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Chicago Community Climate Action Toolkit

In the Chicago Community Climate Action Toolkit project, The Field Museum worked with partners in four Chicago neighborhoods to develop and implement community–led climate action projects. Each project builds on research conducted by Museum anthropologists, which identified local strengths and concerns that can serve as springboards for engaging communities in the region’s two climate action plans.

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Whether you want to learn about climate change, or are ready to start a community climate action project, you'll find what you need here.

Tools for Learning

Downloadable PDFs:
Climate Action Plan for Nature: Community Action Strategies
Climate Change in the Windy City and the World
Guide to a Climate Friendly Diet
The Amazing Adventures of
Chicago's Climate Action Heroes

Climate Change Videos:
Chicago Region Climate Action Video
Chicago Climate Action Video

Food Videos:
Food Culture
Telling Our Stories: Creating Green Communities
Vegan Soul

Video Discussion Guides:
Climate Action Videos Discussion Guide
Climate Change and Food Discussion Guide

Tools for Creating Your Own Climate Action Project

Identify Local Strengths and Concerns:
Visual Collages of Climate-Friendly Practices
Mapping Green Assets
Collecting Climate Action
Developing a Project Idea:
Workshop Facilitator's Guide
Budgets and Funding

Learn About Our Community Projects

GENERAL TOOLS:
Native Plant List
Big Kid Play—A Guide to Unstructured Play
from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum

Energy Efficient House Diagram
Video: Kids, Nature, and Play


SOUTH CHICAGO
Approach Diagram
Video Documentary

Community Tools
Exhibit Map (English)
Exhibit Map (Spanish)
South Chicago Project Website
Overview: South Chicago Retrofit Project
Video: Southeast Green Gallery

Community Partners
The Zone (Southeast United Methodist Youth& Community Center)
g2g Church (Generation to Generation Church)
South Chicago Art Center
Claretian Associates
South Chicago Retrofit Project
Spanish Coalition for Housing


FOREST GLEN
Approach Diagram
Video Documentary

Community Tools
Forest Glen Newspaper Ad
Forest Glen Signs
Straw Bale Gardening
Video: Forest Glen Boy Scout Rain Barrel Installation
Video: Girl Scout Annie Aguirre in Hope Garden

Community Partners
Boy Scout Troop 626
Girl Scout Troop 20804
Sauganash Chamber of Commerce
Sauganash Community Association

PILSEN
Approach Diagram
Video Documentary

Community Tools
Pilsen Garden Signs
Pilsen Contaminated Soil Guide
Pilsen Garden Facebook Page

Community Partners
Casa Michoacán
P.E.R.R.O. (Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization)
El Hogar del Niño


BRONZEVILLE
Approach Diagram
Video Documentary

Community Tools
Bronzeville Youth Cultivator Curriculum
Bronzeville Green Economy Tour Itinerary
Bronzeville Public Art/Public Spaces Tour Itinerary
Bronzeville Green Team Facebook Page
Video: Vegan Soul
Video: Nature and Heritage at Eden Place Nature Center
Video: Revitalizing Bronzeville

Community Partners
Bronzeville Alliance Green Team
Center for New Horizons
Eden Place Nature Center
Urban Juncture
Majani Catering
Bronzeville Community Garden