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More than a Recycling Film, Waste Land is About Hope.  See reviews of the Sundance-winning, Oscar-nominated Waste Land. Find out where it's screening, rent it on Netflix, and find out what YOU can do to step up your recycling IQ and efforts.

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  View The Village Greener's recent blog entries on green building, kids & green, why building community is green, and more.
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Green Eating

It's (usually?!?) a long, cold Winter in Chicago, which typically means anyone eating local in these parts is full-up on root vegetables by now (or enjoying a preserved bounty from the backyard harvests of seasons past). But -- it's just about seed-starting time again: great news for foodies and green eating fans. The Chicago Center for Green Technology offers seminars in its Winter/Spring catalog that just might help you get a jump on planning your edible garden this year, and River Forest Library hosts a Winter Gardening workshop at the end of February. Don't wait a moment longer to learn about sustainable eating; we'll give you the skinny on greener food, CSA's (community supported agriculture), and local vs. organic eating.

Is the Earth Full?

Environmental entrepreneur and author Paul Gilding claims climate change has put us on the verge of a major global disruption that will bring massive behavioral and system shifts. "We either allow collapse to overtake us or develop a new sustainable economic model. We will choose the latter. We may be slow, but we’re not stupid.”

Welcome to The Village Greener!

Our local, online sustainable-living communities aim to address the needs of a greener Chicago -- neighborhood by neighborhood , zip code by zip code. We're building on the premise that community and sustainability are inextricably intertwined, and that the core of green living is very often local.

We invite you to click around to start finding your greener life, and to tell us what you think! This is an early beta version of our site, so you will see some errors and more data being added each day. Please e-mail ana@thevillagegreener.com if you find errors or have enhancement suggestions. Thanks!

You can read more about The Village Greener's mission here.