- Feb 4, 2022
Indoor Victory Garden Report: 2021
Back before we moved into the firehouse, we had begun experimenting with folks other than ourselves growing in our indoor aquaponic farm....
- Dec 11, 2021
Anaerobic Digestion at Plant Chicago: Part 1
Following a collaboration with Loyola University Chicago (LUC) engineering students - Anna Zachary, Valentine Geze, and Brooke McDonald -...
- May 11, 2021
Waste Audits: Do You Know What You're Throwing Out?
Coming into the year 2020, Plant Chicago set a goal of diverting from the landfill 90% of the ‘waste’ generated across its programs. This...
- Oct 6, 2020
Measuring Local Economic Impact
How to measure impact? That was the challenge I faced while developing Plant Chicago’s inaugural impact report for its Circular Economy...
- Sep 24, 2020
Using worms and fungi to compost packaging
Oyster mushroom fragment in hydrated packaging material. Compostable food packaging – those beige colored forks and spoons, or clamshells...
- Sep 17, 2020
Waste System Comparison: US & India
Blog Post by Rahul Kulkarni, Plant Chicago Waste Diversion Project Intern – Summer 2020 A Quick Note This analysis is purely based on my...
- Sep 16, 2020
Think Global, Begin Local – Support Circular Businesses
Blog Post by Ylise Minor, Plant Chicago Circular Packaging Project Intern – Summer 2020 The modern world is one of hasty economic growth...
- Apr 30, 2020
Infrastructuring the Circular Economy
Circular Economy Advisory Committee members Weslynne Ashton (IIT Stuart School of Business) and Andre Nogueira (Harvard T.H. Chan School...
- Aug 8, 2019
Exploring Mycorrhizal Fungi
This summer, two of Plant Chicago’s interns are working on a project that can potentially benefit all farmers and gardeners in Chicago,...