Promoting healthy and sustainable communities
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CREATING
bikeable and walkable communities -
BUILDING
a local sustainable food shed -
DRIVING
economic development environmental conservation and social equity -
DEVELOPING
policy systems and infrastructure for healthy communities -
ADVANCING
a renewable energy economy -
CONVERTING
waste into new production -
PROMOTING
economic development through a sustainability lens -
ENHANCING
natural ecosystems -
CONSERVING AND PROTECTING
our water quality
Our Impact
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August 23, 2017Popular craft beer festival continues its zero waste tradition
Under a perfect cloudless sky, more than 3,500 people—some from as far away as Belgium and Sao Paulo—poured through downtown Oak Park on Saturday for the 10th Annual Oak Park Micro Brew Review. This year, featuring more than 200 unique ...
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August 11, 2017Seven 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 ...
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August 7, 2017Seven 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 ...
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June 27, 2017After 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 ...
