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SEP.6 (Sat)
Recycling Drop-off Day and
Household Waste Recycling Facility
Tour
 at 1150 N. North Branch St. on Goose Island.
Meet for the tour at 10:00 a.m. SHARP at the entrance to
the recycling center. You can unload your recycling before the
facility tour, but please be ready for the tour promptly at 10:00
a.m.
Bring ANY AND ALL household hazardous materials and
electronic equipment (not just computers) for recycling.
See the dropoff
list for information about what materials
are accepted. It’s going to be fun to watch our collective
recycling donation disappear into this fabulous new facility. It
would be great to help DOUBLE the center’s intake for a single
day. Plan to arrive a little early if you have materials to drop
off.
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SEP.20
Montrose Beach and Dunes Sweep - International Coastal Clean-Up
The Sierra Club is joining with
the Ocean Conservancy in participating in this Global Beach
Clean-up, an effort held around the world on Sept. 20th to
improve beach & water quality. We will be focusing this day
from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon on combing Montrose Beach.
Join
fellow Sierrans for this cleanup while spending time at one of
the nicest beaches in Chicago. In conjunction with volunteers
from the Chicago Park District, we also will be doing
restoration of the Montrose Beach Dunes. Meet at the Montrose
Beach House. This event also has the potential for
good bird watching during this period of fall migration.
Directions and MORE ...
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on-site organizer volunteers especially needed
to arrive at 8:00 am and/or stay until 1:00 pm to facilitate set-up and tear-down of the tents
and tables; loading of the
equipment, as well as helping with the sign-in crunch anticipated
for the
first hour of the event; also helping volunteers with supplies and
marking data sheets throughout this 10:00 to noontime event.
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SEP.8 Air/Energy Committee Meeting
Come join the fight against global warming. For more information or to
join, please contact co-chairs Tony Fuller at
arfarf13@sbcglobal.net
or Cynthia Linton at
CLinton914@aol.com
or come to a meeting. All meetings start at 6:00 pm
at
the Sierra Club's Illinois Chapter offices at 70 East Lake
Street, 15th Floor.
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Make 2008 the
Year of Living Responsibly |
The Chicago Group challenges all of
its members
to make simple changes in their every day lives in 2008.
They'll be lots of YLR opportunity to learn more about the
environment and more importantly, to do more to improve it.
Read about ways you can participate and the rewards that
can be earned, ranging from a CFL bulb to $1000 toward a
Sierra Club outing of your choice.
NOTE: Record your own YLR
actions at any time using the online
Activist Action Entry to
give yourself credit toward these rewards. |
• About the Challenge
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Calendar of Events
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Volunteers Needed
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Record Your YLR Action |
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Social Committee Events
(select date for details)
SEP.11
Chicago Environmental Book Club
– meets at the Book Cellar bookstore at 4736 N. Lincoln
at 7pm. Our next discussion topic is Applying Economics to
Environmental Policy. Instead of a book, all our readings
can be found on the Internet.
SEP.17 Nature Photography Discussion Group
Calling all photography buffs. Come join us for a fun
evening of discussing nature photography. Our first few
sessions will cover camera basics, but photographers of all
levels of experience will enjoy the different exercises.
SEP.21 Organic Apple Picking, Fennville, MI
Join us for a fun day of picking organic apples in
Michigan. Nothing compares to the taste of fruit picked just
as it ripens on the tree. We'll take a trip to Fennville, MI,
just 2 1/2 hours away. We'll meet for lunch at 11:30am at a
restaurant that bakes pies using locally grown ingredients.
Afterwards, we will drive to the orchard and pick from several
varieties of organic apples.
SEP.23
Oak Park Environmental Book Club
– meets at the Oak Park Public Library, 834 Lake St. at
7pm. Our next discussion topic is Applying Economics to
Environmental Policy. Instead of a book, all our readings
can be found on the Internet.
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