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Green ideas ready to bloom – Chicago Shines With Sustainable Design

We’re familiar by now with Mayor Daley’s often-repeated call for Chicago to become the "greenest city in America," but is it really happening? The Windy City remains far behind many others in recycling, and while local architects and builders are increasingly using energy-efficient, eco-friendly materials and technologies, only a handful of large-scale "sustainable" projects have been completed.

That’s about to change. For Exhibit A, see "Sustainable Architecture in Chicago: Works in Progress," an exhibit of plans and renderings for seven ecologically progressive projects by Chicago firms, opening Saturday at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

The show — conceived as a companion to the larger exhibit "Massive Change: The Future of Global Design," opening Sept. 16 at the museum — proves that Chicago’s "green" idealism and rhetoric are beginning to translate into concrete results.

BY KEVIN NANCE Art and Architecture Critic

Full Story: http://www.suntimes.com/output/nance/cst-ftr-sustain07.html

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