A public/private initiative to voluntarily improve air quality in the Chicago metropolitan region
what can I do to help...
learn cost effective ways to reduce smog causing emissions.
continue your everyday life and still help reduce dangerous ozone levels.
leading by example, exercising your authority, and influencing economic development and land use decisions.
News
- Clean up your act around the house naturally Cheap or no cost: Items are already in your kitchen 6/18/09
- Oak Park Anti-Idling PSA 6/17/09
- Idling Gets You Nowhere "rap" with students from Oak Park 6/17/09
- Oak Park hosts green fleet expo 6/12/09
- Cutting Emissions & Idling at Verizon You Tube
- Idling Sucks PSA
- Its Not Cool to Idle at School You Tube Video
- New Idling Gets You Nowhere PSA
- US wants to paint the world white to save energy 5/26/09
- McDonald's Corporation publishes a video on their participation in Clean Air Counts 5/21/09
- St. Lawrence O'Toole seventh and eight graders publish utube videos about native plants and a video about energy conservation 5/21/09
- Batavia takes steps toward being 'greener' 5/21/09
- Clean Air Counts Member Benedictine outlines steps toward going 'green' 5/14/09
- Shepley to hit path for CL Bike with the Mayor event 5/12/09
- Oak Park kicks off "Idling Gets You Nowhere Campaign" 4/22/09
- HUGE Pressence, Tiny Footprint: Blogger Kerrie Kelly on the Merchandise Mart 4/22/09
- Oak Park Passes ordinance ammending Business Licenses and Fee Schedule to encourage use of alternative fuels and pollution control devices 4/14/09
- Des Plaines Kicks Off Idling Gets You Nowhere Campaign to reduce unnecessary idling 4/9/09
- US wants to paint the world white to save energy 5/26/09
Events
Green Pays on Green Days is back!! The Green Pays on Green Days program was created to help Chicago-area residents understand how individual actions impact the quality of the air we breathe. Complete the form on the Partners for Clean Air Website and tell them what you can do to help. You'll be entered for a chance to win a new Toyota Prius, donated by Your Chicagoland Toyota Dealers.
Go helmet-to-helmet with other teams to see who is the greenest and healthiest company in Chicagoland in the 2009 Bike Commuter Challenge.The Bike Commuter Challenge is a competition between teams from companies, organizations and divisions to have the highest percentage of employees to bike to work during Bike to Work Week,
Save the date for the Clean Air Counts Annual Clean Air Counts Luncheon.
Welcome New Members
- Triarc Development, LLC
- Arbor Printing & Graphics, Inc.
- Village of Lake in the Hills
- The Anti-Cruelty Society
- Village of Wheeling
- Solberg Manufacturing Inc