BLOGS

Back before we moved into the firehouse, we had begun experimenting with folks other than ourselves growing in our indoor aquaponic farm....

Following a collaboration with Loyola University Chicago (LUC) engineering students - Anna Zachary, Valentine Geze, and Brooke McDonald -...

Coming into the year 2020, Plant Chicago set a goal of diverting from the landfill 90% of the ‘waste’ generated across its programs. This...

How to measure impact? That was the challenge I faced while developing Plant Chicago’s inaugural impact report for its Circular Economy...

Oyster mushroom fragment in hydrated packaging material. Compostable food packaging – those beige colored forks and spoons, or clamshells...

Blog Post by Rahul Kulkarni, Plant Chicago Waste Diversion Project Intern – Summer 2020 A Quick Note This analysis is purely based on my...

Blog Post by Ylise Minor, Plant Chicago Circular Packaging Project Intern – Summer 2020 The modern world is one of hasty economic growth...

Circular Economy Advisory Committee members Weslynne Ashton (IIT Stuart School of Business) and Andre Nogueira (Harvard T.H. Chan School...

This summer, two of Plant Chicago’s interns are working on a project that can potentially benefit all farmers and gardeners in Chicago,...

If you’ve been following our social media, you’ve seen periodic updates of Eva’s SCOBY textile project. Below is her summary, the final...

Introducing Plant Chicago’s newest intern, Eva Durance, who is experimenting with SCOBYs as a means of textile production. For this...

Working with Plant Chicago, a group of students from Dr. Weslynne Ashton’s ‘Industrial Ecology and Systems Thinking’ class at IIT’s...

Introduction This summer, Plant Chicago worked with Lauren Lynch, an entomologist from the University of Illinois. Through specimen...

Over the past year Andre Nogueira (PhD Candidate from the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design) and Liz Lyon (Plant...

Post by John Mulrow, PhD Candidate in Civil Engineering at University of Illinois Chicago INTRODUCTION In the last Human v Machine blog...

Plant Chicago intern Sam Evers has taken on an oft-used material at The Plant, coffee chaff, and found yet another use for this...

Plant Chicago intern Clarisel Cantarero has found a way to combine her passion for art with sustainability in helping us find a use for a...

Plant Chicago intern Charles Cole has been investigating a way to reduce food waste leaving The Plant, while at the same time providing...

By Dana Greene, Materials Management Intern As an intern with Plant Chicago, I have been able to work on a variety of unique projects...

Post by John Mulrow, PhD Candidate at University of Illinois Chicago INTRODUCTION Composting is a simple and traditional circular economy...