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A plug(in) for Uncommon Ground

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

If you haven’t been to Uncommon Ground in Edgewater yet, here’s some motivation for the alternative-mobility mavens. (You know who you are!) The eco-awesome UG’s annual alternative-transportation–themed Green Room Session always features some cool clean-energy rides and innovators.

Here are the details:
Green Room Sessions – Alternative Transportation Fair
Uncommon Ground
1401 W. Devon Ave.
6-8pm

Chicago Biofuels, Climate Cycle, Plug-In Vehicle Solutions, and the Midwest High Speed Rail Association will be on hand. Us? We’ll be making googly eyes at a Nissan Leaf in our plug-in Prius.

We’ll also be offering discount I-GO memberships, so if you know someone who’s been considering joining I-GO, bring them along and we’ll set them up with a sweet deal!

Here are some pix we snapped at last year’s version:

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Aqua wins Skycraper of the Year award

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010


Big congrats to Chicago’s own Jeanne Gang and her Studio Gang architecture firm for winning the 2009 Emporis Skyscraper Award global competition! Wow. What a shooting star. And she deserves it — the Aqua tower, located at 225 N. Columbus Dr. in the Lakeshore East development, is a kinetic, organic revelation.

Did we mention that I-GO has a 2010 Suburu Legacy (vehicle #4606) at the Aqua? Besides its swirling, undulating physique, the Aqua is a green building from its green roof (pending come spring, we hear) to the dedicated charging stations in its parking garage. We plan to add a a plug-in hybrid electric car (or two) there this year, in addition to the Legacy, a luxe ride that boasts excellent fuel efficiency in its class.

An I-GO plug-in Prius served as the spotlit demo vehicle for a press conference with Mayor Daley when Magellan, the Aqua’s developer, debuted the charging station technology.

We recorded the event on our Flip video camera >>

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