Seven Generations Ahead introduced the Illinois Harvest of the Month (HOTM) program at the Illinois School Nutrition Association Summer Conference in Tinley Park, making it available to school districts across the state.

The HOTM program helps schools buy and serve more local food, while teaching ...

Seven Generations Ahead (SGA) and partners have been working at the forefront to develop a robust food scrap composting industry in Illinois. After a half-day, Chicago region GreenTown forum on food scrap composting programs and policies in Highland Park, Ill., in 2012, SGA and partners founded the ...

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 ...