Rain-or-Shine join SCARCE for a fun day out with the family! Learn - shop- play - eat. Come for the STEAM activities, food, eco-vendors and educational booths. Featuring a
visit from PBS's Nature Cat!
Teachers get your students involved in this project! SCARCE wants to work with HS/college students to create foreign language educational videos on the smart grid and energy efficiency. Equipment provided. Cash prizes.
Starting in September 2017, you won't find antibacterial soap on store shelves. Find out why the FDA made this decision and how it protects human and environmental health.
Join SCARCE and the Illinois Food Scrap Coalition at this free forum to discuss current food scrap composting programs and how to expand them in our state. Program will highlight the new food donation law for schools.
Don't let your jack-o-lantern languish in a landfill, drop it off at a pumpkin collection to turn it into nutrient-rich compost to feed Illinois' soils. Find a location near you!
Check out some local leaders in green! Roselle helps residents recycle, a hotel diverts leftovers, Wheaton scouts support SCARCE, and Cass School District is leading by example.
Lead poisoning is the most preventable environmental disease in young children. Find out best practices, get training materials, and spread awareness with resources from the Centers for Disease Control.
In September, SCARCE held two workshops for teachers: watershed model and natural resource globe. The workshop gave teachers tools to use in the classroom and 2 PDs.
Bats are important pollinators and help keep bugs at bay in our communities. Bat Week highlights this and more with webcasts from the Bat Squad and "Pulling for Bats" events.
Litter. It's ugly. It's dirty. Nobody likes it but everyone sees it. Pick-Up 5: SCARCE's easy-to-participate initiative to reduce litter in our communities...
The calendar is filling up! Check out our programs and call to schedule hands-on programming for your classroom. Earn your Earth Flag, Ecology Flag, or Water Quality Flag this year! Have questions? Need something customized to your curriculum?
Give us a call!