GreenTown: Climate Crisis Virtual Conference

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Want to learn more about sustainable development in communities? Attend the 22nd Annual GreenTown Conference to explore a variety of topics ranging from 100% renewable energy and a just transition, to resilient regional food systems. This event will include webinars, film screenings,  panel discussions, and a keynote by Jacqueline Patterson, Director of the NAACP Environmental […]

Fall Bird Walk with Friends of the Green Bay Trail

Takiff Center 999 Green Bay Road, Glencoe, IL, United States

Fall bird migration has begun! Join Tim Joyce of Wild Birds Unlimited, to identify migrating and regional birds on a walk along the Green Bay Trail north of Maple Hill. Following the walk learn how to prepare your yard to support birds passing through and those that will overwinter locally. Park in the Takiff Center's […]

Smith Nature Symposium: Environmental Justice in Lake County

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Clean Power Lake County organizes within front-line environmental justice communities to shift Lake County to healthy, renewable energy and to achieve the self-determination of immigrant, low-income, and working-class families. This community-driven coalition is committed to local action to secure environmental, economic, and racial justice. Learn about the power of this effort from the leaders of […]

Film Screening of ‘Sustainable’

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Hosted by It’s Our Future youth environmental leadership program and One Earth Film Festival Youth Advisory Council. FILM DESCRIPTION: A vital investigation of the economic and environmental instability of America’s food system, from the agricultural issues we face—soil loss, water depletion, climate change, pesticide use—to the community of leaders who are determined to fix it. […]

Lend a Hand on the Green Bay Trail

Shelton Park 385 Old Green Bay Road, Glencoe, IL, United States

The Friends of the Green Bay Trail sponsors trail work days several times a month from 9-11 a.m. Meet at the Trail's Harbor St. entrance, just east of Green Bay Rd. in Glencoe. Restoration and stewardship work varies.  Long pants and closed toe shoes are recommended.  Bring  reusable gloves, clippers, bug spray and a mask.  […]

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Lee Street Beach Clean Up

Evanston Lee Beach 1111 Lake Shore Blvd., Evanston, IL, United States

On Saturday 9/19 at 10 am, volunteers are holding a beach cleanup at Lee Street Beach through the Alliance for the Great Lakes. Here is the link to the registration page. https://adopt.greatlakes.org/s/cleanup/a2o1L000000hdXD If you have time, please sign up and volunteer. ANY amount of time and effort is welcomed! Hope to see you! #cleanup

Gillson Park Bird Habitat Workday

Gillson Park Lake Ave. and Michigan Ave., Wilmette, IL, United States

Watch this short video to see why our bird habitat near Lake Michigan is so important. We will meet at the bird habitat that stretches south from the corner of Lake and Michigan Avenues in Wilmette. Please bring a mask to wear at times when we must be close to each other. We will weed […]

Go Green Reads: The Overstory

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Email us for the Zoom link and login info Join us for a discussion of The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction – a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, […]

Community Solar Webinar

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If you can’t put solar panels on your own home, but want to support 100% renewable energy in Illinois with no upfront investment, you can now subscribe to a community solar project. You can save money while also supporting local renewable energy. Learn more about community solar and what it means for you living in […]

GreenTown: Climate Crisis Virtual Conference

Online

Want to learn more about sustainable development in communities? Attend the 22nd Annual GreenTown Conference to explore a variety of topics ranging from 100% renewable energy and a just transition, to resilient regional food systems. This event will include webinars, film screenings,  panel discussions, and a keynote by Jacqueline Patterson, Director of the NAACP Environmental […]