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Environmental Activists to Discuss How Grassroots Coalitions Can Work to Combat Causes and Effects of Climate Change
Area Environmental Activists to Discuss Ways Communities Can Work Together
to Create Sustainable Environments
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February 12, 2016 - Three local leaders will present their experiences and suggestions for addressing environmental challenges facing our communities at a forum sponsored by the Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy. Molly Flanagan, Vice President Policy, at the Alliance for the Great Lakes, Eleanor Revelle, President of Citizens’ Greener Evanston and Beth Drucker, Co-Facilitator CONSEG (Consortium of North Shore Environmental Groups) and President of the Board of Trustees of Go Green Wilmette will describe how grassroots coalitions can collaborate on combating the causes and effects of climate change.
Their focus is on taking collaborative actions to control flooding, drought, polluted aquifers and waste management while improving the quality of the areas air, water and food supply
The event will be held:
Sunday, February 21, 2016
2:00 pm
Stevenson Center on Democracy
25200 N. St. Mary’s Rd.
Mettawa (Libertyville), IL
Admission - $15
Free for Students who Pre-register at
info@stevensoncenterondemocracy.org
Since its founding 40 years ago, Alliance for the Great Lakes has worked to conserve and restore the world’s largest surface freshwater resource through policy, education and citizen involvement. Citizens’ Greener Evanston is an environmental organization that primarily focuses on strategies for reducing carbon emissions and increasing community sustainability. The mission of CONSEG is to encourage and support the establishment of citizen’s environmental groups in every community on Chicago’s North Shore to share best practices among the groups and to collaborate on addressing environmental challenges that cross village boundaries.
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The Adlai Stevenson Center on Democracy is an independent, non-partisan, not-for-profit organization. The ASCD operates out of the Adlai E. Stevenson Historic Home as a licensee of the Lake County Forest Preserve District. The license does not imply the District’s endorsement of specific ASCD positions or presenters.
