Edens Lost and Found: Chicago

Streaming video - 2015

Edens Lost and Found highlights what communities all across the country are doing to revive their ecosystems and, as a result, improve the quality of life of all its citizens. Award-winning filmmakers Harry Wiland and Dale Bell herald an exciting sea change in the reltionship between ordinary citzens, environmental groups, and local government. This PBS special series witnesses and records a new spirit of cooperation among neighbors, planners, architects and builders, city officials, and government agencies. The Chicago episode - hosted by NPR Weekend Today's Scott Simon, tells stories about inspirational environmental activists: Marian Byrnes, the conscience of the Calumet Steve Packard and Debra Shore, preservers of a little ecosyst...em on the prairie Illinois Teacher of the Year Deb Perryman who plays real-life sustainability games with her high-school students in Elgin Michael and Amelia Howard, who tackle environmental justice issues in their African-American Fuller Park Neighborhood at their Eden Place nature school Victor Crivello's efforts to convert an industrial brownfield into a flourishing plain The story of the rough-and-tumble Mayor Richard Daley whose "greening of Chicago" and cleaning up of the Chicago River is sometimes tough to swallow. more