Bag It started as a documentary about plastic bags and evolved
into a wholesale investigation into plastics and their effect on
our waterways, oceans, and even our bodies.
Prairie Rivers Network would like to give a very special thanks to Champaign Surplus and Common Ground Food Co-Op for sponsoring this exciting event.
Join us at EarthShare of Illinois’ Second Annual ReVamped Eco-Fashion Show
When: Friday, May 20, from 7:00 – 11:00 pm,
Where: Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago.
EarthShare of Illinois is a nonprofit representing environmental groups in Illinois through its workplace-giving program. In supporting ReVamped you are supporting Prairie Rivers Network’s efforts to ensure clean water and healthy rivers throughout Illinois.
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Join citizen activists, award-winning author Jeff Biggers, and water quality professionals from the Heartland Coalfield Alliance for a two-day tour of southern Illinois’ coalfields.
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Participants will explore the impacts that the entire coal life cycle has on the lands, waters, health, and quality of life of southern Illinois communities. We will depart from Carbondale Saturday, April 30th at 9:00 am as a group for a driving tour of the nation’s largest new coal-fired power plant and examples of contemporary surface and underground coal mines that feed such a plant.
Sites visited will include a massive coal slurry and coal ash dump, a strip mine, areas subsided from longwall mining, and particpants will hear directly from local residents who are concerned about the effects mining has on the quality of life and health of citizens, communities and coal miners. We’ll conclude the first day of the tour at a beautiful retreat center high atop bluffs overlooking the Ohio River, with entertaining, topical storytelling and poetry reading.
We’ll begin our Sunday tour taking in the magnificent views from the bluff top at the edge of the Garden of the Gods Wilderness Area. From there we will drive down into Eagle Creek Valley to witness the devastation that occurs to the land and communities when the land is cleared and stripped away. A spectacular drive over Eagle Mountain and along the northern side of Wildcat Hills will take us out into the Saline River valley where strip mining is occurring a rapid pace.
This tour is intended for concerned citizens who want to learn what they can do to promote a just transition from a coal economy to a sustainable economy in America’s heartland.
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Interested in learning first-hand about the true cost of coal in Illinois? Join citizen activists and water quality professionals for a day-long tour of central Illinois’ coalfields.
Participants will meet in Springfield in the morning and depart as a group on a driving tour of historic and contemporary coal mining sites. The group will learn about the history of Illinois’ coal industry and organized labor, visiting the small towns where some of the nation’s deadliest labor battles were fought, as well as the only union coal mine left in Illinois today.
From there, we will explore the impacts that the entire coal life cycle has on the lands, waters, health, and quality of life of central Illinois communities. Participants will see areas subsided from longwall mining, massive coal slurry and coal ash dumps, and get the chance to hear directly from local residents who are concerned about coal’s effects. This tour is intended for concerned Illinois residents who want to learn what they can do to promote a just transition from a coal economy to a sustainable economy in America’s heartland.
The staff, board of directors, members, and friends of Prairie Rivers Network had a wonderful time at our Annual Dinner on October 29, 2010.
Here are just a few of the pictures… can you spot yourself? You can view more photos on our flickr site and tag yourself or friends.
A big thank you to Prairie Rivers Network member Erin Knowles
for volunteering her time and talent in taking all of the pictures.
