Chicago

5 Tips for making your music festivals eco-friendly this summer

24 June 17

| Zero-Waste Partying | Thousands of people of all ages attend music and experiential festivals every year, here in the U.S. and internationally. The music and other Instagram-worthy moments can be thrilling, but what about all the waste left behind? So-called zero waste events are becoming more common, and some festivals have succeeded in splicing […]

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Check into Virgin Hotels, get a Tesla ride

13 February 15

| Green Travel News | Starting today, Virgin Hotels is shuttling its guests around Chicago in a top-of-the-line, red Tesla Model S, the premium electric vehicle that is also the quickest-accelerating four-door vehicle— 0-60 in just 3.2 seconds—ever built. Doug Carrillo, Virgin Hotels vice president of sales & marketing, said, “Tesla is the hottest electric car on the road […]

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Chicago claims world’s greenest restaurant

15 January 13

Uncommon Ground, in Chicago, has won the title of world’s greenest restaurant—again. The honor is bestowed by the Green Restaurant Association, which certifies eco-friendly restaurants in the U.S. and Canada

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Chicago’s Ivy Hotel: chic green luxury, and now open

8 June 12

Barely more then a block from Michigan Avenue in Chicago’s artsy Near North neighborhood, the Ivy Hotel was once an office building. Now it’s the city’s newest boutique hotel, and eco-chic too

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Chicago’s muy famoso chef goes green

8 September 10

| Gold Certified Green | You may have seen him on TV. Or bought his prepared foods at your local grocery. Or own his cookbooks. You may even have scored his James Beard Award-winning cooking—regional Mexican cuisine so authentic and so good you won’t easily find its equal even in Mexico, let alone by a gringo who grew up […]

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