together to donate $10,000 to Climate Cycle. Longtime Climate Cycle supporters will recall that Chicago’s ING Direct Cafe...
- Monday, November 19, 2012 Pedal Power at Curie’s Fall Festival by Erin Potter, Schools Programming Coordinator Curie High School hosted their first ever Fall Festival on Friday, November 16th, and I headed out to Archer Heights to represent Climate Cycle and support the awesome work of...
- Tuesday, November 13, 2012 Save the Date for our next Soirée - Feb. 23, 2013 We are excited to announce that we’ve set a date for Climate Cycle’s annual Soirée! Our next Soirée will be held on Saturday, February 23, 2013, at the Greenhouse Loft, housed inside the Green Exchange, at...
- Monday, November 12, 2012 Joey Raps it Up at Locke Elementary We’re really excited to enter into a new partnership with Locke Elementary School, located on the Northwest Side, in the Montclare neighborhood. Last Friday, Executive Director Joey Feinstein spiced up the normal all-school assembly, by rapping...
- Monday, October 29, 2012 Farewell to Cassie Freeman, Hello to Erin Potter Thank you to the amazing Cassie Freeman, the outgoing Director of Schools Programming. Cassie is leaving Climate Cycle to focus her energies toward completing her PhD, in Comparative Human Development, at the University of Chicago. In...