Love to cook and are looking for a way to compost your food scraps, but backyard composting isn’t an option for you? Try Vermicomposting or composting with worms! Vermicomposting is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint and stop food waste in your home. No backyard or large area…
Join the Illinois Peaople’s Action for a teach-in on the threat to our water posed by Hyperscale Data Centers and Carbon Capture & Sequestration (CCS). Come learn what CCS is: what Hyperscale Data Centers are: how CCS is being used to greenwash Data Centers: and how these technologies threaten the…
Clinton Lake has extensive lily pads that should be in bloom in early August. Join Central Illinois Kayaking and Floating and the Friends of Everbloom for a casual paddle and tour of the lily pads. The lily pad paddle will only be about two miles total. There is an opportunity…
The 2026 Friends of EverBloom LakesFest is Friday July 31. Kyle Yap will be playing at Green Gables from 5:30-8:30PM. As an alternative to the traditional golf outing, this year there will be a casual paddle around Lake Bloomington. Meet at 4:30PM near the boat ramps. Thanks to the Illinois…
Join Central Illinois Kayaking and Floating and the Friends of EverBloom to help clean up the Mackinaw River. Interested volunteers should meet at 10AM on Saturday July 18 at the Mackinaw Canoe Club launch in rural Carlock (exact location in event link). Rain date Sun. July 19. If the Mackinaw…
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release: July 6, 2026 Contact: Michael Brown Phone: (309) 454-3169 x.11 The Ecology Action Center (EAC) is pleased to announce a McLean County Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection event for Saturday, August 22, 2026. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is covering major costs for the HHW,…
Please sign up to volunteer for the annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection event on August 22, 2026. Volunteers will assist in various functions with the McLean County Household Hazardous Waste collection event with the primary need being traffic control. The work requires spending the entire shift on one’s feet, clear…
