The 2023 Illinois Solar Tour will take place in a hybrid format on September 30.

Join Sierra Club Illinois’ Chapter PAC on Wednesday, September 13, for a night of food, fun, and chess—all in support of the committee's work to elect environmental champions up and down the ballot.

Textiles are a major source of microplastics polluting our waters. Petroleum-based plastic is used extensively in mass-manufactured textiles, from our clothes to our bed sheets to our recreational gear. The pollution they create is everywhere. 

The US Supreme Court recently submerged some protections for watersheds, ruling that protections of the federal Clean Water Act of 1972 applied only to wetlands with “continuous connection with an ocean, river, stream or lake.”

For five days in late July, volunteers from Woods & Wetlands and two other groups talked with visitors at the Lake County Fair about protecting open spaces. They also gathered hundreds of petition signatures to protect the Waukegan Savanna and...

School is back in session across Lake County—and so too is the Woods & Wetlands Sunday Speaker Series. The dynamite fall lineup begins on September 17, with a presentation on Lake County's newly designated old-growth forest.

If you live in Vernon Hills (zip code 60061), you can help now to reduce plastic waste: Sign a petition asking the Village Board to place a 20-cent fee on all single-use paper and plastic bags.

Whether you work outside or are planning a summer getaway, you need to know how to stay safe in this season's extreme heat. Get helpful tips and learn about equitable solutions in two new articles from Sierra Magazine.

Kildeer is one of a few Illinois communities that ban many types of solar energy systems. Some residents will meet on Tuesday, August 1, to learn more about the benefits of solar power and challenging the ban.

Forty-seven chimes rang in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, Canada, on July 6 as residents and members of Illinois’ La Coalition Rail Safety Campaign marked lives lost after a horrific oil train wreck 10 years ago.