Tents lined the field of Ingraham Park from 12 to 3 p.m. Saturday for the Evanston Ecology Center’s Earth Day and 50th birthday celebration. The Ecology Center has held Earth Day Fests for more than a decade. The celebration has evolved throughout that span, said Conservation and Outdoors Division Manager Margaret Isaacson. With the Ecology.
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As Evanston residents strolled into Eggleston Park on Saturday, they were met with a range of autumn games, refreshments and activities at the city’s first Evanston Harvest Festival. Presented by the Evanston Ecology Center, the festival brought residents together to enjoy the changing seasons with crafts, a pumpkin patch, live music and an array of.
To Co-Leader Tim Sonder (Medill ’83), Edible Evanston is all about connection. By connecting residents to food sources, the earth and Evanston, the nonprofit aims to promote community through food growing and sharing. Edible Evanston was born in 2013 as one of the top 10 ideas to improve the city proposed by Evanston 150, a.
For the past two years, Earth Month celebrations in Evanston took place on Zoom. As the city hosts more in-person events, Rachel Rosner, board president of Citizens’ Greener Evanston, said this year’s Earth Month will bring back the collaborative spirit of the city’s climate movement. “It’s like a reunion of the environmental community,” Rosner said..