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3rd Quarter Wild Onion now available online. Note that the 4th quarter Wild Onion issue will only be available electronically. MORE...

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.  MORE ...

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.
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Day-of 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. MORE ...

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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. MORE...  
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
      •  Volunteers Needed

         •  Record Your YLR Action

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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 Chicago Sierrans Outdoors Events

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OCT.11 Bike to the Botanic Gardens, Glencoe, IL
 
OCT.11-13 Canoeing and Kayaking Pere Marquette River,
Baldwin, MI
 
OCT.25-26 Annual Halloween Campout, Indiana Dunes, IN
 

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