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Exploring the Chicago RiverEthics, Sustainability, and a Sense of Place
Mike BrysonSustainability Studies Program at RUAESS Conference | Santa Clara, CA23 June 2012
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Cultivating a Sense of Place
ContextUrban Nature in Chicago
ScienceExploring the Chicago River (and beyond)
ArtRepresenting the river
Sustainability and EthicsThinking like a watershed
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Chicago in 1857
Chicago's Urban Nature
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Jardine Water Filtration Plant on Chicago's downtown lakefront
Chicago's Urban Nature
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North Branch of the Chicago River (Spring 2010)
Chicago's Urban Nature
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Chicago's Urban Nature
WMRD's Racine Avenue Pumping Station, Bubbly Creek, Chicago (May 2009)
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Chicago Area Waterway System: rivers, canals, locks, and
controlling structures
Chicago's Urban Nature
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Science, Nature, and a Sense of Place
Understanding the river as a modified natural ecosystem (natural sciences)
Developing policies regarding water quality, river use, sewage treatment (social and natural sciences)
Representing the river as a cultural resource (arts and humanities)
Restoring the river: water quality, biodiversity, riparian zone vegetation, citizen access and recreation (all disciplines)
Exploring the Chicago River
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Cultivating a Sense of Place
ContextUrban Nature in Chicago
ScienceExploring the Chicago River
ArtRepresentations of the river
Sustainability and EthicsThinking like a watershed
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Canoe trip down Bubbly Creek, an industrialized tributary of the South Branchof the Chicago River (May 2009)
Canoeing the South Branch
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Canoeing the North Branch
Heading south into the Loop where the branches meet; Wolf Point in the background (October 2011)
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Assessing Water Quality
Temperature
pH
Turbidity
Dissolved oxygen (DO)
Nutrients (nitrate / phosphate
Bacterial indicators (coliform)
Metals and organic contaminants (lead, copper, benzene, PCBs, hexavalent chromium)
Emerging contaminants (pharmaceuticals, synthetic hormones, flame retardants)
Combined Sewage Outfall Confluence
of the North and South
Branches (October 2011)
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Sampling macro-invertebrate benthos in the Chicago River's North Branch (May 2010)
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Identifying macro-invertebrates from the Chicago River's North Branch (May 2010)
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Cultivating a Sense of Place
ContextUrban Nature in Chicago
ScienceExploring the Chicago River
ArtRepresentations of the river
Sustainability and EthicsThinking like a watershed
Photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee
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Sustainability and Ethics
ContextUrban Nature in Chicago
ScienceExploring the Chicago River
ArtRepresentations of the river
Sustainability and EthicsThinking like a watershed
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In a Sustainable Future:
Environmental resources are conserved for both future human generations as well as non-human biota.
Economic development occurs not at the expense of the natural environment, but in a way to mitigate ecological costs and impacts.
Equity – social, economic, and environmental justice – governs the process of sustainable development.
Debris floating in Bubbly Creek, a tributary of the South Branch of the Chicago River
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Salt Creek Watershed
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Suburban Hardscape
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Green Infrastructure
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Wastewater Treatment
MWRDGC's John Egan Wastewater Treatment Plant, Schaumburg IL / Busse Woods
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The Farm & the River
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Iron Street Farm
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Iron Street Farm
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Photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee