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Local Entrepreneurs Aim for Zero Waste with Plant Chicago

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By Paul Caine Producer, WTTW’s Chicago Tonight

Originally published at: https://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2016/07/06/local-entrepreneurs-aim-zero-waste-plant-chicago

On the South Side of Chicago some local entrepreneurs are repurposing an old meatpacking plant in an effort to create something very unusual – a way of doing business that creates no trash.

John Edel owns the building and is the visionary behind the collaborative concept. He says the key to the whole endeavor is developing so-called circular economies.

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Blog Post

Synopsis of “The Myth of Brain Sex”

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By Julia Turan

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus! You may have first heard this expression years ago, or more recently as the title of the pop psychology book by John Gray.

During C2ST’s lecture and conversation, The Myth of Brain Sex, Lise Eliot, author and Associate Professor of Neuroscience at the Chicago Medical School of Rosalind Franklin University, and Aaron Freeman, comedian, science journalist and current Artist In Residence for C2ST, address whether or not there really are differences and how they come about.

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Press Release

Science in the City Annual Gala 2016

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C2ST’s Science in the City Gala 2016

Please join C2ST for our sixth annual fundraiser gala, Science in the City, on Thursday, May 5, 2016 at UI Labs on Goose Island from 5:00 to 9:00 PM.

Enjoy stimulating conversation with leaders of Chicago’s scientific, business and philanthropic community, take a tour of the digital manufacturing lab** and enjoy a plated dinner. Chicago-based distillery KOVAL will also be hosting a tasting of its spirits. Proceeds from this event will support C2ST’s programming efforts to educate the public on scientific issues of critical importance.

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