2023 Farm Bill: Soil and Water Connection
Join us for a conversation about the 2023 farm bill with farmers, USDA & the Soil and Water Conservation District . July 28, 2022, at 6pm CST.
Transforming Agriculture in the Midwest
Transforming Agriculture in the Midwest highlights opportunities for Midwesterners to to reduce harmful GHG emissions from agriculture and food systems.
Growing Food and Energy: Agrivoltaics
Agrivotaics is creating a world where we can use the sun twice: once to produce power from solar energy; and the second to grow food.
EJC Blog Posts
EJC Blog Posts Eco-Justice Collaborative’s posts explore current issues around climate, sustainability, and justice. Each rejects our mission and work in each of these areas, including local, regional or statewide campaigns. Climate Legislation with Lifeline to Fossil FuelsThe IRA has made billions of dollars are now available to the fossil fuel industry for CCS, a […]
Rally to Close Prairie State Coal Plant
Central Illinois groups, including EJC, host rally in front of Sen. Bennett’s office on August 16 to urge him to support closing Prairie State coal plant.
Close Prairie State!
Urge Senator Scott Bennett to pass the Governor’s clean energy and climate bill that would close Prairie State coal plant by 2035, unless owners can show they can sequester 90% of the carbon emitted.
Nature Can Help Solve Climate Crisis
Watch this short presentation by Janine Benyus, Biomicry 3.8, to learn how nature can help us solve one of the most pressing challenges of our time.
The Gifts of Uncertainty
Drawing from deep ecology, systems theory and spiritual traditions, Dr. Macy builds motivation, creativity, courage and solidarity for the transition
CLIMATE AND ENERGY
CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE & EQUITABLE JOBS ACT DOWNSTATE CAUCUS OF THE ICJC IMMEDIATE Action Required Stabilizing Earth’s temperature to significantly reduce risks to societies now requires greenhouse gas emissions to reach net zero by 2050. The IPCC acknowledges technologies capable of large-scale removal don’t yet are still being researched. Technologies such as carbon capture and […]
Immigration, Climate, Foreclosures
Working with the Heartland Coalfield Alliance, EJC sends delegations of local activists to learn about the impact of coal mining in central and southern Illinois, which includes destruction of farmland, natural areas, and entire communities, and groundwater pollution from coal slurry and unlined pools of coal ash and sludge.
Like tar sands oil, much of Illinois’s high-sulfur coal is being exported to developing countries – which Richart argues should put to rest the argument that “all-of-the-above” development is needed for “energy independence.”