Via the Chicago Architecture Foundation

Earth Week 2009 includes six new Chicago Architecture Foundation programs focused on green solutions to every day life. All the programs are free.   

To RSVP or learn more, visit www.architecture.org.

April 18: Overview of Green Home Remodeling Guides at Greenmaker Building Supply
9:30am to –11:30am, 2500 N. Pulaski Road, Chicago.
Co-sponsored by Columbia College’s Critical Encounters: Human|Nature initiative

April 20:  From the Microscope to the Macro-scope: Applying Biomimicry in the Built Environment
6–:00pm to 7:30pm, Columbia College Film Row Cinema, 1104 S Wabash Avenue, 8th floor

April 21: Achieving LEED Platinum at the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation of Evanston
12:15pm to –1pm,  Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan Avenue.

April 22: Sailing Spaceship Earth: Buckminster Fuller’s Environmentalism
12:15–pm to 1pm, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan Avenue

April 23: Green Office Challenge: Greening Your Office: Tips on How to Make Your Workplace Eco-friendly
12:15–pm to 1:15pm, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan Avenue
In partnership with the City of Chicago Department of the Environment

April 24:  BIG: Blacks in Green
12:15–pm to 1:15pm, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan Avenue       

The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing public interest and education in architecture and design. The Chicago Architecture Foundation pursues this mission through architecture tours, exhibitions, panel discussions, and youth and adult education programs. Home to a permanent exhibition: CHICAGO YOU ARE HERE, the Chicago Architecture Foundation is located at 224 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60604. For further information visit www.architecture.org or call 312.922.3432.