Find out where your plastic waste is going and how to prevent it from entering Lake Michigan from a Shedd Aquarium educator. Nearly 22 million pounds of plastic enter the Great Lakes each year. We can stop this flow of pollution and keep the lakes healthy and safe for ourselves and the animals that call […]
Join us to discuss Nature's Best Hope by Doug Tallamy.
In this panel discussion you will learn about regulatory trends that affect sustainability, maintaining large green spaces, and cultivating a more environmentally sustainable home garden.
Learn how sustainable landscaping can support the health of people, plants, and wildlife. In this panel discussion, you’ll learn about regulatory trends that affect sustainability, promoting plant health and saving money while maintaining large green spaces, and cultivating a more environmentally sustainable home garden. Our panelists: Tessa Murray, Sustainability Coordinator, Village of Northbrook, will […]
Are you concerned about the loss of Birds? Want to do something? Are you interested in making your yard a place for birds to visit, feed, bathe, nest, and raise their chicks? Learn what birds need to make your yard their home. Pam Karlson transformed her small one-tenth of an acre in urban Chicago into […]
Whether photographing trillium at Somme Woods or a Red-tailed Hawk in Somme Prairie Grove, Lisa's photos capture the exquisite and fragile beauty of our ecosystem. If Lisa's photo's inspire you, attend her upcoming virtual library program. She'll focus on techniques to photograph plants, insects, and birds using basic equipment. She will discuss how to look […]
Are you uncertain about what is recyclable and where to recycle it? A representative from Waste Management & other experts provide an inside look at how to recycle effectively to help the environment. Do you find yourself “wishcycling” small plastic objects? Or confused about whether shredded paper is recyclable? Recycling helps the environment when done […]
Learn why investing in companies with high environmental and social priorities makes good financial sense. Three investment professionals will discuss how to develop an investment portfolio that combines building equity with helping to secure a livable world for you, your family, and our future. In partnership with Go Green Northbrook and Northbrook Chamber of Commerce. […]
Learn how volunteers restored degraded land in Northbrook into a thriving habitat teeming with endangered animals and plants. Somme Preserves are an ecological community treasure that is growing. Today, Northbrook's Somme Preserves are a thriving home to hundreds of native plants and animals, but this was not always the case. Forest Preserve Steward Christos Economou […]