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These are just a few of the takeaways from Earth Week for Everyone organized by Citizens’ Greener Evanston last week.
A panel on Greening Evanston’s Schools included three young Evanstonians: Dalston Wooller, a fourth-grader at Washington Elementary School, Nyel Rollins, an eighth-grader at Chute Middle School, and Aldric Martinez-Olson, an Evanston Township High School graduate now attending Macalester College.
Mr. Martinez-Olson noted, “The first step to any type of change starts with education.
Sustainability Consultant Becky Brodsky, co-founder of the District 65 Green Teams, shared a number of ways that students can learn by doing.
… Seeing that firsthand helps.” The group also made filters to clean dirty water, planted things, and made bird feeders.
As a panelist on the topic of Green Business Brainstorm for Entrepreneurs of Color, he said, “my kids steered me into more conscientious practice.
Chef Q Ibraheem and Gabrielle Jean-Paul Walker both talked about healthy eating, emphasizing the importance of education and sourcing food locally, whenever possible.
A number of speakers on different panels talked about Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse.
In “Beyond Waste,” Michelle Redfield talked about circular cities that mimic nature, where the output or waste of one process becomes the input to another.
Maia Teke, a green entrepreneur from San Francisco, joined the Talking Trash panel and talked about eliminating the need for disposable containers for food.
They reached out to Dispatch as part of their launch and after lots of positive media coverage, they have doubled their weekly container needs.
Ms. Rollins told participants about a new Quest for Earth program to encourage people to do more.
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