Health Check-up on Lake Michigan

Are Asian Carp in Lake Michigan? Will Alberta Tar Sands Refining impact the Lake?

Come Hear the Head of Lake Michigan EPA speak at
Oak Park Main Library
May 4 at 7pm

Judy Beck has managed the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Lake Michigan Team since October 1995. In this capacity she chairs the multi-agency lakewide management planning process called for
in the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement signed by the United States and Canada.

She is a past President of the Glenview LWV, a past Vice -President of the League of Women Voters of Illinois, and has been a Park Commissioner in Glenview for 31 years.

Sponsored by the League of Women Voters Oak Park River Forest

For more info contact Amy Little at amyelittle@yahoo.com or 708-660-1669

Austin Coming Together (ACT); Social and Economic Transformation Through Community Action

Root Riot Harambee member Ms. Catherine Jones announces that ACT’s Education Committee will meet Tuesday, May 3, at 6pm, Friendship Church, 5200 W. Jackson, Chicago. It will be an open discussion of the future of schools in the Austin neighborhood. Alderman Graham and Chicago Public Schools Area Instructional Officer Rick Mills are scheduled to attend.

GREEN COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

Announcing a new web site to facilitate sharing of ideas, information and resources for building a more resilient and sustainable community!

Green Community Connections is a new “electronic gathering place” for Oak Park, River Forest and surrounding communities, which is dedicated to helping us make the transition to a more environmentally sustainable way of living. 

Green Community Connections is a place where you can share events that your organization is sponsoring, find skill-building resources for gardening, composting, raising chickens, and more as we grow and develop. 

It’s a place where you can ask questions, answer questions, and share your experiences and challenges with adopting green practices in your home and organization.  Let us know what’s on your mind?  What keeps you up at night?  What do you want to learn about, find solutions for, talk about? 

Green Community Connections is intended to be a way for us to connect with one another and support one another in our journey toward a more sustainable life style.  Green Community Connections will be what we all make it together!  Please join in making GCC a meaningful resource for this important work! 

sally@greencommunityconnections.org

http://greencommunityconnections.org

Green + Growing Fair, Sat April 30th

GreenNet’s 19th Annual GREEN & GROWING URBAN GARDENING FAIR, Saturday, April 30, 2011, 10am-2pm. A free event at the Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park, Chicago, IL, www.garfielld-conservatory.org.

Root Riot Harambee Open House, Sunday, May 1, 2011, (1pm-4pm); an opportunity for people to visit, sign up, and early bird planting.