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…
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…
The EAC launched Green Reads, our first community-wide book club, in April 2020 in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, and as a way to build community during the pandemic. The purpose of Green Reads is to create opportunities to build knowledge, deepen commitments, and take further action…
The Town of Normal and the City of Bloomington participate in municipal aggregation, which allows them to select and alternate energy supplier for Ameren residents. Both municipalities currently use MidAmerican as the current supplier, in a contract that expires at the end of June 2020. Both have selected Homefield Energy…
