Beyond Today community members living in and near Lincoln Square, North Center, and Ravenswood have come to realize that there are many many environmentalists living here. This creates a wonderful opportunity for work to become the most environmental neighborhood in Chicago.

If you are one of those people who are concerned about such things as global warming, recycling, composting, and the many many other things environmentalists care about, please consider joining our environmental neighborhood project.

1. We will organize events to enable residents for develop the green neighborhood plan. Already, five small meetings where 10-15 neighbors brainstorm over a broad range of environmental topics and form that into a list of ideas for the neighborhood

2. We will maintain a list of ideas for environmental projects and break them down into tasks and resources needed.

3. We will invite community members to volunteer and to consider taking on some leadership for a project.

4. We will work to find the resources we need.

5. We will document the special things that environmentalists do. We will place these videos and photographs on our website in order to elevate the image of environmentalism and show that it is actually easy and fun.

6. We will create a website and newsletter to publicize a variety of environmental choices, many of which will actually save you considerable money.

7. We will organize workshops to help people to learn about the things they want to know more about, like composting, organic pest control, and greener cleaning products.

8. We will hold several events next summer to showcase our Environmental Neighborhood. The main event will be a Green House walk, which will highlight homes featuring the latest environmental technology and ways of life.