When we speak of the Backward River, we mean that the Chicago River literally runs backward and that it is part of a backward system with a skewed set of beneficiaries and victims.
Here you’ll find tools, resources, ideas and opportunities to help you value fresh water, heal our shared sources, dismantle environmental racism, establish a reciprocal relationship with nature, expose the disparities of water infrastructure and policy, create socially engaged art, and transform our economic models from extractive to circular.
Why get involved? Because nothing is more precious than water and everyone who lives around it has a stake in its future.
