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Lake Calumet Initiative Stretching from Southeast Chicago to Northwest Indiana, the Lake Calumet region is a study in contrasts: outstanding natural environments intermingled within a 15,000-acre brownfield. Despite a 130-year history of heavy industrial use, the region contains critical remnants of highly endangered ecosystems, including prairie wetlands, oak savannas, and oak woodlands along with a number of endangered and threatened species. The potential for revitalizing the area in an environmentally sustainable fashion has captured the attention of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Illinois Governor George Ryan who announced a groundbreaking collaboration to revive the industrial sector, create the Calumet Open Space Reserve, build a new environmental center, and remediate polluted industrial sites, marshes, and wetlands. With Field Museum President John W. McCarter, Jr. named as one of four chairs of the Calumet Sustainable Advisory Committee, the Museum is committed to contributing its scientific expertise to help build a nationally renowned model for sustainable economic development. By leading initiatives to identify the region's biological and cultural assets, the Museum will assist with the identification of restoration targets and help to ensure that environmental programs developed for the area are tailored to local needs. <<back Project Toolbox ECP’s Project Toolbox is a participatory communication project that uses visual media and small format print materials to support community involvement in conservation programs and rural development in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Project Toolbox provides the information on natural resource management that rural communities need—and in a form they can really use! Most of all, Project Toolbox is a capacity building effort that provides media production skills to The Field Museum's collaborating institutions, as well as local community members. These informal training efforts help institutions and conservation professionals to communicate more effectively with rural audiences and involve communities in research, resource conservation, and sustainable development programs. Visit the Project Toolbox website. <<back |
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