America Recycles Day
KEB promotes recycling at local
businesses for America Recycles Day, November 15. More
info
Adopt A Spot
Keep an Evanston location litter-free
year round. More info
Bake
Sale
Held at the Evanston Farmers'
Market, in September, from 7:00 a.m. until everything is sold. more
details
Annual Meeting
Keep Evanston Beautiful's annual meeting will be held Sunday, September 21, 2008, at the Ecology Center. The Walter Lucansky Environmental Stewardship Award will be presented and the 2007-08 Officers/Board of Directors will be installed.
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Earth Day
Contest
The
2006 Earth Day Contest Awards ceremony was held May 11, at the Civic
Center. City Manager Julia Carroll presented the awards. Click
for list of essay winners.
18th Annual
Garden Walk
KEB's
2007 Garden Walk will be Sunday, July 1. The Garden Walk Committee is
making plans for this year's event. Click on the link below for photos
of gardens on past garden walk tours. See
photos.
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KEB Green Team
The educational team of
Keep Evanston Beautiful, which is comprised of parents, educators
and citizens involved in environmental programming for our children. More
info
Recycling
Initiatives
KEB encourages computer printer
inkjet cartridges recycling by providing postage-paid envelopes for
proper disposal at locations throughout Evanston. KEB's Green Team also
supports SWANCC's athletic shoe recycling program in our schools during
April. Also, old cell phones may be dropped off for recycling at the
Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick Blvd. or Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave.
More info
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School Garden Initiative
The KEB Green School Team supports
environmental awareness by encouraging school gardens in all Evanston
schools. Schools are eligible to apply for "seed money" to
start or support their gardening projects. More
info
Trashbusters
Week
Held in April during Earth
Month we clean up a winter's worth of litter. This is a great event
for groups or individuals to volunteer a couple of hours of time
and gain great satisfaction. More info
Walter Lucansky Environmental Stewardship
Award
Awarded annually to a person
who has shown through personal action his or her commitment to
preservation of natural resources. This award is named after an
Evanston citizen who firmly believed "that one man's junk
is another man's treasure." More
info
Inkjet cartridge recycling -
introduced in 2000
Environmental Field Trips -
introduced in 2002
Athletic Shoe recycling -
introduced in 2003
Cell
Phone recycling - introduced in 2003
Please visit
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