Chicago :

Dunn Right

05.30.2008

Submitted by alara on Fri, 05/30/2008 - 12:01am.
The Bite:
imageIf you see Ken Dunn hauling recyclables around town in his red-cab truck, give him a high-five. Ken must be doing something right after 30 years of success with his Resource Center of Chicago nonprof, which operates a gaggle of thriving sustainability projects. Among them, City Farm: two (soon three) organic, community farms that compost food waste from area restaurants and cooking schools, grow gourmet produce (hello, 30 kinds of tomatoes), then sell the goods back to restaurants and us regular peeps. RC also runs three recycling centers, a bicycle recycling/job training project, and the Creative Reuse Warehouse, a teacher- and artist-haven packed with overstock industrial objects (think metal doodads, plastic whatchamacallits). Wanna do it right? Dunn and done.
Wanna Try: 
Ken spends most Saturdays at RC’s Wrightwood Recycling drop-off site, 2600 N. Lincoln Ave. at Wrightwood Ave.
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In 1968, when Ken was a U Chicago grad student, he convinced a few guys on the street to help him recycle some bottles – instantly, creating jobs and resources - and decided to devote his life to garbage.

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zz  on November 13, 2009 at 04:24 AM 1
Ken spends most Saturdays at RC’s Wrightwood Recycling drop-off site, 2600 N. Lincoln Ave. at Wrightwood Ave. games adventure games

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