Home Sustainability 

The ​Edgewater Environmental Coalition (EEC)  has collaborated with businesses and organizations to provide resources for the Edgewater community on making their homes clean, green, and safe! 

Citizens Utility Board


When the Illinois General Assembly created CUB in 1983, it gave the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization a clear mission: to represent the interests of residential utility customers across the state. The statute directs CUB to carry out that mission by intervening in rate-making proceedings before the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), in the courts and before other public bodies and by providing consumers with information and assistance regarding their utility companies.

Since its inception in 1984, CUB has been doing just that—working for lower rates and better service from the state’s investor-owned electric, gas and telephone companies. Over the years, CUB has saved consumers more than $20 billion by blocking rate hikes and winning consumer refunds. Click here to view the CUB Act, which created the Citizens Utility Board.

COVID-19 information:
https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/blog/2020/03/24/if-you-are-struggling-to-pay-your-utility-bills-these-resources-can-help/  (struggling to pay your bill blog)

https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/covid19consumerprotections/  (consumer protections during COVID-19 crisis)

Additional resources:
https://citizensutilityboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/OnlineGasElectricGuide.pdf  (gas and electric guide)

https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/introduction-to-rooftop-solar/ (intro to rooftop solar)

https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/clean-energy-jobs-act/ (Clean Energy Jobs Act)

https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/community-solar-illinois/ (community solar)

https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/comed-hourly-pricing-program/(hourly pricing)

https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/electric_peaktimesavings/ (peak time savings)

https://www.citizensutilityboard.org/energy-efficiency-programs-comed-customers/ (ComEd EE)
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​Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance
MEEA Realtor Resources
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Community Charging 
Community Charging
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Certasun 

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Certasun Packet
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HodgePodge

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HodgePodge is a hauling and storage company, focusing on sustainability and security!


See their services and impacts here​.
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Collective Resource Compost

Collective Resource Compost is a woman-owned, Evanston-based business that has been making composting easy since 2010. We do that using a container-swap model that can be used privately in 5-gallon buckets or communally in one of our 32-gallon Neighbor Totes. All our customers do is collect their food scraps and we do the hauling and container washing. 

Diverting your food scraps is something simple you can do to mitigate climate change by keeping your food scraps out of methane-producing landfills. We’d love to welcome you into our composting community!
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