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Nov 27, 2019
Eco-friendly holiday waste reduction strategies to apply when planning the family meal gatherings.
Nov 01, 2019
Green City Market (GCM) is moving indoors on November 2 to the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. Celebrating their 20th season of nourishing Chicagoans with local, fresh ingredients as they move indoors for the winter months.
Oct 31, 2019 ● By Kyle Hass
Chris McCarthy just wanted to be helpful. A longtime paint professional who had gained a real estate license, homeowners kept asking him what do with all the leftover paint they had in their homes.
Oct 31, 2019
No icebreakers were necessary. The artists and scientists gathered on a warm, late-summer day at Indiana Dunes National Park were eager to dive in. They met, learned about each other’s work, hiked and talked.
To some, a flock of migrating sandhill cranes sounds like bugles calling from the sky. Others say it resembles a rolling rattle, while some liken it to a prolonged French pronunciation of the letter R.
Add character to your home and practice sustainability by repurposing, upcycling or restoring old antique furniture items in an eco-friendly way.
Oct 18, 2019
Enter for A Chance to Win Free Tickets to Fair Trade Chicago's GlobalFest!
Sep 30, 2019
McHenry County College (MCC) Sustainability Center will host the 12th annual Green Living Expo from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., November 2nd.
The “circular economy” is all about rethinking the way we make stuff—designing products that can be reused and powering it all with renewable energy.
Sep 17, 2019
Monarch butterflies have experienced an 80 percent population decline over the last 20 years, partly due to loss of milkweed plants, the only food source for monarch caterpillars.
Plant experts Sandra Mason and Greg Spyreas agree that goldenrods, those prolific plants that bloom bright yellow in September and October, are unjustly maligned.
Aug 30, 2019
Safe and effective non-toxic, green cleaning solutions using natural ingredients that are good for our health and the planet.
The growing plastics crisis has inspired companies to shift away from single-use containers to ones that are reusable with a deposit.
Aug 15, 2019
We can minimize our impact on nature while still enjoying it by using such strategies as buying tents made of recycled materials, forgoing single-use plastics, and packing our trash out instead of burning it.
Installing floating solar panels on only a quarter of U.S. manmade reservoirs could generate about 10 percent of national energy needs.
The use of plastic bags in the Empire State—23 billion a year that mostly end up in landfills and waterways—will become illegal in March.
Aug 15, 2019 ● By Yvette C. Hammett
Farmers are increasingly exploring inexpensive organic methods to return microbial diversity to the soil, which could help mitigate a warming planet by allowing soil to absorb more carbon.
Jul 24, 2019 ● By Sheryl DeVore
The project is teaching volunteers to recognize the 12 most commonly heard insects in the Chicago region and how to document them in the field.
Jul 24, 2019
There are about 1,000 acres of dolomite prairie on the Midewin. At the core of dolomite prairie is magnesium-rich dolomitic limestone that is home to specialized plants evolved to take advantage of poor, shallow soils.
Veggie Fest Chicago, now in its 13th year and one of the largest vegetarian food and wellness festivals in North America, has moved to a new location—Danada South Park at Navistar Drive, in Lisle.
