Blacks in Green
Woodlawn Notables
Climate Crisis
Garden Oriented Development
The Great Migration
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2007

When was Blacks in Green Founded?

100

He graduated early from Englewood High School in January 1953 and entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago later that year, graduating in 1957. The last work attributed to him before his death in 2023 is Hero Ascending.

Who is Richard Hunt?

100

Water Vapor

What is the most abundant greenhouse gas?

100

The process plants use to convert sunlight into energy.

What is Photosynthesis?

100

According to U.S. population statistics in 1780 until 1910, more than 90% of the Black-American population lived here.

What is the American South?

200

These twelve propositions have historically been important in African American family life, and that enable recreating walkable urban villages today. 


What is Grannynomics?

200

Born July 13, 1930, he was raised in West Woodlawn, his famous novel was written in Greece, and published in London, presumably while sitting.

Who is Sam Greenlee?

200

These rotating devices commonly seen in large open fields are capable of generating electricity.

What are wind turbines?

200

Choose these types of plants for better adaptation and support of local wildlife.

What are native plant species?

200

In the late summer and autumn of 1919, this term came to refer to white mobs, threatened by black progress, attacking and killing black people across the country.

What is the red summer?

300

Wealth, energy, products, homestead, culture, organization, education, and economy.

What are the 8 Principles of Green-Village-Building?

300

His parents named him after the singer and actor Herb Jeffries. He attended Hyde Park High School in Chicago, and began playing the piano at the age of seven.

Who is Herbie Hancock?

300

It's the largest contributor to human-caused global warming and is released mainly by burning fossil fuels.

What is carbon dioxide?

300

Cool-season crops like lettuce, spinach, radishes, and cabbage do well in this type of lighting condition.

What is partial shade?

300

Before the Great Migration black people made up the majority of the population in these three Southern states.

What are Louisiana, South Carolina, and Mississippi? 

400

If you cannot remember the name of this garden, you can be forgiven.

What is the Mamie Till-Mobley Forgiveness garden?

400

She received her first Guggenheim Fellowship in 1946 and was included as one of the "Ten Young Women of the Year" in Mademoiselle magazine. She went on to be awarded the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 

Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?

400

Daily weather is one thing but this measures changes in patterns over decades and centuries.

What is climate?

400

Removing faded blossoms to redirect energy to strengthen roots and leaves.

What is pruning?

400

The Great Depression slowed migration in the 1930s, but the defense buildup for World War II and with the post-war economic prosperity, larger numbers of Black Americans once again began leaving the South through the 1960s and is often referred to as this.

What is the Second Wave of the Great Migration?

500

The design of this net-zero four flat won the North America Gold Award from the Holcim Foundation.

What is House as Garden?

500

She graduated from Stanford in 1977, receiving a B.S. degree in chemical engineering and a B.A. degree in African and African-American studies. While at Stanford, she also pursued studies related to her childhood interest in space and first considered applying to NASA.

Who is Mae Jemison?

500

Not a river in Africa, but an actual movement to discredit the science behind the climate crisis.

What is the climate denial movement?

500

Once temperatures drop below 50°F, green tomatoes on the vine won't ripen, but those showing color can still do this.

What is ripen indoors?

500

Almost half of those who migrated from Mississippi during the first Great Migration, ended up in this city.

What is Chicago?

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