The most eco-friendly takeout container is the one you bring from home
Help protect the Great Lakes and ditch single-use plastics with these four tips when you eat out.
Tell The Home Depot: Preserve the boreal forest
The Canadian boreal forest is the largest remaining primary forest on the planet. It stores 300 billion tons of carbon, provides habitat for threatened boreal caribou, billions of birds and a multitude of other species.
Clean water to drink and clean air to breathe; healthy lakes, rivers and forests; sources of energy that don’t pollute and never run out — all this should be the heritage we leave to future generations.
The Latest
STATEMENT: Biden administration takes steps to protect Arctic from drilling
Jewels of the sky
Updates
Renewable energy provided one quarter of nation’s electricity
Ocean sanctuaries get photo-ready
It’s time for power plants to clean up their act
What You Can Do
Tell the governor: Electric vehicles are good for climate action & government budgets
Beach cleanup to protect the Great Lakes
Join us on September 23rd to clean up Chicago's North Ave beach.
IN-PERSON
North Avenue Beach House, 1501 N. Jean-Baptiste Pointe DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60610
Electric vehicles are good. We can make them better.
There are many possible futures for electric vehicles - some of them better for the environment than others. Here are seven ways to make EVs even greener.
In Illinois alone, more than 300,000 residents are projected to join us in installing solar panels in the coming years.
Senator Durbin, Illinois
I love working to solve these issues because water is integral to every part of life.Lauren Justice, Environment Illinois Research & Education Center Protecting Our Waters Intern
We must protect our waterways and prevent further pollution
I wanted to talk with you about a purchase I do not regret - it is buying a Chevy Bolt EV.
