COP28 Dispatch from Gary: Day 2

Six Chicago area high school students are headed to Dubai this fall for this year's UN Climate Summit, COP28. They…

Recent heat, drought, and air quality issues in the Chicago area underscored the vital importance of this year’s GreenTown: Climate…

Local food procurement for school districts in Illinois just got easier, to the tune of $7.3 million. The USDA’s Local…

What do you do when you want to reduce lunchroom waste at your school, but your waste hauler can’t provide…

From left to right: Park District of Oak Park Executive Director, Jan Arnold, Seven Generations Ahead Executive Director, Gary Cuneen,…

Seven Generations Ahead’s Zero Waste Schools (ZWS) program is celebrating another successful launch at a local school. The ZWS team…

Photo courtesy of E-town Sunrise Facebook page By Milo Slevin, ETHS studentAs youth climate advocates, our connections with other young…

On March 14, 2023 Lincoln Park High School (LPHS) in Chicago Public Schools, a school of 2,060 students, officially launched…

The latest Go Green Illinois meeting was on all things green schools, and SGA’s Becky Brodsky was there to talk…

COP27 youth delegate and Chicago Public School teacher, Greta Kringle (left) and IOF program consultant Rachel Rosner (right) finding a…

By Emmet Ebels Duggan, IOF Youth Delegate For those that attended the livestream, I confess that this dispatch is very…

Manolo Avalos, IOF Youth Delegate, with climate scientist Dr. Katharine Hayhoe. By Manolo Avalos, IOF Youth DelegateThere seems to be…