Chicago - City of the Big Shoulders

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Ordinary citizens, environmental groups, and local government come together. This program showcases stories about inspirational environmental activists in Chicago and their effort to preserve the c...

Ordinary citizens, environmental groups, and local government come together. This program showcases stories about inspirational environmental activists in Chicago and their effort to preserve the communities around them. The program introduces Marian Byrnes, the conscience of the Calamut; Steve Packard and Debra Shore, preservers of a little ecosystem on the prairie; Illinois Teacher of the Year Deb Perryman, who plays real-life sustainability games with her high-school students; Michael and Amelia Howard, who tackle environmental-justice issues in their African-American Fuller Park neighborhood at their Eden Place nature school; and many more influential individuals.

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