Chicago, IL Midwest Grows Green Midwest Grows Green accomplishes large scale behavior change by sharing pesticide and fertilizer reduction information at critical places where lawns influence our lives.
Chicago, IL Openlands Openlands protects the natural and open spaces of northeastern Illinois and the surrounding region.
Chicago, IL Alliance for the Great Lakes Alliance for the Great Lakes works to conserve and restore the world’s largest freshwater resource, using policy, education and local efforts.
Chicago, IL Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum This organization works to grow its region’s urban connection to the world of nature and science through collaborations, education, research and collections, exhibitions, and public forums.
Chicago, IL Environmental Law & Policy Center ELPC develops and leads strategic environmental advocacy campaigns to protect natural resources and the environment with a focus on the Midwest.
Chicago, IL Friends of the Chicago River Friends of the Chicago River seeks to improve and protect the Chicago River system for people, plants and animals.
Chicago, IL Gardeneers Gardeneers cultivates customized school garden programs to ensure each space, and the students and communities who care for it, connect with healthy food and grow to their full potential.
Chicago, IL Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) LVEJO works for environmental justice in Little Village, seeking self-determination for immigrant, low-income and working-class families.
Chicago, IL Organizing Neighborhoods for Equality: Northside This organization builds collective power to eliminate injustice through community organizing, developing grassroots leaders and acting together to effect change.
Chicago, IL Urban Rivers Utilizing innovative solutions to rehabilitate urban waterways across the globe, Urban Rivers is working to restore 3,500 feet of the Chicago River on the eastern seawall of the North Branch Canal.
Vienna, IL SAFE: Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing Our Environment SAFE seeks to prevent fracking and other fossil-fuel extraction, and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in southern Illinois.
Chicago, IL Elliott Donnelley Chicago Chapter of Trout Unlimited This group works to conserve, protect and restore North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.
mar4 6 pm Chicago, IL, United States RSVP Chicago Conservation Corps Spring Leadership Training #4 Chicago Academy of Sciences/Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum The Chicago Conservation Corps is now recruiting for its Spring 2021 Sustainability Leadership Training Series. Learn from community and environmental leaders about urban sustainability challenges and opportunities for change, then lead a sustainability service project in your community with support and resources from the Nature Museum. To participate in the RSVP
mar22 8:30 am Grand Rapids, MI, United States RSVP Tickets Adding an Organic Lawn Care Service to Your Business Midwest Grows Green In this training webinar, Chip Osborne, the Founder of the Organic Landscape Association, covers the essential components of an organic lawn care service program and how to meet or exceed the expectations of your clients. Following this training, organic lawn care companies Organic Lawns by LUNSETH, Good Nature Organic Lawn RSVP Tickets
mar24 8:30 am Chicago, IL, United States RSVP Tickets Improving Soil Health on Sports and Recreational Fields Midwest Grows Green This workshop invites managers across the Midwest to share their efforts to improve soil health and the microbiome on sporting fields. The morning features preliminary microbiome research and work by Dr. Paul Koch, Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin and Dan Dinelli, Golf Course Superintendent for the North Shore RSVP Tickets
mar25 8:30 am Chicago, IL, United States RSVP Tickets Viable and Safe Alternatives to Glyphosate Midwest Grows Green The impact of glyphosate’s “probably carcinogenic to humans” classification by the International Agency for Research on Cancer reverberated across the landscaping and natural resource management sector. In the face of increasing glyphosate bans and restrictions, this MGG Lawn & Land Forum workshop identifies the alternative structures, practices or products available RSVP Tickets
Chicago, IL, United States Take the Midwest Grows Green Pledge! Midwest Grows Green Take the pledge to eliminate or reduce synthetic chemical use on your own lawn and/or garden and at all locations where children, pets, and wildlife live and play. Sign Petition
Chicago, IL, United States Federal: Fully Fund Land and Water Conservation Openlands LWCF is the primary source of federal money that pays for improvements to public lands. One pending bill would require the Fund’s full annual appropriation to be used only for supporting the LWCF. Sign Petition
Chicago, IL, United States Plastic-Free Great Lakes Pledge Alliance for the Great Lakes Researchers have found stunningly high amounts of tiny plastic pieces in all five Great Lakes, which provide drinking water for 40 million people. Take action to stop plastic pollution. Sign Petition
Chicago, IL, United States State: Protect Illinois’ Endangered Species Openlands Special interests are proposing to permanently weaken Illinois’ Endangered Species Protection Board by deferring wildlife protections to Federal agencies controlled by the Trump Administration. Sign Petition
Chicago, IL, United States Support Federal, State, & Local Laws that Protect Birds Openlands Ask your elected officials in Congress, Springfield, and Chicago City Hall to pass bird-friendly policies. Sign Petition
Chicago, IL, United States Save the National Monuments Openlands National Monuments protect ecologically unique areas, they enshrine our national history, and they preserve the heritage and culture of indigenous nations. Sign Petition
Chicago, IL, United States Federal: Oppose Rollbacks to the Endangered Species Act Openlands This will inevitably destroy critical habitat that Openlands and others are seeking to restore and protect with proposed laws in the balance like the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. Sign Petition