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Drew Baker is one of over 60 contributors to our photo pool on Flickr.
We appreciate all of our readers. We appreciate that our readership has grown month after month. Some readers have asked how they can contribute to Grid Chicago. There are many ways!
Social Networking
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Talent
We are always looking for people to write articles (we’ve had six guest contributors so far!), but if you’re willing to donate your time in other ways, you could become a “photo correspondent” or create videos about events or transportation projects – contact us.
Media
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- Videos – If you’ve got a video on Vimeo, we can add it to our channel there. For YouTube, you’ll just have to send us a link and we could publish it.
- Network – We have this little known feature called the Grid Chicago Network, where articles from other sites that publish articles on sustainable transportation are listed. You can suggest a new link, or you can embed the widget in your site (instructions are at the bottom of this page).
Monetary support
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What would you think of a south side-focused piece that’s the flipside of my previous piece about problems with existing conditions? This could focus on how the south side could benefit for Streets for Cycling and include photos of cool destinations that would be easier to reach with improved bike infrastructure.
That is a great idea.
There’s no lack of topics or ideas, really, but a lack of time and people to write about them.
There’s never enough time for all the good stuff out there.