The Ecology Action Center presents the annual McLean County Green Awards to recognize local efforts to improve our environment. Nominations are now being accepted for the 2021 awards, with recipients being named at an online event on February 9, 2022. The McLean County Recycling and Waste Reduction Award identifies businesses,…
Do you want to power your home with clean, renewable solar energy but can’t or don’t want to bother with a rooftop installation? Community Solar may be for you! Companies managing community solar arrays approved by the Illinois Power Agency in early 2019 are now actively seeking customers for community…
Proper Leaf Management For many Bloomington-Normal residents, leaf-raking efforts are already underway. While raking leaves isn’t rocket science, some leaf-raking practices can be harmful. Raking leaves into the street clogs storm drains, causing street flooding; if they don’t clog but rather wash down into the storm drains they become a…
Explosive. Corrosive. Flammable. Toxic. A comprehensive description of 2020? No. Well, maybe. But these terms do capture another topic of imminent concern: Household Hazardous Waste. Household hazardous wastes are substances that can harm human health or the environment. This year McLean County residents have been carving out space for home offices…
The Ecology Action Center announced Monday that four Bloomington-Normal nonprofit agencies are among the first in McLean County selected for solar projects through the Illinois Solar for All program. The solar projects were selected on Wednesday, September 9, and are subject to the approval of the Illinois Commerce Commission in…
PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release July 13, 2020 Contact: Michael Brown 309-454-3169 x.11 McLean County’s recycling rate stayed relatively steady from 2018 to 2019 with only a 1.4% decline. The Ecology Action Center’s annual calculation of community-wide waste generation and recycling shows that the County reached a recycling rate of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 11, 2020 CONTACT: Michael Brown, 309-454-3169 ext.11 The Ecology Action Center condemns the inordinate use of force against people of color across the country. The EAC recognizes the disproportionate impact of pollution and other…
April 22, 2020 Schedule of Events 10 a.m. McLean County State of the Environment Panel Discussion Live 50 years ago the modern environmental movement was launched on the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970. This single event turned around a dangerous decline in environmental conditions impacting public health and the…
