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Resilient Communities Forum Offers Climate Action Options

Resilient Communities Forum Offers Climate Action Options

The Resilient Communities Forum on Jan. 31 at the Nineteenth Century Club drew 175 residents from Oak Park and River Forest. They heard from municipal and environmental leaders on ways nations and communities are addressing the challenges of climate change.

We Can Be the Spark That Keeps Climate Action Ignited

We Can Be the Spark That Keeps Climate Action Ignited

When 195 countries signed the Paris Agreement in December of 2015, it was an unprecedented expression of global solidarity on climate change.

The Administration's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement is a serious blow to that international accord. This is the first time in my memory that the U.S. has become almost universally viewed as a rogue nation.