Reduce your home’s carbon footprint with incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act
An insulated, electrified home will save you money over time — and will lower your greenhouse gas emissions.
An insulated, electrified home will save you money over time — and will lower your greenhouse gas emissions.
Ms. Linton Goes to Springfield April 28, 2023 I had not been to Environmental Lobby Day in Springfield since just before the pandemic. And I do mean “just.” The last Illinois Environmental Council sponsored lobby day we went to was on March 4, 2020, and within weeks all hell broke loose in New York City;…
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How to start composting from a high rise By Cynthia Linton My climate New Year’s Resolution for last year was to start composting and to try to bring along a few others in my high-rise building. That was one of the few personal actions I had not yet taken for the climate. I began in…
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A trip halfway across the country in an EV By Cynthia Linton Like so many others, I’ve been reading stories about broken EV chargers, range anxiety, and assertions about how EVs work around town but aren’t good for long trips (largely oil company propaganda, I suspect). When I learned that Chapter Chair Tom Coleman, of…
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Changes to incentives for electric vehicles By Tom Coleman Over the long term, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 should have a significant impact on promoting the adoption of electric vehicles, as well as ramping up domestic manufacturing and boosting the domestic supply chain for EVs. The new law should also over time help to…
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Regenerative Agriculture can help save our soil, improve the productivity of our farms and draw down carbon from the atmosphere.
If you want to save money on your electric bill and are interested in supporting the growth of renewable energy in Illinois, you should sign up for community solar!
A Q&A with Jelena Collins, an organizer of the Earth Day Student Strike Protesters will meet up at Buckingham Fountain in Chicago for the strike on Earth Day, April 22 at 2:30 p.m. Learn more and sign up to attend! The following is an edited email conversation between editor Jane Goldenberg and Jelena Collins. JG:…
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How I learned to love my laundry Part II By Leah Sorini A few easy procedures can make all the difference to making your laundry more sustainable. An important first step is to sort your clothes into blacks, whites, warms and cools, according to How to Love Your Laundry: Sort your smalls, save the planet…
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You save water, energy and help your clothes last longer, which, of course, prevents you from buying more.
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