Go Green Barrington Advocates for the Future
The Go Green Barrington (GGB) team gathered at Chessie's last week to review current sustainability initiatives and discuss new business. This group of forward thinking local advocates rallies residents, businesses and government bodies throughout the Barrington area to raise environmental awareness and to take action to make a difference.
Each step by each person in the community is a step closer to making the Barrington area a cleaner, healthier place to live and create a better future. Check out some of their agenda items:
Green Drinks continues to draw attendees with great speakers in local venues. The February event led by the Shedd Aquarium's Conservation Education Outreach Advocate, Sarah Tulga, included lively discussions about how to select sustainably sourced fish when shopping or dining out and nano-plastics polluting our waterways and soil.
Join Green Drinks next on February 26th, at 7 pm in The Loft at McGonigal's Pub, 105 S Cook St, Barrington for a presentation by Chris Ancor of the Urban Coyote Research Project about the current coyote population in the area.
A free movie! The 8th annual One Earth Film Festival comes to Barrington 1 p.m. on March 9th, at the Catlow Theater, 116 W Main St, Barrington. GGB is partnering with the Barrington Area Library to host this year's one hour long film RiverBlue, narrated by clean water advocate Jason Priestley following international river conservationist, Mark Angelo, as he "spans the globe to infiltrate one of the world's most pollutive industries, fashion." Please pre-register at http://bit.ly/1EarthFilm.
GGB representatives continually meet with local conservation groups as well as sustainability directors of surrounding towns to benchmark opportunities and plan to meet with Barrington officials about forming a sustainability committee for the village.
The team continues to advocate for "no straw" at local restaurants - you can help: ask your server to skip the straw when you dine out. Per the Shedd the Straw program, "a single plastic straw might not seem like much, but the 500 million straws Americans use every day add up to a big problem for our oceans, lakes and rivers. These single-use plastics can't be recycled, and once they're in the environment, they never disappear, harming aquatic habitats and wildlife."
Check out gogreenbarrington.org for more information and join them at their next meeting on March 5th, 6 p.m. at the Onion Pub, 22221 N. Pepper Rd, Lake Barrington.