Dear Friends,

Whew! It’s hot. Does anyone doubt this is a consequence of Climate Change? We may be boiling mad as government and industry simmer over environmental protections, but there is much we can do ourselves to short-circuit the heat bubble of greenhouse gas. Composting food waste is proven

to reduce air-polluting methane gas that causes not only the temperature to rise, but debilitating respiratory problems.

The Collective Resource Compost Collective will be speaking at Skyline Village’s monthly luncheon in August. Here’s what they have to say:

When food scraps are buried in landfills, they cause harm in the form of methane, a greenhouse gas. It’s estimated that one head of lettuce would take 25 years to completely break down in a landfill, emitting methane all that time.

Though the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, has been in more news articles, methane is the greenhouse gas we need to mitigate. If we focus on reducing methane we will see a much quicker ecological response in terms of reducing the Earth’s temperature. “Cutting methane is the single fastest, most effective opportunity to reduce climate change risks in the near term,” says atmospheric scientist Ilissa Ocko in her TEDtalk titled The fastest way to slow climate change now.

The fastest way to slow climate change now..

Reducing landfill waste can reduce air pollution and associated respiratory illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and pneumonia, thereby improving the health of the vulnerable communities that live near landfills.

According to the EPA, methane has been likened to carbon dioxide "on steroids," so reducing its emissions is critical to slowing short-term global warming. During its first 20 years in the atmosphere, methane produced

more than 80 times the warming power of CO2.

Illinois ranked eighth in the country with the most methane emissions from landfills in 2022. Read here for more information on methane-producing landfills in Illinois. In 2021, the Biden administration announced a plan to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 50% by 2030. But we can do our part now by instituting the composting of food waste in our buildings.

Join us August 23 to hear how your building can establish composting services. See announcement below.



Meanwhile, come to Skyline’s July luncheon on The Women’s History Project, Zoom into a talk on how to shop at the Farmer's Market, meet us in Millennium Park for evening concerts and don’t forget the Beatles Sing Along July 28!

Women's Salon

That Tomato Ain't This Tomato!

Friday, July 26, 3:00-4:30

Via ZOOM: Register HERE

Connie Spreen

Co-Founder, 61^st Street Farmers Market

Friday, July 26, 1:00 pm

Register Here

Carron Little, Executive Director. Carron engages us in conversation about the Chicago Women’s History Center and its latest projects: 

Women Building Chicago 1790 – 1990, A Biographical Dictionary and “Documenting Women’s Activism and Leadership in the Chicago Area, 1945 – 2000” 

Carron Little is an educator and activist working at the intersection of public policy and public engagement, conducting artistic and scholarly research focusing on racial and gender inclusion. 

Free download of the book, Women Building Chicago: A Biographical Dictionary, 1790-1990: https://www.chicagowomenshistory.org/wbc-book

Friday, August 23, 1:00 PM

Register Here

Does Your Building Compost?

Earlean Howard, President

Collective Resource Compost Cooperative

You want an easy, actionable way to combat climate change and make a positive difference in your loved ones’ futures. Diverting your food scraps from a landfill through composting both reduces the amount of methane your household is responsible for producing and recovers resources to enable the nutrients present in your food waste to become a natural fertilizer to regenerate our soil.

There are various ways your building can compost food waste. Come learn how and get all your questions answered.

Erlene Howard, an Evanston resident, was inspired to start a food scrap recycling service when she realized that, if composting were made more convenient, more people would do it. Her first pickups started with three customers, using her Toyota Camry for collection. Collective Resource Compost’s customer base has since grown to over 3000 residential and nearly 300 commercial customers. The company now uses five cargo vans and four box trucks to collect pre- and post-consumer food scraps weekly in an area that extends to over 60 communities encompassing Chicago’s entire north side as well as near south and southwest side neighborhoods.



During their first six months of business, Collective Resource Compost collected a single ton. Now they collect 40+ tons per week. The company reached a total collection milestone of 10,000 tons in January 2023.

Skyliners will gather on the Michigan Avenue (west) side of the Great Lawn in Millennium Park at 5:30 on July 24 and August 7 for the Grant Park Orchestra concerts in the Pritzker Pavilion. Concerts begin at 6:30. Bring your chairs or blankets and a picnic dinner if you like. Please review City of Chicago rules for Millennium Park concerts (below).

WED JUL 24, 6:30-8:00 Beethoven 5th

Eric Jacobsen, conductor

PROGRAM

Edvard Grieg: Holberg Suite

Nathalie Joachim: Cocoon (world premiere)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

WED AUG  7, 6:30-8:00 Mozart

Carlos Kalmar, conductor 

PROGRAM

Luciano Berio/Luigi Boccherini: Withdrawal by Night in Madrid

Aaron Copland: Suite from Appalachian Spring

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter

The City of Chicago requires that all patrons attending any concert at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion enter from either Randolph or Monroe Streets, or from the Millennium Garage. Patrons are no longer able to enter the Pavilion from Michigan Avenue.

The City of Chicago’s security perimeter and bag check procedures will continue. Please familiarize yourself with the list of prohibited items in order to expedite your trip through security. Please note that metal knives are not allowed in the Park.

The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, including the Seating Bowl and Great Lawn, will be closed prior to live events. Unless otherwise posted, entrances and bag check lines open 90 minutes prior to the start of the concert.

The Festival's Patron Service Center, a white tent located on the upper walkway to the left of the Pavilion, opens 90 minutes before the concert.

Join the Choir this Summer

Summer Rocks!

No audition! In the Sounds Good/Good Memories 8-week, Summer Rocks! session, the songs are so filled with summer heat, you can almost smell the sizzle of burgers on the grill. You’ll have a rockin’ good time all the way through the final performance with Good Vibrations, Under the Boardwalk, Can’t Buy Me Love, Everyday People, Splish Splash, and I Heard it Through the Grapevine

Register HERE for Summer Rocks!

Cost: $125 registration fee includes sheet music, professional direction, concerts, practice tracks, online rehearsal options, livestream rehearsals, concerts and more. Reduced tuition is available and confidential; contact Shukera at 630.395.9542.

Register today. Or come to the first two rehearsals for free to check us out!

Sounds Good

Mondays, 12-1:30 pm

OR

Good Memories

Tuesdays, 10:30 am -12 pm

Fourth Presbyterian Church

126 E. Chestnut St.

Chicago, IL 60611

(Room 4G, Gratz Center)

Concert: Thursday, August 8, 2:00pm

Oiy Technology!

Communications technology has proved a useful and potentially life-enhancing tool. Yet, the proliferation of incoming messages can be stressful, foster meaningless communication, undermine the quality of human interactions, and render some of us unable to sit in the silence and solitude essential to process thinking and to renew our spirits.

At the same time, we may feel compelled to be courteous and responsive to our friends and relatives. Here’s a suggestion that you may like to cut and paste into the “signature” of your emails:

I’m currently limited in responding to every incoming message. Please note that I find it impossible to:

• Respond to every email, text message, voicemail or social media message I receive;
• Respond to messages within the same hour or day;
• Respond to messages on Saturday or Sunday;
• Answer the phone while I’m on another call.

If your message requires my immediate attention and you don’t get a timely response, please keep trying.

The City of Chicago and the organizers of the Democratic National Convention would like to minimize impacts and disruptions to local residents, businesses, and organizations in advance of the Democratic National Convention, August 19-22.

As we get closer to the start of the convention, additional announcements will be made regarding street closures, parking restrictions, reroutes, alert notifications, how to get around the city, and more.

In an effort to provide the tools needed to stay in loop on the impacted areas around the United Center and McCormick Place. We strongly suggest downloading the Chicago OEMC App. Click here to learn more.

Sign up for Smart911

Create a Smart911 profile now to include vital information to share with first responders. A new feature has been added to include if you have air conditioning in your home or apartment for heat emergencies.This is useful information for first responders if they are responding to vulnerable residents, particularly seniors.

To edit your profile or sign-up, visit Smart911.com

How Does Smart911 Work?

Smart911 allows citizens to provide the additional details that 9-1-1 call takers may need in order to assist them during an emergency. When you dial 9-1-1 today the information received by the 9-1-1 call center can be limited based on the type of phone you are calling on. With Smart911, anytime you make an emergency call from a phone registered with your Safety Profile, the 9-1-1 systems recognizes your phone number and automatically displays your profile on the screen of the call taker who receives your call.

At a time when you may be panicked, or unable to communicate, or it could be unsafe to communicate,Smart911 ensures that the details you would need to tell 9-1-1 are immediately available in the event you cannot verbally provide them. Smart911 is free, private and secure. Please review our Privacy Policy for further information.

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Examples: What’s the Name of That Book?

• Adult romance/Women gets new chance after she died
• Historical romance, MC had a face transplant bc of burns he sustained saving the FL from a fire I think & becomes the FL’s bodyguard, read in the last 5 years
• Adult Vampire series? Coven of vampires gather in a mansion for important ceremony. No desire for human sex, something more ethereal and blood related. Read around 2009.

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