Full Title: Green Era Urban Farming Campus Project Profile
Author(s): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher(s): U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publication Date: June 24, 2024
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Description (excerpt):
The Green Era Urban Farming Campus is located on a 9-acre, former Brownfield site in the
Auburn-Gresham neighborhood of Chicago’s South Side. It will serve as a local hub for renewable energy generation, urban farming, and community programming and education.
The urban project will provide an innovative alternative to landfilling food waste from around Chicago, which will be collected from restaurants, food companies, manufacturers, and residents, and fed into the project’s anaerobic digester tank to produce three beneficial products – renewable natural gas (RNG), food grade carbon dioxide (CO2) for local use, and nutrient-rich compost.
Project partners Urban Growers Collective, Green Era Educational NFP, Green Era Sustainability, and the Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation have invested over a decade of grassroots organizing in getting the project built. Funding for the project includes a portion of $10 million from the Pritzker Traubert Foundation’s first Chicago Prize, along with a combination of other grants and private investment funds.