Want to learn more about how food waste impacts our environment and what you can do to help? Join "The Dirt on Composting" presentation at El Paso District Library in El Paso, IL on May 5, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. to learn more and help celebrate International Compost Awareness Week! This...

Squirm and learn: a kids guide to vermicomposting is hosted by the Ecology Action Center and the Carlock Public Library as part of International Compost Awareness Week. Bring children grades 2nd and up to the Carlock Public Library on Tuesday May 6, 2025 at 5:30pm to learn about vermicomposting! Students...

All are welcome to join the Museum and Bloomington Public Library on Tuesday, May 6 at 7:00 p.m. for the second History Reads Book Club for 2025, in person at Bloomington Public Library or online via Zoom. The second book to be discussed this year will be Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of...

Want to learn more about how food waste impacts our environment and what you can do to help? Join the Composting Basics presentation at Gridley Public Library in Gridley, IL on May 7, 2025 at 6:00 p.m. to learn more and help celebrate International Compost Awareness Week! This presentation will be...

What happens to your landscape waste after it is picked up from the curb? In honor of International Compost Awareness Week, join Ecology Action Center and Jason Lindbom of the ISU Farm to learn how composting works, what gets composted at the farm, and what you can do to help...

The tallgrass prairie ecosystem is one of the rarest ecosystems in the world. It’s home to plants uniquely adapted to their soil microorganisms, precipitation, pollinators, and light conditions. On May 12 at 7pm Sydney Metternich will talk about how prairie plant species are adapted to their soil microbial communities and...

Available for sale will be a variety of central Illinois native plants that will provide blooms for the entire growing season! These plants will help support hummingbirds, bees, butterflies and more. A tentative list of plants for sale is available at https://illinoisprairie.wildones.org/nativeplantsale/. Availability subject to change. Chapter members get a...