Go Green Winnetka has created a New Homeowners Guide, a go-to resource to help people moving homes make a sustainable transition. The Guide has numerous suggestions for conscious choices before and after the move that positively influence our environment. Practical tips are offered, from eco-friendly packing materials to waste diversion strategies.
Please pass this link along to friends and neighbors who are moving or have recently moved.
This Month's Topic: Conservation
The Illinois Environmental Council has recently launched a new Lunch & Learn webinar series, Environmental Policy 101, focusing on six key areas of their work in environmental policy: zero waste, clean water, clean energy, equitable transportation, conservation, and sustainable agriculture. Register below to get a bird's eye view of the top conservation challenges Illinois faces and the most viable policy solutions.
Reel Earth: Inspring Action
Film Lineup Announced
Chicago-based One Earth Collective is thrilled to announce the official dates and films for the 2024 One Earth Film Festival—a week-long premiere environmental film festival, taking place from April 17 to April 23. Experience five days of in-person screenings followed by two days of virtual viewings, offering a diverse array of films to inspire and educate. Find out more about dates, times, and locations right here on their website.
Ever wonder where all that stuff you put into your recycling bin goes? This Earth Day, LRS (Winnetka's recycling service provider) is hosting an open house and tour at their state-of-the-art Exchange Material Recovery Facility. See behind the scenes of the recycling process and witness the technology and people power that make it happen. Three one-hour shifts are available. Space is limited—reserve your ticket now here.
Still confused about what can and cannot be recycled? Download LRS's Recycling Guidelines here.
Join architect, Nate Kipnis, and homeowner, Margaret Stender, for a special Earth Week presentation about Evanston’s first certified Passive House.
The home was designed to PHIUS (Passive House) standards, one of the most rigorous building certifications for exceptionally energy-efficient and remarkably resilient homes. It is approximately 30 times as airtight as neighboring homes, all while providing correct levels of fresh air. It has a very large solar array to power the all-electric house. Join the Evanston History Center to learn about this groundbreaking home and a key marker in Evanston’s architectural history! RSVP required.
For decades, the Illinois Environmental Council’s Lobby Days have connected environmentalists from across the state with their elected representatives in the General Assembly to effectively advocate for Illinois’ people and environment. Gather in Springfield to meet with legislators and advocate for the environmental issues that matter to you most.
Join the IEC for a trip to the Illinois Statehouse to speak with legislators about the most important issues facing Illinois. Other upcoming Lobby Days:
Find out about any of these opportunities to get in front of Illinois legislators, plus transportation options HERE.
VIRTUAL EVENT
Join us as we peek behind the curtain in the highly secretive US grocery industry. Author Benjamin Lorr conducted five years of research and hundreds of interviews to answer questions such as: What does it take to run an American supermarket? How does our food get on the shelves? Who sets the prices? And who suffers the consequences of our ever-increasing demands for efficiency?
We start at the top, learning the secrets of Trader Joe’s success from founder Joe Coulombe, before quickly moving down the food supply chain into more hidden places—driving with truckers who describe their job as “sharecropping on wheels," following entrepreneurs as they struggle to get their products on shelves, breaking into factory farms with activists to examine “fair trade” and “free range” ethical audit systems, and tracing the paths of trafficked migrants in Myanmar and Thailand to understand life at the bottom of the commodity chain.
Please register below and email Go Green Reads with any questions.
Thank you to The Book Stall for its generous support of our communities and these discussions!
Go Green Winnetka meets monthly to discuss current initiatives and sustainability efforts. This month we will meet on Zoom on Wednesday, April 17 at noon. Join us to find out what's coming up as the days get warmer, add to the discussion, find opportunities to volunteer, or just listen in. All community members are welcome. Please reply to gogreenwinnetka@gmail.com to receive the meeting link.
That's why Go Green Winnetka is partnering with other organizations to collect Bread Tags for Wheelchairs. These tags (bread, bagel, muffin, produce, veggies) are pristine plastic and a valuable raw material and billions are made each year. They can’t be recycled through standard curbside programs because they are too small and too lightweight to sort easily. Most are made from #6 plastic/polystyrene.
Look for Mason jars at Grand Food Center and D36 schools—and start saving those bread tags!
260,000 bread tags = 200 lbs of plastic = one basic wheelchair
Check out these websites of participating organizations for more information.
Go Green Winnetka
Glencoe Sustainability Task Force
SCARCE
Danielle Cares for Chairs
Contact Go Green Winnetka with any questions.
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