Featured Stop:  Urban Stream Research Center 

Learn about the local endangered species this lab is breeding to restore waterways right in our backyard - rarely open to the public.

There are so many organizations to highlight! Among them, Winfield Middle School and Waubonsie Valley High School go green with energy projects, and York Center School eco-club students win their campaign to fight plastic pollution at school.

Twenty-eight teams from four high schools participated in this year's design challenge. These lucky students learned directly from professionals in sustainable design and toured local green infrastructure.

 If you teach at a DuPage County high school, learn how to get your students involved for 2019! The Sustainable Design Challenge can be a supplemental activity to a class, a club project (eco-club, architecture...) or be a club of it's own. Don't let your students miss out on this opportunity for another year longer!

Avery Coonley School in Downers Grove and three local businesses were awarded environmental flags in April. Learn about their achievements.

Turn your school into a real-life experiment in renewable energy! K-12 schools can apply for funding to install solar photovoltaic panels or a wind turbine. Applications are due August 28th.

Introduce your students to Rachel Carson, the author, environmentalist and activist. She also understood the importance of teaching children to care for nature writing:

"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in".

School may be out but SCARCE is open all summer long! Volunteer at SCARCE and get first dibs on the truckloads of donations being dropped off each week while supporting your favorite resource for books and supplies.

Get your students organized to help clean up our rivers! Individuals can join a group or establish a group for your school by becoming a group coordinator.

Pre-registration is required.

We will have brand-new teaching supplies available for $2 and less thanks to a generous donor. All proceeds will support our Book Rescue resource center.

Benedictine University

Cantigny

College of DuPage

Elmhurst Learning and Success Academy

Glen Oaks Therapeutic Day School

Hawthorn Garden Club

Islamic Foundation School

Lisle High School Eco Club

North Central College

SAP Fieldglass (Naperville)

St. Francis High School

St. James the Apostle

SEAL South

Wheaton North High School

Wheaton Warrenville South High School

Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

• SCARCE Book Rescue Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm All summer long!
• Lisle & Wheaton Electronics Recycling, Saturdays (Age 14+)

School-Year Hours

Mon-Fri: 9:00am-4:30pm

2nd & 4th Saturdays: 9am-12pm

Summer Hours

Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm

Saturdays June 9, July 4, Aug 11 & 25  9am-12pm

Upcoming Special Dates:
     CLOSED.....Memorial Day 05/26-05/28

Bring your teacher or non-profit ID!

*No children under 14 allowed