Recap
Around 30 people came together at 6018North on a beautiful evening in August for an event in EEC's Community Resiliency Campaign: a Chicago Climate Action Plan Neighborhood Workshop.
We brought the new Chicago Climate Action Plan to our community with a presentation from Kyra Woods with the city’s Sustainability team then created a vision for the plan in Edgewater through a facilitation technique called The Braid, a metamodeling adventure, with Adelheid Mers.
Chicago's new climate goals set a course to reduce the city's carbon emissions by 62% by 2040. Anchored in values of economic inclusion and savings, pollution burden reduction, and equitable access to critical infrastructure and community health and resilience, the 2022 CAP prioritizes delivering meaningful community benefits and system improvements as the City continues to lead on climate.
Attendees brought their ideas and reflections on how climate change affects you and the community in Edgewater. We ate and drank with refreshments from Uncommon Ground, Pearl's Southern Comfort, and Axum Ethiopian.
This event was done with support from the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce and SSA #26.
Results
Our Pillars
Strengthen our communities (Edgewater + friends/partners)
Equitable development of clean energy
Circular economies to create jobs & reduce waste
Increase public utilities & energy effectiveness
Community Identity
Our Strategies
Increase renewable energy use
Engage Private Industry
"Adopt a home," be a connector for clean energy companies to the community
2023 Edgewater Energy Survey
Use 2022/2003 city indexes/metrics
Use city date to prioritize our projects & efforts
Connect producers of waste with users
Focus on food waste
Incentives for construction waste
Use CARE air monitor data
Trends in traffic patterns
Existing efforts in walkability, working alongside existing plans.
Our Actions
Educate and advocate
Education to fill gaps in organic waste collection / residential waste diversion
Having play book of rights
renter/commuter
owner/car owner
Reduce cronyism to get plans through
Education and cooperative forums to have public inclusion to strengthen our community and enable projects
ID buildings for best renewables
Red Line promotion event upon reopen
E.V. Infrastructure with the increase of new Edgewater residents -T.O.D's
"Resource community led climate infrastructure projects"
Use city/CAP resources for green infrastuture + community solar development
We look forward to working with the city on our identified strategies and actions that are directly related to the Climate Action Plan; as well as working on takeaways that we as an organization can take with local neighborhood partners.
Photographer Credit: Natia Ser