Mountain communities in the heart of Appalachia are engaged in a high stakes fight to save their land, water and way of life from mountaintop removal coal mining. Join us on Wednesday, October 19th at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign YMCA at 7:30pm when Appalachian Voices comes to Champaign. Appalachian Voices is an award-winning, environmental […]
Events
Coalfields to Clean Energy Student Tour
On Saturday October 1st, over 55 students from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, the University of Illinois Chicago, the University of Chicago, Depaul University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Loyola University, and the University of Iowa all boarded a bus to hear directly from community members and organizations in central Illinois’ […]
The Beehive Collective: Art Meets Activism at the IMC on October 6
A swarm is coming! The Beehive Design Collective will present a Graphic Workshop and Picture-Lecture at the Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center on October 6, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. to release their long-anticipated “True Cost of Coal” graphic campaign! This innovative graphic is a visual exploration of Mountaintop Removal coal mining and Resistance. Two years […]
Bag It: Plastics in the Environment
Guest Blog Post by Dr. Walt Kelly, Groundwater Geochemist Read Walt’s Blog: Water Quality, Focus on Illinois The award winning documentary Bag It will be shown at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign on Tuesday, September 20, 2011, at 7 PM. I have seen the film and highly recommend it. It starts out as a critical […]
Bag It – Is your life too plastic?
Prairie Rivers Network invites all of our members and friends to a special showing of Bag It. 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 […]
