Cool Ride-Clean Choice Event Is Saturday!
- 10am - 4pm
- Naper Settlement, 523 S Webster (Naperville)
- free (including all of Naper Settlement)
- North Central College Green Scene members will be volunteering
See a wide variety of hybrid and alternative-fuel vehicles, learn about eco-friendly products and services available in Naperville, bid on a cordless, electric lawn mower or tickets to the Solheim Cup (and many other exciting items) in the silent auction, listen to experts on clean air and respiratory health, with fun activities for children, including a bounce house. Heartland Blood Bank will be on site from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. To sign up to give blood or to volunteer the day of the event, visit Cool Ride-Clean Choice’s website.
Community Energy, our local provider of alternative energy through the Naperville Renewable Energy Program, will provide CO2 offsets for this event with clean renewable energy generated here in Illinois, and will be present to allow attendees to sign up for the Renewable Energy Program.
Expert speakers throughout the day will include John Walton, manager of the alternative vehicle fleet at Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, as well as Brian Urbazewski from Respiratory Health Alliance and Brooke Emmerich of Edward Hospital to address the health effects of vehicle emissions. Other eco-friendly speakers, businesses and organizations will provide information on conventional car care, building energy audits, natural landscaping, solar composting, and home cleaning and personal care products.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:33 am
For those who want to use cleaner transportation to get around Chicago, but aren’t familiar with how to navigate the transit system, GoogleMap now offers directions on public transit and not just the highway/street system. I used it the other day and found it very precise and helpful.