Directory of EGG Green Advocates

Below is our list of EGG, Green Advocates and various green action links in alphabetical order.

Our goal is to strengthen our green community, share resources, showcase our EGG Green Advocate actions and events, magnify our power for change by supporting each other, pooling our educational resources, offering a platform for Native American original peoples of Earth and other marginalized voices of to be heard, by slowing down to be in deep Listening to Earth herself.

Visit the advocate links listed on this page to advance actions being taken on behalf of our environment and consider joining and participating in opportunities (events-activities-meetings) of these like-minded efforts.

If you or your organization would like to be listed as an “EGG Green Advocate” and be included on this page, please reach out to us in one of these two ways: Contact Form HERE or reach out to our chair Kathleen at 331-276-3433. We’d be happy and honored to include your information. We need the power of community now more than ever.

Elgin Sustainability Commission: https://elginil.gov/2469/Sustainability

Elgin Climate Action and Resiliency Plan

Local Region NP Organizations

Chicago Wilderness: We bring together leaders, experts, and conservation professionals at all stages of their careers to share diverse voices and perspectives, and to work toward a common vision: creating and protecting a vibrant, accessible region where people can nature thrive.

Chicago Living Corridors: Chicago Living Corridors promotes the idea that private landowners can be vectors for change by restoring wildlife habitat on their land and creating habitat corridors between protected conservation areas in order to reverse diminishing biodiversity, the loss of ecosystem services, and the negative effects of climate change.

Chicago Area Peace Action: Chicago Area Peace Action (CAPA) works to promote justice and peace by educating and mobilizing Chicago Area residents and students to promote human and planet oriented policies.

City Of Elgin Sustainability Action Plan: The Sustainability Commission is made up of nine community volunteers and one student representative. The commission was created to assist the city and promote sustainability for the city.

Citizens Climate Lobby – IL Fox Valley: Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a climate change organization that exists to create the political will for a livable world by enabling individual breakthroughs in the exercise of personal and political power.

Climate Mobilization Project: Our Mission TCM is building power for a national transformation that rapidly restores a safe climate and creates a just and democratic society. Our vision is a safe climate, democratic society, and just economy where all communities and the living world flourish for generations to come.

Climate Action Museum in Chicago: The mission of the Climate Action Museum is to activate a tipping point on climate mitigation in the Chicago region through education, stimulating critical thought, and inspiring and facilitating action.

Conservation Foundation: The Conservation Foundation is one of the region’s oldest and largest not-for-profit land and watershed conservation organizations dedicated to preserving and restoring open space, protecting rivers and watersheds and promoting stewardship of the environment in northeastern Illinois.

CUB Community Solar in Illinois

Elgin Earth Month: What’s happening for Earth Month in Elgin

Elgin Allies: Elgin Allies has many volunteer opportunities for individual residents, students, business groups, churches, and service clubs interested in giving back to the community.

Elgin Area CAN (Climate Action Network) FB page: Our mission: To “push the wheels” of change for urgent, effective climate action in Elgin, Illinois

Elgin Area Sustainability Forum – coming soon

Environmental Defenders: Since 1970, the Environmental Defenders of McHenry County have had many successes in helping to make McHenry County a healthier place in which to live. From the formation of the McHenry County Conservation District to curbside recycling, from the regulation of gravel mining to the passage of the Illinois Groundwater Protection Act, the Defenders have been at the front line.

Environmental Law & Policy Center: The Environmental Law & Policy Center is the Midwest’s leading environmental legal advocacy organization. We drive transformational policy changes with national impacts.

Friends of the Fox River: The mission of the Friends of the Fox River is to preserve, restore and protect the Fox River Watershed’s resources by connecting people with nature through education, research, restoration and advocacy.

Fox River Ecosystem Partnership: he Partnership is a diverse group, made up of landowners, businesses, non-profit organizations, agencies and governments within the Fox River Watershed region.

Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice: Fox Valley Citizens for Peace and Justice strives to promote a culture of peace, a stronger democracy, a healthy environment, and social and economic justice through education, dialogue, and action. We believe growing global corporate domination is the main obstacle to achieving these goals

Fox Valley Electric Auto Association: We promote efficient and clean electric vehicle use and educate the public on these issues. We help our members to become electric vehicle drivers.

Fox Valley Sustainability Network: The Fox Valley Sustainability Network works on environmental, economic and quality of life issues and projects within the Valley.

Greater Kane County Wild Ones: The mission of Wild Ones is to promote native plants, natural landscapes, and environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities.

Kane County Connects

Start In Your Yard: Start In Your Yard advocates for a profound but simple change to address an underlying cause of the crises we’re seeing all around us. That cause is our disconnection — from the Life of which we are part, from ourselves, from others

Save Our Illinois Land: Save Our Illinois Land is a coalition of community members and landowners across the state that is concerned about the impact of pipeline infrastructure on Illinois’ land, waterways and our fellow Illinoisans.

Seven Generations Ahead: To build environmentally sustainable and healthy communities, and tackle the climate crisis with solutions that are bold, equitable and just.

Sierra Club Illinois Chapter: We work primarily through grassroots organizing. We believe in the power of talking to people, energizing our neighbors, lobbying legislators, and electing climate champions in order to pass environmental legislation and build victories at the local, statewide, and national levels. We hope you’ll join us!

Shared Harvest: Shared Harvest is a community owned grocery store coming to Elgin with affordable, healthy, and locally-produced food. (reasonably priced, healthful, organic local foods-products)

Traditional Nutrition: We meet online monthly to encourage one another and explore holistic living inspired by Dr. Weston A. Price and other like pioneers.