Lovely Molly at prone2wander.blogspot.com in working with ‘Let’s Go’ alongside making her beautiful artwork at the moment! Read on to learn more and to see how you can get involved!

Leading the Energy Transition, Sprouting Green Opportunities (LET’S GO) developed out of a synergy between a youth garden program and the founding of a community house in Chicago in the summer of 2010. In its initial year, the program taught twenty neighborhood children how to grow food in the front yard of a house owned by a local church while developing sustainability solutions for the property as a whole.

In the summer of 2011, they’ll be launching an initiative to transform the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago into a model of sustainability that ;

• Establishes meaningful partnerships between existing community organizations
• Is accessible to everyone in the community
• Creates livable wage jobs for those most in need to do the work that most needs to be done

and

• Demonstrates a holistic model of urban sustainability

Utilizing the house and communal gardening area as a neighborhood gathering and exhibition space, they’ll maximize resources and partner to collectively find local solutions to global concerns. LET’S GO hopes to be a model for transformative change engaging in projects such as

• urban gardening
• home retrofitting
• small-scale renewable energy opportunities

and

• increasing awareness and access of healthy, local food

Rogers Park has been noted as one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country. That says a lot for the possibilities of building an inclusive climate justice movement. Let’s Go is uniquely positioned there because of the tremendous potential for diverse community outreach as well as the incredible interactions that result from building relationships with people from all over the world.

Through the support of this diverse community they hope to foster change by inviting everyone to have a stake in creating a viable future for us all.

Program Leaders: Michelle Amiott, Peter Hoy, Molly Costello, Breanna Dahl
Email: sos.chicago.2011@gmail.com for more info and learn more about
Let’s go and how you can donate visit :
grandaspirations.org/chicago