What does the Environmental Concerns Organization at DePaul University do?
ECO is an active service group. We meet weekly to talk about environmental issues on a local and national scale, ranging from urban agriculture to climate change. We also volunteer with LVEJO. This year we helped install weatherization kits and volunteered to create art projects, decorations and props for LVEJO’s Clean Power Campaign. How did the idea for the map of toxic sites come about? Who else was involved in creating it? In 2003, I volunteered with LVEJO’s community mapping project, in which I took inventory of the assets and toxins in the community. As a result, we created two hard-copy maps that identify all the schools within one- and two-mile radii of the Crawford and Fisk coal power plants. In 2007, I participated in Youth Lab, a youth media program through Open Youth Networks, where I learned to use media as an organizing tool. Mindy Faber, director of Open Youth Networks, introduced participants to Google Maps. From that experience, I thought about creating a multi-media m
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