Welcome to CLC's Go Green Web Site!
Visit here regularly for news and tips related to the college's efforts to promote environmentally responsible practices.
Stories about recycling, energy savings, water savings, native landscaping, vanpooling/mass transit and green building
- Environmental Action Committee: Lighting retrofits, approval for butterfly garden top accomplishments for 2008-09
- Education to take wing in new butterfly garden
- Fixing eco-friendly cars: Sabbatical to research training methods, assess CLC's program
- Green thumbs up: New campus garden yields veggies, flowers and camaraderie
- Fall courses, workshops teach green practices
Living green: 25 simple ways to help the planet
- Bag the brown bag—Bring your lunch in reusable containers rather than disposable brown bags.
- Lose the plastic bags, too: When shopping, use re-usable canvas bags rather than the plastic ones that not are made from fossil fuels but also litter the landscape.
- Everybody in the 'pool: Carpool to campus: It reduces fuel consumption, exhaust emissions, wear and tear on pavement and road congestion.
Stories on what the Student Environmental Club is doing
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Upcoming Events
- Nov. 23—Lunchtime seminar: Winterizing Your Home, noon – 1 p.m., Room C003 at the Grayslake campus. Al Levandowski, refrigeration/AC/heating instructor, will offer tips to reduce air leakage. No registration is necessary.