John - I'd love a foraging outing. Sorry for a late response. We briefly talked about it but no one of us felt qualified enough to organize it. However, let's keep it on our radar and do it one day! If you have any suggestions please keep Kimberly (our "proposed events" keeper) or me posted.

Anish - I love your idea too and it's too bad that there is not enough time to organize a meetup for it. Feel free to post a separate message thread on the message board encouraging people to join you and hopefully you will have a nice company of people to screen the films together. You can also try to post it on CIDF (http://www.meetup.com...) message board too.

Free Sustainable and Holistic Class this Monday, October 25.


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We should do a movie screening: http://www.revengeoft...

Thanks, Shyaam. Please let me know if there is a screening in Chicago area or if you would like to organize it.

I'm new to meetup so please let me know if there was a 'like' or voting link I missed. I like the moviescreening idea for revenge of the elctric car and would go to that. I think the mushroom idea sounds cool, just not my bag.

Sabi, there are no voting buttons on the message board. Your comments and preferences however, are welcome, we like discussions.

Sunday, October 23, 2011, 3:00
Oak Valley, Lockport Branch Library
121 E. 8th St
Lockport, IL 60441

Hosted by Citizens Against Ruining the Environment
Presented by Appalachian Voices

Appalachian Treasures, a free multi-media presentation about a critical social & environmental justice issue - mountaintop removal coal mining (MRT) in the mountains of Central Appalachia. Meet the people who are fighting to protect their homes, their families, and the mountains themselves from the irreversible destruction caused by MTR.


An Appalachian coalfield resident will speak about daily life in the shadow of MRT mines, where residents are forced to contend with appalling conditions, including destruction of water supplies, continual dynamite blasting the damages homes & wells & creates choking dust, and the fear of fatal catastrophic floods with every rainfall.

Come & learn about mountaintop removal coal mining & how you can help stop the destruction of our nation's oldest mountains and the people and culture of Appalachia.

Admission is free. Please contact Ellen. 815.834.1611

I have noticed that since I joined this group, most of the meetups available have been in the suburbs. I would love to see more meetups that are in the city.

If you would like to see a partially completed, and very green, 3 flat renovation - this is the show:
Marcus de la Fleur will be conducting an open house this Saturday 10/22 from10-3. This is a sustainable and very green rehab that we are General Contracting. However, Marcus the owner is doing most of the renovation himself, and running the project. There will be a food truck for some light fare available. here ar his details:

You may follow the blog
(http://delafleur.com/...)
, you may have visited our project before, or you just know about our sustainable rehab at 3141 W. 15th Street

You now have the opportunity to visit (in some cases again): We'll open our doors on Saturday 10/22 from 10:00 am till 3:00 pm and we would love for you to stop by and take a quick tour.

The garden unit is finished while all walls on the first floor are still open. Before we begin with the insulation installation on the first floor, we'd like to give those of you who are interested in the construction progress the opportunity to take a closer look.

Highlights are

the efficient heating and domestic hot water system
ventilation system
heat recovery system
insulation preparations
material reuse

Address:
3141 W. 15th Street
Chicago, IL 60623
Marcus - (312) 618-6681
Cathy - (773) 368-9860

This is the second time we'll open the doors for a formal tour. We very much look forward seeing you (and in some cases, meeting you)!

Many thanks,
Marcus and Cathy

Marcus/Cathy and Ellen -

I am glad shared with everyone the info about your events. I am not sure if we can consider it as a meetup suggestion since the events are just a few days ahead and we usually plan our meetups at least 2-3 weeks in advance. The announcements like yours are very welcome but it might be more appropriate to post them under it's own topic instead of IDEAS FOR OUR NEW MEETUPS. But thank you for sharing this info anyway.

Jacki -

Thank you very much for your suggestion to focus on the city events as much as suburban meetups. We will definitely try to do it. On the meantime if you have any specific suggestions for our upcoming meetups please consider sharing them (either by posting it here or email them to me directly). And definitely let me know if you might be interested to help organizing any events, . Thank you again.

- Vadim