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Roosevelt University's Contributions to the RSC


Through their connections with urban restoration organizations, RU offers a unique perspective into urban sustainability and environmental justice issues.

For a more in-depth appreciation of what this looks like, please read Michael Bryson and Michael's Haward's 
Cultivating the Wild on Chicago's South Side:
Stories of People and Nature at Eden Place Nature Center​
​

"...And what of the wild, both around and within us? How do reclaimed inner-city green
spaces like Eden Place cultivate wildness? Michael Howard’s mantra is a deceptively simple
truth: "If we build it, the wild will come." Not just refuge-seeking animals, the furtive coyote,
and the soaring hawk, but also the teeming microbes and invertebrates of a restored topsoil
enriched by years of compost and rooted with prairie forbs and grasses. These, too, are
manifestations of the wild. Not just the acquisition of ecological literacy among children and
their families, but also the renewed joy of working the soil, tending vegetables and greens,
planting trees—small acts of stewardship and healing that, bit by bit, counteract decades of
alienation, fear, and cultural trauma. These, too, are reclamations of the wild through both bodily
labor and cultural memory. At Eden Place, the wild is not simply there; it is always in the
process of being remade."
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  • Home
  • About
    • Shared Values
    • RSC Stewards
    • RSC Student Stewards
    • Contact
  • Partner Universities
    • Black Hills State University >
      • BHSU's Contributions
    • Eberswalde University for Sustainable Developement >
      • Eberswalde Contributions
    • Kansas Weslyan University >
      • KWU's Contributions
    • Principia College >
      • PC's Contributions
    • Sonoma State University >
      • Sonoma's Contributions
    • Roosevelt University >
      • RU's Contributions
      • Sustainability at Roosevelt
    • The Evergreen State College- Tacoma >
      • Evergreen's Contributions
    • Paul Quinn College >
      • Paul Quinn College Contributions
    • Western Colorado University >
      • Western's Contributions
      • MEM Program
    • Northern New Mexico College >
      • NNMC Contributions
    • Paul Smith's College >
      • PSC Contributions
    • Tuskegee University >
      • TU Contributions
  • RSC in Action
    • RSC in Action
  • Shared Resources
    • Upcoming Events
    • Past Events >
      • Summer Retreat 2020
      • Western's Spring Symposium
      • Roosevelt University Spring 2017 SUST Symposium
      • Summer Retreat 2017
    • Speakers
  • 2020 Summer Course Offerings
    • ENVS 397: Mountain Resiliency
    • ENVS 392: Environmental Justice
    • ENVS 376: The Colorado Water Workshop
    • SUST 361: Urban Ecology
    • Political Economic Ethnography
    • Beyond Dirt: The Ecology of Soil