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May 17th, 2011
Most of the 470-million-year history of plants on land belongs to bryophytes, pteridophytes (ferns) and gymnosperms. Find out about a recent pilot project to database and digitize pteridophyte fossils from the Mazon Creek assemblage of Illinois (i.e. 315 mya) as well as extant fern specimens from the Great Lakes Region.
May 02nd, 2011
Green Fire, a new movie on the life and ethic of Aldo Leopold, premiers in Chicago featuring ECCo staff.
May 02nd, 2011
Four Chicago Communities Develop Neighborhood Climate Action Projects.
April 27th, 2011
On April 16, 2011 twenty volunteers gathered at the Baker House in Michigan City, IN to learn about rare plant monitoring with the Plants of Concern Program.
April 20th, 2011
The Calumet Outdoors Series of free hiking and paddling events connects people to the vast and globally rare geology and ecology of the region.
April 12th, 2011
At a recent workshop, volunteer frog monitors learned how to identify the calls of the 13 species of local amphibians and how to collect data for the Chicago Wilderness Calling Frog Survey.
April 12th, 2011
On August 13, 2011 The Field Museum and partners will be gathering volunteer botanists and community members for a botanical foray and organized search for Thismia americana, a rare and elusive plant known only from the Calumet region.
April 08th, 2011
Calumet stewardship volunteers learn about winter tree identification at ECCo-led workshop.
March 31st, 2011
ECCo embarks on a collaboration with the Chicago Park District to install a colorful native plant garden on the Museum's north side.
March 31st, 2011
ECCo collaborated with three Energy Action Network sites in Roseland to identify what “green” means to residents and to become demonstration sites for climate action.