Wrap up Earth Month with our junky jamboree at Gallagher Way featuring artisans who transform reclaimed materials into one-of-a-kind goods and promote zero-waste activities. Shop for home goods, art, planters, fashion, body care, stuff you've never seen before and more.
Maggie Hart and Brittany Zampella/2023/19 min/Waste, Health, Justice
FILM DESCRIPTION: “A Good Neighbor” is a feature-length documentary about a Latina single mother’s fight against racism and climate change as she campaigns for city council in one of the nation’s most polluted zip codes.
Farhoud Meybodi/2023/48 min/Waste, Health, Justice, Built Environment, People & Cultures
FILM DESCRIPTION: Amidst a catastrophic plastic waste crisis in her hometown of Nairobi, Nzambi Matee risks everything to pioneer technology that transforms plastic waste into sustainable paving bricks. A former engineer in the oil and gas industry, Nzambi walked away from a lucrative career after a trip to the coastal city of Mombasa, where she discovered a sea of plastic bags and bottles in the crystal blue waters of the Indian Ocean. This inspired Nzambi to create a possible solution to the country’s plastics problem by converting waste into sustainable materials.
The short film “The Speech of Txai Surui” by the students of Escola Parque (in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) will precede the feature film. This film won two awards in the One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest 2023.
VIEW & BREW tickets for Kehrein Center: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/view-brew-w-one-earth-collective-swsw-pt-3-tickets-881167544847?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
$25 includes film, food, and beverage starting at 5 p.m.
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.
The Kehrein Center for the Arts is the product of a years-long effort to restore an architecturally-significant but unused auditorium into a vibrant fine and performing arts center, complete with a 900-seat storytelling theater, art gallery, and community gathering place. Original construction was in 1954 by Belli & Belli.
In person tickets for Unity Temple: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthbound-nzambi-matee-a-good-neighbor-unity-temple-tickets-858539353317
Doors open 30 minutes before start time.
Arrive early to talk with action partners, avoid lines and get best seats.
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.
In person tickets for Triton College: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/earthbound-nzambi-matee-a-good-neighbor-triton-college-tickets-858537668277?aff=oddtdtcreator
Doors open 30 minutes before start time.
Arrive early to talk with action partners, avoid lines and get best seats.
ADA-compliant accessible venue. Click here for more ADA details.
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Get inspired to do some spring cleaning at home, and we’ll help keep the things you no longer need out of the landfill! You can also take part in a volunteer cleanup effort with your friends and family and put litter in its place. Bags, gloves and trash grabbers will be provided. Enjoy green giveaways and learn about other ways to get involved with volunteering in the forest preserves as well as how to live more sustainably. Hosted at Groves 6 & 7.
SCARCE will be collecting books, musical instruments, sheet music, holiday lights and bread tags
AMVETS will be collecting gently used clothing, household items, sports equipment and more. (For more information, view the complete list of items accepted by AMVETS.)
Working Bikes will be accepting adult bikes in repairable condition, gently used children’s bikes, bike parts, tools, and bike accessories
Cook County Sheriff’s Office will be collecting unwanted/expired prescription pills as well as recycling select electronics including cables, cell phones / telephone devices, computers/laptops, hardware, motherboards, monitors, calculators, printers, fax machines, game systems, stereos, toasters, blenders, toner cartridges, UPS batteries, car batteries, and televisions (limit 1 per household)
Enjoy green giveaways courtesy of the Cook County Department of Environment and Sustainability
T-shirt giveaway for the first 50 participants
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
A tutorial demonstration of an at-home project to reduce waste and repurpose home goods. Audience: Teens & adults
Join on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/River-Trail-Nature-Center-101211133291824/videos/
Photo by Holly Harry/Shutterstock
From the Park District of Oak Park:
Reduce, reuse, recycle! Help keep plastic out of the landfills by bringing your plastic plant containers to a recycling drop-off event. Plant containers must meet the following criteria:
4.5” round or 4” square plastic container
1-gallon perennial plastic container
Location: Oak Park Conservatory, 615 Garfield St., Oak Park.
From the Park District of Oak Park:
Join other gardeners and share your favorite plants and extra tools at the Friends of the Oak Park Conservatory sponsored annual fall exchange. Drop off whatever you don’t need/want any more between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. at the Oak Park Conservatory, 615 Garfield St., in Oak Park. Then return at noon to pick up what you want. The event ends at 12:30 p.m.
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
A tutorial demonstration of an at-home project to reduce waste and repurpose home goods. Audience: Teens & adults
Join on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/River-Trail-Nature-Center-101211133291824/videos/
Photo by Holly Harry/Shutterstock
Graham Sheldon and Rin Ehlers Sheldon/2018/93 min/Waste
FILM DESCRIPTION: Going “circular” refers to the necessary change from our current take-make-waste linear economy to a borrow-use-return circular economy. The film is directed by Emmy® Award winning filmmaker Graham Sheldon and presented by global sustainability expert, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser. And despite its dire warnings, it is an optimistic film about innovative solutions. The documentary explores five key strategies for achieving circularity—reduce, reuse, recycle, renew and reinvent—by showcasing examples from Europe, Latin America and Africa and featuring insights from experts from the likes of the World Economic Forum and the Universities of Cambridge and Harvard.
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/closing-the-loop-a-documentary-about-the-circular-economy-revolution-tickets-149083726439
Esta película está disponible con subtítulos en español. Recibirá instrucciones en el correo de confirmación de Eventbrite antes del evento.
After the screening, stay connected to discuss the film with:
Discussion Facilitator: Kyra Woods, Policy Advisor, Office of Sustainability, City of Chicago
Panelists:
Thomas Fecarotta, Vice President of Marketing, Rheaply
Jonathan Pereira, Executive Director, Plant Chicago
Jason Feldman, Co-Founder & CEO, Green Era Sustainability
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
A tutorial demonstration of an at-home project to reduce waste and repurpose home goods. Audience: Teens & adults
Join on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/River-Trail-Nature-Center-101211133291824/videos/
Photo by Holly Harry/Shutterstock
