Be a Food Waste Hero during Food Waste Prevention Week 2024 and save the day, one meal at a time. Don't be fooled by waste—join the mission to rescue delicious meals and be the hero our planet needs.
International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) is the largest and most comprehensive education initiative of the compost industry. It is celebrated during the first full week of May throughout the US and internationally. The goal of ICAW is to work together to raise public awareness on why we all should be composting our organics and using compost to create healthier soil.
Students in grades 3 to 5 will learn the basics of how to make a film from professional filmmakers. Instruction will cover story, framing, lighting, audio, editing, and production. Entering the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest is encouraged but not compulsory.
BRING AN IPAD OR TABLET! Nut-free snacks and water are provided. Cost is $45 for River Forest residents and $50 for non-residents. Location is River Forest Depot, 401 Thatcher Ave., River Forest, IL. This is a collaboration with the River Forest Park District.
For many of our youth and their families, finding a warm coat that fits is a crucial challenge each year. Without one, a young person can struggle to go to school, attend BUILD programs, escape dangerous situations, or stay healthy. A good coat can mean hope and safety, and each year we help more than three hundred more youth stay warm.
Chicago Conservation Corps’s Fall 2024 Sustainability Leadership Training is your way to spark change in your community.
You will receive training from C3 Experts representing established organizations already doing sustainability work. After
completing the Sustainability Leadership Training, C3 Leaders become sustainability champions in their communities and
receive funds and individualized museum staff support for an unlimited number of sustainability projects.
This 8-week course will be held online via Zoom this fall. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings,
October 2 - November 20, from 6pm-8pm. We never want finances to be a barrier to participation and as a result this
training is pay what you can. If you are able, a $125 suggested course fee helps to offset staff time and resources.
How to Attend:
Scan the QR code, visit naturemuseum.org/c3, or call 773-755-5128 to reserve a space.
Chicago Conservation Corps’s Fall 2024 Sustainability Leadership Training is your way to spark change in your community.
You will receive training from C3 Experts representing established organizations already doing sustainability work. After
completing the Sustainability Leadership Training, C3 Leaders become sustainability champions in their communities and
receive funds and individualized museum staff support for an unlimited number of sustainability projects.
This 8-week course will be held online via Zoom this fall. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings,
October 2 - November 20, from 6pm-8pm. We never want finances to be a barrier to participation and as a result this
training is pay what you can. If you are able, a $125 suggested course fee helps to offset staff time and resources.
How to Attend:
Scan the QR code, visit naturemuseum.org/c3, or call 773-755-5128 to reserve a space.
Chicago Conservation Corps’s Fall 2024 Sustainability Leadership Training is your way to spark change in your community.
You will receive training from C3 Experts representing established organizations already doing sustainability work. After
completing the Sustainability Leadership Training, C3 Leaders become sustainability champions in their communities and
receive funds and individualized museum staff support for an unlimited number of sustainability projects.
This 8-week course will be held online via Zoom this fall. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings,
October 2 - November 20, from 6pm-8pm. We never want finances to be a barrier to participation and as a result this
training is pay what you can. If you are able, a $125 suggested course fee helps to offset staff time and resources.
How to Attend:
Scan the QR code, visit naturemuseum.org/c3, or call 773-755-5128 to reserve a space.
This powerful exploration of how activists are creatively using media to engage, activate, and organize—and the voices we still need to amplify. Featuring panelists from Girl Voter, Free Spirit Media, and Chicago Film Workshop, moderated by Maxwell Evans of Block Club Chicago.
View the Atlas cedars of Morocco, walk the urban streets of India, and see the mythical blue stag of Mexico, among other adventures.
On Saturday, Nov. 2, watch 6 short, One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest Atlantic/USA region honorable mention films online from 12 to 1 p.m. CDT, take a long break, and then see 5 more Pacific region films from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. CDT. Hear from some of the filmmakers before their films screen to learn what inspired them and the impact they hope to make with their films.
View the Atlas cedars of Morocco, walk the urban streets of India, and see the mythical blue stag of Mexico, among other adventures.
On Saturday, Nov. 2, watch 6 short, One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest Atlantic/USA region honorable mention films online from 12 to 1 p.m. CDT, take a long break, and then see 5 more Pacific region films from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. CDT. Hear from some of the filmmakers before their films screen to learn what inspired them and the impact they hope to make with their films.
Chicago Conservation Corps’s Fall 2024 Sustainability Leadership Training is your way to spark change in your community.
You will receive training from C3 Experts representing established organizations already doing sustainability work. After
completing the Sustainability Leadership Training, C3 Leaders become sustainability champions in their communities and
receive funds and individualized museum staff support for an unlimited number of sustainability projects.
This 8-week course will be held online via Zoom this fall. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings,
October 2 - November 20, from 6pm-8pm. We never want finances to be a barrier to participation and as a result this
training is pay what you can. If you are able, a $125 suggested course fee helps to offset staff time and resources.
How to Attend:
Scan the QR code, visit naturemuseum.org/c3, or call 773-755-5128 to reserve a space.
Chicago Conservation Corps’s Fall 2024 Sustainability Leadership Training is your way to spark change in your community.
You will receive training from C3 Experts representing established organizations already doing sustainability work. After
completing the Sustainability Leadership Training, C3 Leaders become sustainability champions in their communities and
receive funds and individualized museum staff support for an unlimited number of sustainability projects.
This 8-week course will be held online via Zoom this fall. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings,
October 2 - November 20, from 6pm-8pm. We never want finances to be a barrier to participation and as a result this
training is pay what you can. If you are able, a $125 suggested course fee helps to offset staff time and resources.
How to Attend:
Scan the QR code, visit naturemuseum.org/c3, or call 773-755-5128 to reserve a space.
One Earth Collective is thrilled to be a media partner with @Eco.Logic’s Eco.Crews, a program designed to build community around environmental action. If you’ve been wanting to do more for the environment, but have been unsure where to start, definitely check out this program!
Register here (https://www.zeffy.com/.../86d82d40-d5cd-4871-ab04...) and learn more below.
What is an Eco.Crew? Eco.Crews are designed to give people space to talk about environmental issues and inspire individual and systemic action, while building community.
Participants will join a small crew to meet weekly for 6-weeks starting September 18. Each crew has an expert facilitator to help guide group discussions and each week there is a new opportunity to take action. Topics range from money’s role in climate to environmental art.
Reduce stress and open up to a sense of awe, connection, and well-being with the practice of forest therapy aka forest bathing. Certified forest therapy guide Sarah Abu-Absi will lead the group in gentle mindfulness practices to reconnect to nature and ourselves. We will be sitting or laying down on the grass much of the time. Bring a blanket, chair or mat. More info at www.thatforestfeeling.com.
Please Note: This event is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required. More information will be sent to registered participants.
From Oak Park Public Library
Reduce stress and open up to a sense of awe, connection, and well-being with the practice of forest therapy aka forest bathing. Certified forest therapy guide Sarah Abu-Absi will lead the group in gentle mindfulness practices to reconnect to nature and ourselves. We will be sitting or laying down on the grass much of the time. Bring a blanket, chair or mat. More info at www.thatforestfeeling.com.
Please Note: This event is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required. More information will be sent to registered participants.
By joining this class, you declare that you are physically fit and ready to participate and understand any physical activity may involve some risk of injury. You may rest at any time during the class. It is your responsibility to consult with your physician with respect to any past or present injury, illness, health problem, or any other condition or medication that may affect your participation.
The participant assumes all risks of injury and illness that may result from such participation. The participant agrees to waive and release the Oak Park Public Library, its officers, employees, trustees, and agents and shall hold such persons/entity harmless from any and all liability for any claim, suit, or other cause of action which might arise from injuries, illness, damages, or loss which may occur on account of participation in such activities.
Reduce stress and open up to a sense of awe, connection, and well-being with the practice of forest therapy aka forest bathing. Certified forest therapy guide Sarah Abu-Absi will lead the group in gentle mindfulness practices to reconnect to nature and ourselves. We will be sitting or laying down on the grass much of the time. Bring a blanket, chair or mat. More info at www.thatforestfeeling.com.
Please Note: This event is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required. More information will be sent to registered participants.
From Oak Park Public Library
Reduce stress and open up to a sense of awe, connection, and well-being with the practice of forest therapy aka forest bathing. Certified forest therapy guide Sarah Abu-Absi will lead the group in gentle mindfulness practices to reconnect to nature and ourselves. We will be sitting or laying down on the grass much of the time. Bring a blanket, chair or mat. More info at www.thatforestfeeling.com.
Please Note: This event is limited to 15 participants. Registration is required. More information will be sent to registered participants.
By joining this class, you declare that you are physically fit and ready to participate and understand any physical activity may involve some risk of injury. You may rest at any time during the class. It is your responsibility to consult with your physician with respect to any past or present injury, illness, health problem, or any other condition or medication that may affect your participation.
The participant assumes all risks of injury and illness that may result from such participation. The participant agrees to waive and release the Oak Park Public Library, its officers, employees, trustees, and agents and shall hold such persons/entity harmless from any and all liability for any claim, suit, or other cause of action which might arise from injuries, illness, damages, or loss which may occur on account of participation in such activities.
One Earth Collective is thrilled to be a media partner with @Eco.Logic’s Eco.Crews, a program designed to build community around environmental action. If you’ve been wanting to do more for the environment, but have been unsure where to start, definitely check out this program!
Register here (https://www.zeffy.com/.../86d82d40-d5cd-4871-ab04...) and learn more below.
What is an Eco.Crew? Eco.Crews are designed to give people space to talk about environmental issues and inspire individual and systemic action, while building community.
Participants will join a small crew to meet weekly for 6-weeks starting September 18. Each crew has an expert facilitator to help guide group discussions and each week there is a new opportunity to take action. Topics range from money’s role in climate to environmental art.
Chicago Conservation Corps’s Fall 2024 Sustainability Leadership Training is your way to spark change in your community.
You will receive training from C3 Experts representing established organizations already doing sustainability work. After
completing the Sustainability Leadership Training, C3 Leaders become sustainability champions in their communities and
receive funds and individualized museum staff support for an unlimited number of sustainability projects.
This 8-week course will be held online via Zoom this fall. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings,
October 2 - November 20, from 6pm-8pm. We never want finances to be a barrier to participation and as a result this
training is pay what you can. If you are able, a $125 suggested course fee helps to offset staff time and resources.
How to Attend:
Scan the QR code, visit naturemuseum.org/c3, or call 773-755-5128 to reserve a space.
On Wednesday, October 16, 2024 from 5:30pm - 8:30pm immerse yourself in a realm of innovation and sustainability with the Eco-Friendly & Sustainable Show S/S 2025. This visionary presentation spotlights eco-conscious designs that redefine fashion's environmental impact, offering a glimpse into a greener future. Experience how designers are leading the charge in sustainable fashion, blending style with environmental responsibility to create stunning, eco-friendly collections.
Itinerary:
Doors open at 5:00pm
Cocktail Reception opens at 5:30pm
Performance: To be announced at 6:00pm
Showcasing Brand begins at 6:15pm
Concludes at 8:30pm
On Friday, October 11 · 9am - 5pm. The focus of this conference will be discussing sustainable advancement projects at each of our universities, our roles as leaders of sustainability both in our student bodies, network weaving among students from other schools, and in the city of Chicago, and how we can continue to inspire environmental justice as students.
The day will consist of: panel presentations and Q+A’s, round table discussions with students from surrounding Chicago schools, and brainstorming time to think about and prompt each of our school’s sustainability projects for the upcoming year.
Join this exciting Virtual Event for a screening & discussion of a fascinating 40-minute sci-fi film about relationship abuse— all for a great cause!
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
Film Screening: Watch The Last Drop, a 40-minute sci-fi film about relationship abuse.
Relationship Safety Talk: By Adam Joel, Writer/Director, Survivor, & TEDx Speaker.
Q&A Session: Join in for an empowering discussion about relationship health!
Raffle: Win exciting prizes, including free video editing services, giftcards, and more!
One Earth Collective is thrilled to be a media partner with @Eco.Logic’s Eco.Crews, a program designed to build community around environmental action. If you’ve been wanting to do more for the environment, but have been unsure where to start, definitely check out this program!
Register here (https://www.zeffy.com/.../86d82d40-d5cd-4871-ab04...) and learn more below.
What is an Eco.Crew? Eco.Crews are designed to give people space to talk about environmental issues and inspire individual and systemic action, while building community.
Participants will join a small crew to meet weekly for 6-weeks starting September 18. Each crew has an expert facilitator to help guide group discussions and each week there is a new opportunity to take action. Topics range from money’s role in climate to environmental art.
Chicago Conservation Corps’s Fall 2024 Sustainability Leadership Training is your way to spark change in your community.
You will receive training from C3 Experts representing established organizations already doing sustainability work. After
completing the Sustainability Leadership Training, C3 Leaders become sustainability champions in their communities and
receive funds and individualized museum staff support for an unlimited number of sustainability projects.
This 8-week course will be held online via Zoom this fall. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings,
October 2 - November 20, from 6pm-8pm. We never want finances to be a barrier to participation and as a result this
training is pay what you can. If you are able, a $125 suggested course fee helps to offset staff time and resources.
How to Attend:
Scan the QR code, visit naturemuseum.org/c3, or call 773-755-5128 to reserve a space.
One Earth Collective is thrilled to be a media partner with @Eco.Logic’s Eco.Crews, a program designed to build community around environmental action. If you’ve been wanting to do more for the environment, but have been unsure where to start, definitely check out this program!
Register here (https://www.zeffy.com/.../86d82d40-d5cd-4871-ab04...) and learn more below.
What is an Eco.Crew? Eco.Crews are designed to give people space to talk about environmental issues and inspire individual and systemic action, while building community.
Participants will join a small crew to meet weekly for 6-weeks starting September 18. Each crew has an expert facilitator to help guide group discussions and each week there is a new opportunity to take action. Topics range from money’s role in climate to environmental art.
Chicago Conservation Corps’s Fall 2024 Sustainability Leadership Training is your way to spark change in your community.
You will receive training from C3 Experts representing established organizations already doing sustainability work. After
completing the Sustainability Leadership Training, C3 Leaders become sustainability champions in their communities and
receive funds and individualized museum staff support for an unlimited number of sustainability projects.
This 8-week course will be held online via Zoom this fall. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings,
October 2 - November 20, from 6pm-8pm. We never want finances to be a barrier to participation and as a result this
training is pay what you can. If you are able, a $125 suggested course fee helps to offset staff time and resources.
How to Attend:
Scan the QR code, visit naturemuseum.org/c3, or call 773-755-5128 to reserve a space.
Austin Community & Good Food Fans! Join us for a FREE Chef Showcase and Movie Night, Wednesday 10/2 @ 5:30-9pm. Watch NBA Star Chris Paul’s & Grammy-winner Billie Eilish’s movie about food justice “They’re Trying To Kill Us.” Plus, enjoy free dinner bites, Best of the West Mac & Cheese Cook Off, garden tours, fun, freebies and hear about the new Verses & Vittles Literary Slam. At Bethel New Life, 1150 N Lamon, Chicago. Please share & invite friends! Tickets at https://bit.ly/ae-chef24
Hosted by Austin Eats: AustinComingTogether.org/AustinEats
Are you or a loved one navigating cancer? Discover how nutrition can play a vital role in wellness and recovery at an event hosted by UI Health Chicago October 1st 2024!
What to Expect:
Expert talks from leading nutritionists and oncologists
Interactive cooking demonstrations
Nutritional tips for cancer prevention and treatment
FREE bra giveaway to breast cancer survivors
To register for the event please call 312-413-0119.
From Oak Park Public Library
Interested in greening your home or lifestyle but feeling overwhelmed and not sure where to start? Come join us for this event--part presentation, part information fair--to hear stories and ask questions of your neighbors who have taken various green steps. Brief presentations will be followed by an opportunity to drop by presenters' tables to ask questions and get more information. Topics to be covered include: home audits, insulation, solar panel installation, Community Solar programs for house & condo owners & renters, heat pumps and induction cooking.
Presented by Arbor West Neighbors in collaboration with the library. Registration recommended.
One Earth Collective is thrilled to be a media partner with @Eco.Logic’s Eco.Crews, a program designed to build community around environmental action. If you’ve been wanting to do more for the environment, but have been unsure where to start, definitely check out this program!
Register here (https://www.zeffy.com/.../86d82d40-d5cd-4871-ab04...) and learn more below.
What is an Eco.Crew? Eco.Crews are designed to give people space to talk about environmental issues and inspire individual and systemic action, while building community.
Participants will join a small crew to meet weekly for 6-weeks starting September 18. Each crew has an expert facilitator to help guide group discussions and each week there is a new opportunity to take action. Topics range from money’s role in climate to environmental art.
From Oak Park Public Library
Explore the curiosities and complexities of nature, environmentalism, and sustainability through fiction and nonfiction literature. All We Can Save, an anthology edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Keeble Wilkinson, is a collection of diverse voices of women asking critical questions and providing insight and solutions. Curated by two climate leaders, this book leads us away from the brink and toward the possibility of a life-giving future.
Chicago Conservation Corps’s Fall 2024 Sustainability Leadership Training is your way to spark change in your community.
You will receive training from C3 Experts representing established organizations already doing sustainability work. After
completing the Sustainability Leadership Training, C3 Leaders become sustainability champions in their communities and
receive funds and individualized museum staff support for an unlimited number of sustainability projects.
This 8-week course will be held online via Zoom this fall. Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings,
October 2 - November 20, from 6pm-8pm. We never want finances to be a barrier to participation and as a result this
training is pay what you can. If you are able, a $125 suggested course fee helps to offset staff time and resources.
How to Attend:
Scan the QR code, visit naturemuseum.org/c3, or call 773-755-5128 to reserve a space.
