Hello EEC friends, community members, and environmental stewards. Below in this message you will find the May 12th meeting agenda with associated materials, community connections, save the dates, and in case you missed it. 

On Wednesday, we will be sharing our new strategic intentions, looking ahead to what's in our action plan for the summer, continuing the conversation from our town halls, and receiving project updates.

We look forward to seeing you soon!


MEETING AGENDA

View the agenda below for our monthly meeting on Zoom. We strive to keep the meetings to an hour and sometimes the conversation extends us to an hour and a half. 


Wednesday May 12th, 9am
 Meeting ID: 829 1770 2982 
By Computer: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82917702982 
By Phone: +13126266799,,82917702982# US


We look forward to seeing you!

VIEW AGENDA AT THIS LINK

SIGN IN SHEET

​Meeting Prep​

WE WILL BE SHARING OUR UPDATED STRATEGY WITH STRATEGIC INTENTIONS FOR THE NEXT 5-10 YEARS.

YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM BOB WITH TURNSTONE STRATEGIES WHO HELPED US DEVELOP THEM.

RENEE, TRICIA, BURTON, ALLEN, AND KILLIAN WILL SHARE WHAT THEY ARE! WE ARE EXCITED TO SHARE THEM WITH YOU AND HEAR WHAT YOU THINK.

THE PLASTICS INITIATIVE LAUNCHPAD
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CHECK OUT WATER-FOR-ALL IN CHICAGO
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CHECK OUT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY COALITION FACEBOOK AND THIS Q&A FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY RESOLUTION FOR COOK COUNTY

IN JUNE: PHOTO PROJECT, FARMERS MARKETS, NEIGHBORHOOD CLEAN UP, SUMMER SOLSITCE, A NEW EDGEWATER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE GRANT!

Save the Dates​

5/12: FIRST ANDERSONVILLE FARMERS MARKET
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5/22: VEDGEWATER WORK DAY 10AM-12PM
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HOLLYWOOD/OSTERMAN/ARDMORE BEACH STEWARDSHIP
KICKS OFF 5/2 10:30–12:30P
RECURRING SUNDAYS ON
6/13, 7/25, 8/29, 10/10, 11/21 

WEST RIDGE STEWARDSHIP: WORKDAYS THIRD SAT. 10 AM 

Community Connections
Thanks for everyone who came out to our 1st beach stewardship day of the year!


In Case You Missed It

TOWN HALLS
View post-meeting recap and materials here​.
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FLOODING ISSUES
Submit your site or spot with flooding issues in Edgewater using this survey form. This information will be used by EEC to advocate on water and flooding issues in the neighborhood and prioritize areas for tree and native plantings.

Hello Friends and Neighbors! 
Happy Earth Day! Check out the info bellow and join us for our Earth Day actions tomorrow and throughout this next week.
This past week, we passed a resolution supporting the Chicago Inclusive Housing Ordinance. We sent a message to Alderman Osterman, the Chair of the Housing Committee, and asked for his support of Affordable Requirements Ordinance reform. See highlights and summary for the full recap.
We hope you will join us for our Transportation Town Hall on Tuesday April 27th and our next coalition meeting on Wednesday May 12th.

VIEW THE MEETING SUMMARY HERE
In cased you missed it, check out the meeting recording: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/gsUsuVtHAP7LImipO0xs9PPWThs9oKID7bgIAEZzUvAgFYJJkk2M6_Bh4l_yz0Ik.1Hl24eNbXRYb1p_J Passcode: 0P%lS@xE

Highlights

• Voted to support Chicago Inclusive Housing Ordinance, and sent out a letter of support following our meeting. Check out the letter of support here.
• Discussed Earth Day events including Beach Stewardship, Clean and Greens, and our Social Media action.
• Burton is looking for individuals to help with resource building, writing how-to guides, and writing about environmental topics for the new website. If you are interested in helping research or write reach out to him!
• The Peterson Garden Project's Vedegwater community garden is reopening this year! Thanks to everyone that met with other community leaders to make this happen.

Town Hall Tuesdays
Please join us for a series of Town Hall discussions with community experts and innovators to explore Chicago's most pressing issues to create a sustainable future. 
The fourth and final Town Hall is on April 27th at 7:00pm on zoom on the topic of Transportation. 
Click on this link​ to register and get more information!
To join use: ​https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82125674211?pwd=MXhBc3NobXJ6U2RZSUhaNjhXRzhHUT09 Meeting ID: 821 2567 4211 / Passcode: 612083

Community Connections
Go green by sharing extra grocery bags and egg cartons with Care for Real. Care for Real is our neighborhood food pantry. They could use strong plastic or reusable grocery bags to help their clients who need another bag to bring their items home. They also need empty egg cartons to repack eggs that may have broken in the egg carton they've received them in. These donations can be brought to the back door at 5339 N Sheridan between 12pm-3pm Monday through Saturday. If you have questions, please send an email to info@careforreal.org. Thank you.

Indigenous Peoples' Day Coalition - Illinois
Follow along & learn more. 
Edgewater History Museum Reopened
http://www.edgewaterhistory.org/ehs/
Illinois Food Scrap Coalition's International Compost Awareness Week Lunch & Learn Series 2021 5/3-5/7
Find out more & register Here
UIC Earth Month Activities 
sustainability.uic.edu/earth-month-2021/
One Earth Film Festival Earth Week Showings
All here: www.oneearthfilmfest.org/earth-day

Save the Dates

• 4/22: Earth Day
• 4/24 Neighborhood & Vedgewater Clean Up
• 4/30: Arbor Day
• Recurring Town Halls: 4/27: Transportation
• 5/12: Next Wednesday Monthly Meeting, 9:00am
• 5/2 10:30–12:30p - Recurring 6/13, 7/25, 8/29, 10/10, 11/21 - Hollywood Beach Stewardship
• West Ridge Stewardship: Workdays third Sat. 10 AM. Nature Walk on April 18th, 10 AM.
• May 12th: First Andersonville Farmers Market

In Case You Missed It

​Water, Waste & Housing Town Halls
View post-meeting recap and materials here.
Litter Free Edgewater Signup
Sign up for our Litter Free Edgewater campaign, which was started in honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, here. 
Flooding Issues?
Submit your site or spot with flooding issues in Edgewater using this survey form.This information will be used by EEC to advocate on water and flooding issues in the neighborhood and prioritize areas for tree and native plantings.
Plastics Initiative Launchpad
​A hyper-document where you can find all the information about the EEC Plastics Initiative and follow an action plan to support it. Check the launch pad out here.

After being closed in 2020, with diligent advocacy & support from EEC, the Peterson Garden Project (PGP), Loyola, the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce, Edgewater Neighbors North Block Club and the 48th Ward Office, Edgewater's largest community garden, Vedgewater, is reopening this year! 
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EEC has joined PGP as a community partner and will be working on exciting new projects in the space this year and into the future. We have committed to partner with Loyola, PGP, and the 48th Ward in rebuilding and re-opening Vedgewater, involving the community in soliciting funds for re-building and water costs in coordination with PGP’s fundraising efforts, and to be a resource and partner for community involvement in the garden, and partner in environmental programming. 

Some ideas we have are about informational signage, community tables for discussions & education, communal plots for a commons that grows food, education and community. Also, experiments with sustainable planting, indigenous planting, composting, permaculture, bioremediation, seed keeping & composting with wider volunteer engagement with our community & Loyola students.
Please reach out and connect with EEC to get involved with these!

PLOT REGISTATION IS LIVE, THEY WILL GO FAST. SIGN UP BY CLICKING HERE.

RSVP for garden clean up on Saturday 4/24 here
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​Special thanks to
Rebecca Rico
Troy McMillian
Renee Patten
Tricia Van Eck
Brian Haag
Dan Luna
Jennifer Clark
Summer Roberts
Cecilia Rodriguez
Christina Pfitzinger
Chris Evers
If you see these people around, please thank them!

Hello Friends and Neighbors! 
This past week, we passed a resolution supporting the Indigenous Peoples' Day Coalition and discussed the significance of honoring Indigenous peoples in our EEC work. 
We also talked about action plans for Earth Day, how to keep our food waste in our food system, and more! See highlights and summary for the full recap.
We hope you will join us for our Housing Town Hall on Tuesday March 30th and our next coalition meeting on Wednesday April 14th.

VIEW THE MEETING SUMMARY HERE

Highlight

• Voted to support Indigenous Peoples Day in Cook County, and sent out a letter of support following our meeting. Check out the letter of support here.
  
• Had a successful Litter Free Edgewater day.
  
• Burton is looking for individuals to help with resource building, writing how-to guides, and writing about environmental topics for the new website. If you are interested in helping research or write reach out to him!
  
• Discussed efforts to open the lakefront and beaches.

Community Connections

• Extra Containers?
  Save your large yogurt, sour cream, etc. containers and let a Chicago farm reuse them! Chicago Lights Urban Farm will be reusing as many 24oz or larger containers as we can provide. The farm will grow and sell plants in them for a summer sale. The farm requests all containers by April 16th. 
  Each container we collect is one less pot the farm must purchase and one less piece of waste immediately entering the landfill .
  Contactless container pickup can be coordinated OR drop-off @ 5615 N Glenwood Ave #2. To coordinate pickup/delivery or ask questions, contact Jonathan:  jjacks92@gmail.com or (225) 288-2772.  
• Flooding Issues?
  Submit your site or spot with flooding issues in Edgewater using this survey form.
  This information will be used by EEC to advocate on water and flooding issues in the neighborhood and prioritize areas for tree and native plantings.
• Plastics Launch Pad
  A hyper-document where you can find all the information about the EEC Plastics Initiative and follow an action plan to support it. Check the launch pad out here.

Save the Date

• Recurring Town Halls: Tuesday evenings - 3/30: Water + 4/27: Transportation
  
• 3/27: Earth Hour, Saturday, March 27, 8:30 to 9:30pm 
  
• 4/14: Next Wednesday monthly meeting, 9am
  
• 4/17 & 4/24: Earth Day Neighborhood Clean Ups
  
• 4/22: Earth Day
  
• 4/30: Arbor Day
  
• 5/2 10:30–12:30p - Recurring 6/13, 7/25, 8/29, 10/10, 11/21 - Hollywood Beach Stewardship
  
• West Ridge Stewardship: Workdays third Sat. 10 AM; Bird Walks 8 AM: Mar. 27th & April 10th (for each the rain date is the following day); Nature Walk on April 18th, 10 AM.
  
• May 12th: First Andersonville Farmers Market
  

In Case You Missed It

• Waste Town Hall 
  View post meeting materials and recap here.

Hello EEC friends, community members, and environmental stewards. Below in this message you will find the March 10th agenda with associated materials, community connections, save the dates, and in case you missed it. 
On Wednesday, we will be discussing Earth Day and water actions we can take collectively together, plus hear several project and initiatives updates! 
We will also taking time to continue to build out conversations and actions following our housing town hall. What follow-ups should we take? How do we continue the conversation with the presenters, innovators, and attendees? 
We look forward to seeing you soon!


MEETING AGENDA

View the agenda below for our monthly meeting on Zoom. We strive to keep the meetings to an hour and sometimes the conversation extends us to an hour and a half. 
Meeting ID: 829 1770 2982 

By Computer: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82917702982 
By Phone: +13126266799,,82917702982# US
We look forward to seeing you!


VIEW AGENDA AT THIS LINK
SIGN IN SHEET

Meeting Prep.


REVIEW THE PLASTICS INITIATIVE LAUNCHPAD
​

THINK ABOUT WHERE YOU HAVE SEEN FLOODING ISSUES RECENTLY
​

CHECK OUT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY COALITION FACEBOOK AND THIS Q&A FOR THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY RESOLUTION FOR COOK COUNTY


Save the dates. ​


RECURRING TOWN HALLS: TUESDAY EVENINGS
RSVP HERE

NEXT EEC MORNING MEETING: 4/14/21, 9AM


3/27: EARTH HOUR
SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 8:30 TO 9:30PM ​


HOLLYWOOD/OSTERMAN/ARDMORE BEACH STEWARDSHIP
KICKS OFF 5/2 10:30–12:30P
RECURRING SUNDAYS ON
6/13, 7/25, 8/29, 10/10, 11/21 


Community Connections


One Earth Film FestivalIf you love movies and you care about your health, your community and our magnificent planet we call home, join [YOUR ORGANIZATION’S NAME] at the tenth anniversary season of the One Earth Film Festival, which takes place from March 5–14, 2021.
This year’s festival theme is “10 Years of Inspiring Change,” and you’re invited to watch more than 25 outstanding short and feature-length films that shine a light on the most important issues of our time. Learn solutions and actions addressing climate, environmental justice, conservation, waste and more. Watch online from the comfort of your own home, and participate in filmmaker and expert Q&As. Be moved. Be amazed. Be ready to create change.  
Most film watch parties are free (suggested $8 donation). Advanced registration is highly recommended. Visit oneearthfilmfest.org for a festival schedule and to reserve your tickets.

FREE Loyola Climate Change Conference hosted by the School of Environmental Sustainability
Across the country, youth climate activists are mobilizing people to protect the planet. In 2021, Loyola's Virtual Climate Change Conference will focus on how we can amplify the voices of these young activists.

This year, we will be delivering you our signature conference through a weeklong series of evening events and programming. Each evening, you can join us and participate in discussion around a variety of topics including:

- Mar 15, 2021: The Climate Change Crisis: Global Migration, Race and Youth Advocacy
- Mar 16, 2021: Art as a Platform for Climate Advocacy
- Mar 17, 2021: Indigenous Youth and Environmental Activism
- Mar 18, 2021: Keynote Panel: Conversations with Youth Climate Activists; Keynote Panel, Pt. 2: Accompanying Youth to a Hope-Filled Future--An Intergenerational Effort

This conference is FREE of charge thanks to the generous support of our donors. To learn more, visit: www.LUC.edu/climatechange



In Case You Missed It


WASTE & HOUSING TOWN HALLS
View post-meeting recap and materials here​.


READY FOR 100 #POWERUP
First summary from our #PowerUp series and we look forward to updating it as well!
https://readyfor100chi.org/powerup/