Loyola Chicago’s Mosaic

Is Mosaic’s green-knifework done? Now they’re gearing up for a new issue this semester, and the Mosaic staff of 2007 is half-graduated, half off doing broadcast classes (because we were all just that photogenic and made for the silver screen). Yet I doubt things are ever done.

Sure, I haven’t written here in months. And I haven’t handed out all my issues of Mosaic to the people I promised them (”Jim Chelsvig, director of the River Forest, Ill., Trailside Museum, please visit Customer Service. We have your child/interview.”). It seems like the wheels have stopped turning on our project. But Americans can never be done. Even those with anti-green histories can change.

As for the subject of our magazine, the Greening of Chicago, America is Chicago. All eyes are on us as the new City of Kings. We have given the world a new president, and, whether you agree with his methods or not, he needs our help to show the world what a steel-boned, smog-exhaling city can do to save itself from its sordid Industrial Age past.

The presidential motorcade on its way to Hyde Park might be adding a few extra hydrocarbons to our air supply. But gosh darn it, we’ll clean that up, too. We have a city and a country to work on now, don’t we?

Maybe I sound like I have an agenda, and certainly I do. But I am not telling you guys what it is, because I just have that much journalistic and blogging integrity and because it doesn’t really matter. Whether public or private saviors, we know we don’t want to see the world burn and boil.