Chicago, Summer 2008

Encore at the Field Museum

Selection of globes to once again be on display

Last summer, "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet" was launched in Chicago. The public art exhibit featured more than 120 larger-than-life globes each designed to depict a solution to global warming. This summer, a selection of globes will once again be on display at the Field Museum. Additionally, a new globe designed by first grade students participating in By The Hand, an after-school program focused on assisting at-risk kids, will be unveiled. This is a great opportunity for those who missed the exhibit last year to still experience the globes.

April 17 – September 1, 2008

The Field Museum Campus
1400 S. Lakeshore Drive, Chicago
North side of the Field Museum

Click here to learn more about the Field Museum's "Melting Ice" exhibit.

Launched, Summer 2007

Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet encore. From April 17 to September 1, 2008, a selection of globes will once again be on display at the Field Museum. Additionally, a new globe designed by first grade students participating in By The Hand, an after-school program focused on assisting at-risk kids will be unveiled. This is a great opportunity for those who missed the exhibit last year to still experience the globes.

More About the 2007 Chicago Exhibit

Cool Globes debuted in Chicago with a June 1, 2007 grand opening celebration attended by more than 500 people, including artists, sponsors, business and civic leaders, and children. This public event featured a news conference with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, the unveiling of eight globes, refreshments and live entertainment. Cool Globes' educational partner, the Field Museum, also hosted more than 230 CPS students who learned about climate change before attending the event. The globes were displayed along Chicago's lakefront, from the Museum Campus to Navy Pier, from June 1 to September 30, 2007.

Cool Globes was launched in Chicago because of the City's leadership and dedication to promoting environmentally sound policies. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's goal is to make his city the greenest in the nation through the promotion of environmental programs and practices, including a bike initiative, adding hybrid buses to the city's mass transit system, and building "green" libraries, public schools and police stations. Mayor Daley served as honorary co-chair of the Chicago Cool Globes project.

To help engage and educate a broad-based audience, the Chicago 2007 Cool Globes project featured the following components:

Interactive Web site where exhibit visitors were encouraged to pledge to make five changes in their daily lives or business operations to reduce their environmental impact. Those who pledged were entered in a raffle to win a Toyota Prius.
Educational tools to raise awareness of solutions to global warming, including:
- A lesson plan to support Chicago Public Schools (CPS) teachers in discussing global warming and how kids can be part of the solution.
- A "Cool Globes for Cool Kids" contest in which local children designed their own mini paper mâché globes and learned about solutions to global warming.
- Docent-led tours and a guidebook to provide in-depth information about the globes and the solutions they represented.
A fundraising gala at the Field Museum that featured keynote speaker Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A Business Leaders Roundtable event at which more than 100 corporate leaders and environmental experts shared best practices in business solutions to global warming.
A charity auction of select large and mini-globes from the Cool Globes exhibit. Hosted by Al Franken, the auction raised $500,000 to fund the expansion of environmental education programs, including the expansion of Chicago Conservation Clubs in Chicago Public Schools.