"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. " - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
Each of our actions for sustainability are indeed drops of water, flowing in a river that brings sea-change. Here are ways to help you learn more about some of the topics addressed by One Earth Film Festival films, and more importantly – to help you take action now. . . . Got other ideas to add to this list? Email us now.
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Be a Green Kid
- US Environmental Protection Agency: Student's Guide to Global Climate Change
- KidsHealth's Be a Green Kid initiative
- Chicago Wilderness Alliance's Leave No Child Indoors initiative
Be a Green Parent
Be a Smart Green Consumer
Build Green/Run a Green Home
- Green Building: Building the future with intention
- US Green Building Council's Green Home Guide
- US Green Building Council
Compost
Conserve Energy
Conserve Water
- Metropolitan Planning Council & Openlands: What our Water's Worth
- Food and Water Watch
- Water Use it Wisely: 100 Ways to Conserve
- Yes! Magazine's Water Solutions issue
- The Story of Bottled Water video
- Support IL Bill HB4496 to update IL plumbing code to account for greywater systems (safe residential reuse of some water)
Drive Less
- Active Transportation Alliance: Chicago's Voice for Better Biking, Walking and Transit
- Drive Less Live More: An Alternative Way to Travel Through Life
- Walkscore
Eat Sustainably
- The Sugar Beet Food Coop website and Facebook page
- Food Patriots film project
- The Local Beet ezine and blog
- Sustainable Table: Educate, Activate, Cultivate
- Whole Living's How to Eat Sustainably
- Local Harvest: Real Food, Real Farmers, Real Community
Grow Organic Food & Gardens
- Organic Gardening's Beginner's Guide to Organic Gardening and Farming
- The Daily Green's How to Start an Organic Garden
Keep Bees
Join Your Community in Sustainability Projects
- Green Community Connections e-newsletter signup (& sustainability project opportunities in Oak Park/River Forest/Chicago)
Learn about Biofuels
Learn about Overconsumption
Learn about Population Control
Plant/Adopt/Protect Trees
- Rainforest Rescue Coalition
- Openlands' tree planting initiative
- Openlands' historic oak tree propagation project & tree adoption program
Raise Chickens
Recycle Anything
- Earth911: Find where and how to recycle
- How to Recycle Anything, an A-Z guide from Real Simple magazine
Reduce Waste
- 101 Ways to Reduce Waste from Pima County (AZ) Department of Environmental Quality
- About Zero Waste from Grrn Grassroots Recycling Network
Remove Toxins
- How to Make Green Cleaning Recipes That Really Work, Rodale Institute
- Forbes Magazines' The Most Toxic Home Products
Start a Community Garden/Get a Community Garden Plot
- Community Gardening Toolkit, University of Missouri Extension
- Fulton Street Community Garden (Chicago's West Garfield Neighborhood)
- Root Riot Urban Garden Network (Oak Park & Chicago's Austin neighborhood)
Stop Mountaintop Removal for Coal
Support “The Story of Change” (a new project from the award-winning Story of Stuff)
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