Volunteer-based Go Green Illinois came to life 10 years ago. It has since expanded to more than 20 local 'Go Green' organizations across the suburbs, such as Go Green Northbrook and Go Green Arlington Heights.
While volunteering at her daughter's school in Lincolnshire in 2019, Seema Keshav noticed the uneaten food that was getting sent to the landfill each day.
Volunteer-based Go Green Illinois came to life 10 years ago, and has since expanded to more than 20 local"Go Green" organizations across the suburbs, such as Go Green Northbrook and Go Green Arlington Heights. The Go Green Illinois network was instrumental in showing Keshav what other communities are doing and what the possibilities are for being more environmentally sustainable in her own community, she said.
"Our mission is really to help with collaboration and providing information so that environmental groups can be more effective at the local level," Go Green Illinois co-facilitator Kim Stone said."There's a lot of action that can take place at the local level that can have a big environmental benefit, but if you're working on the local level and you're working alone, it's not very effective. Or, sometimes it is, but not always.
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