Bright Beat

04/22/2025

Take 2 minutes and show your support of legislation to FEED COMMUNITY + SOIL in Illinois. Illinois Food Scrap & Composting Coalition Chicago Sustainability Task Force The Illinois Environmental Council ZeroLandfill ChicagoRescuing Leftover Cuisine in Chicago Chicago Food Policy Action Council Food Recovery Network Chicagoland Food Sovereignty Coalition

03/26/2024

What an illuminating and inspiring meeting with Chicago Sustainability Task Force at Museum of Science and Industry, catching up with CSTF members and experiencing The Blue Paradox! It is a truly not-to-be missed exhibit.

05/24/2023

Kudos to everyone who made this inspiring event possible! Principal Parra and Chef Jeff at Carl Von Linné Elementary School, Lisa Sanzenbacher and Friends of Carl Von Linne, our amazing neighbors at Avondale Gardening Alliance, Concordia Place's Ruckus Teens Entrepreneurs, and the generous, loving community that is Chicagoland Food Sovereignty Coalition (donate your time or resources today!)

would not exist in IL if it weren't for the dedication of the crew at Illinois Food Scrap & Composting Coalition. Thanks, friends. Let's do it again next year!!

04/01/2023

Highly recommended!!

We’re excited to welcome speaker Leah Penniman, co-founder and Farm Director of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, NY, an Afro-Indigenous farm that works toward food and land justice. Her books, Farming While Black and Black Earth Wisdom, are love songs for the land and her people. You can join Penniman for a virtual program, Black Earth Wisdom: Afro-Ecological Survival Strategies on Thursday evening, April 6. Sign up now! http://bit.ly/3nbbULH

11/11/2022

THIS MONDAY: Layer up and get down with nature at We Sow We Grow at 120th & Union. A workgroup organized by Dr. Rosing at DePaul University Steans Center will support winterizing efforts at this developing urban farm. To learn more contact [email protected]
Illinois Food Scrap Coalition

08/19/2022

THIS is the conversation we need to be having to strengthen our soil + build the market for finished compost! Thanks to BioCycle for carrrying the torch on this for DECADES💚♻️🌎

YES! We gotta CLOSE THE LOOP and feed organic materials back into local soil. Looking forward to this Composting Workshop next Tuesday 8/23. Click the link to REGISTER TODAY: https://tinyurl.com/VirtualCompostUseWorkshop.

Solid Waste Agency of Lake County (SWALCO) Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County Illinois Food Scrap Coalition Winnetka Public Works Waukegan Park District The Mulch Center Midwest Organics Recycling Bright Beat Recycle by City

01/06/2022

What a great initiative, City Colleges of Chicago!!!

In other collegiate cycling news, Olive-Harvey College is, for the first time, offering an eight-week Bicycle Maintenance and Repair course.

11/05/2021

More options than ever to SMASH PUMPKINS! www.scarce.org/pumpkins/

🎃♻️THIS SATURDAY 11/6 🎃♻️
Let’s get a million pounds of pumpkins out of landfills and back into the Illinois soil that produces 90% of the world’s pumpkins!! See list of Chicago locations or PLEASE find a SMASH near you at: www.scarce.org/pumpkins/

CHICAGO:
Plant Chicago 4459 S Marshfield Ave
Gary Comer Youth Center 7200 S Ingleside Ave
Chicago Vocational High School 2100 E 87th St
Lake View High School Chicago 4015 N Ashland Ave
Chicago High School Agricultural Sciences 3857 W 111th St

Pumpkins must be free of candles, stickers, glitter, yarn, synthetic decorations. They CAN be decorated with water-based paints.

SCARCE, University of Illinois Extension, LRS, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Department of Streets & Sanitation Illinois Food Scrap Coalition

11/03/2021

Webcast has been inspiring all day... excited to be hearing directly from Ellen MacArthur on among so many other luminaries and vital issues. https://unfccc-cop26.streamworld.de/program

10/28/2021

“You must be ready for change, empathetic to how the pandemic is impacting different people differently, and never lose sight of the core principles that you operate by, like reducing waste, buying locally, and supporting the communities that we live and work in.”
Great perspective from Doug Bradley, SAVOR McCormick Place, an Illinois Food Scrap Coalition partner:
https://illinoiscomposts.org/case-studies/sustaining-partner-spotlight-savorchicago-at-mccormick-place/

08/11/2021

Great WTTW Chicago Tonight piece on local label Numero Group featuring inspirational Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth For Christ Choir!

Tucked away in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, there’s a record label breathing new life into forgotten music of the past.

07/14/2021

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