It's our neighborhood environmental and social justice group near the Chicago River by Montrose and the surrounding neighborhoods.

We are grassroots. Our main volunteers and leaders have arisen from community events to clean up the river and establish organic and native gardens within our neighborhood.

We are a diverse group. If you are young or old, renter or homeowner, a hardcore environmentalist, or someone who just don't like to see resources wasted, Beyond Today is meant to be useful to you.

Beyond Today was started by members of the Riverbank Neighbors in January of 2003 as part of our effort to stop the war and to work on broader environmental and social justice issues.

The Environmental Neighborhood Project is our main project at this point. We have come to realize that through our work for Riverbank Neighbors, a wonderful community has formed. This community has a high level of knowledge about the environment and issues facing us, it has a high level of practice of environmental ways of living, it has strong social ties and working relationships. We think this is a special opportunity to form a community which intentionallly seeks a way to be Chicagoans who don't destroy the earth, but protect the natural resources upon which we rely for the happiness and survival of our children's children.

We are working together to examine every little bit of our way of life and question it- from the cars we try not to drive, to the pesticides we don't want to use, helping each other to figure out a healthier way to live.