After eating lunch, students in Oak Park Elementary School District 97 sort their leftover food scraps into compost bins located in school cafeterias. But what happens to those food scraps after they leave the school?

Seven Generations Ahead (SGA) sought to answer that question by following those ...

SGA Executive Director Gary Cuneen (L to R); Elizabeth Doris, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Mark Burger, PlanItGreen solar consultant, and Cecilia Govrik, Kane County Resource Managment Coordinator.Seven Generations Ahead and Fox Valley Sustainability Network core partners Kane County, the ...

At the invitation of the Institute For Sustainable Communities, PlanItGreen team members who are involved in energy issues attended a "Turning Energy Data Into Action" workshop at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo.

The April 3-4 workshop was part of the Solar In Your ...

On Feb. 24, 2017, Seven Generations Ahead (SGA) coordinated a multi-school tour of the Chicago Public Schools Commercial Composting Program for the City of Chicago’s Chris Wheat, Chief Sustainability Officer, and Chris Sauve, Recycling Program Director. The tour included stops at Sandoval ...

The status of bringing solar power, community solar and its related economic and environmental justice benefits to Oak Park, River Forest and the rest of Illinois is still in the early stages.

The Future Energy Jobs Bill, including the Solar For All Illinois program, signed into law last Dec. 7, ...