Sustainability

The Repair Cafe event will be held from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Oct. 19 at the JJC’s Romeoville campus. Repair Cafés are a global movement of community spaces where volunteers share their skills by fixing items for free.

Public comment being sought; deadline for comments is Sept. 9.

The $30 million facility in Bolingbrook is expected to open some time between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 following the buildout of the existing site.

Nearly 50 people attended a two-day hands-on workshop at the Northern Illinois Hemp Hub in Maple Park to demonstrate the use of hempcrete in building materials.

Illinois Municipal Electric Agency is urging St. Charles and other Illinois municipalities to enter into a new power sales contract that would extend the agreement through May 2055.

Volunteers of a global nonprofit organization invested in sustainability at a tree planting event in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie.

Joliet Junior College held its first official Repair Cafe on Saturday at its Romeoville campus Saturday after testing a pilot event at its main campus in October.

Joliet Junior College will be hosting its first official Repair Cafe event on Saturday as part of its month-long recognition of Earth Day.

DeCarbon DeKalb and other environmental friendly groups will be putting on the inaugural DeKalb County Earth Fest April 18. Organizers said the event promises to have something to appeal to a wide audience.

Some suburban golf courses are trying to be more sustainable. by conserving water and more.

Victor Hanson won the DuPage County-wide competition that encourages students to submit entries based on the tenets of sustainable design, which is focused on making construction more environmentally friendly and economically viable.

Area youth got their hands dirty Wednesday learning about insects, composting and the role worms play in sustainable food production during the kickoff of a day camp run by the DeKalb County Community Gardens.

Area proponents for solar energy in DeKalb County held a community conversation Monday to advocate for ways to utilize the alternative energy resource in everyday life.

Opinion: Planting native habitats will help re-create functioning ecosystems that support native wildlife and help provide them with the most sustainable habitats, writes Kyle Moore of the DeKalb Citizens' Environmental Commission.

A community-wide cleanup in DeKalb gathered folks together Friday morning through Northern Illinois University’s Cares program to help pick up trash, part of a rescheduled Earth Day event.

A DeKalb-area community clean-up was postponed for a week due to strong storms on Earth Day last Friday, and is now rescheduled for this Friday, April 29.

Trash Squirrels, a local cleanup group, is proud to announce their third season of trash clean up events, beginning on April 9, DeKalb group member Julie Jesmer writes. Here's how else you can get involved in local ways to help heal the earth:

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Members of a new Sustainability Ad Hoc Committee in Oregon are planning to start with the basics when it comes to bringing green initiatives to the city.