City Sprays Pesticide Tuesday and Wednesday in many neighborhoods
Please alert your neighbors and forward this email to those who wish to receive alerts.
Click here for the spraying schedule and areas.
This pesticide, Anvil, has not been tested for long term risks. The pesticide industry has a dire history of promoting pesticides as "safe" only for them to be later banned as dangerous. The volunteers of Beyond Today believe that this mistake should not be repeated.

We believe that it is wrong to develop new chemicals of this nature and then test them on the entire population of Chicago.

We also with to remind Chicagoans that Clark Chemical, of Roselle, Illinois is making millions of dollars and thus, encourages fear of West Nile Virus, which is actually a very rare illness which only affects those with weakened immune systems, like the flu. Read more and sign the petition

Start saving your energy bills. We are working on a project where residents will use their energy bills to chart their energy savings as we work together to find ways to lessen our impact on the planet. We'll also look for ways to bring green energy to our neighborhood.

• Photos
  • Riverbank Workday
  • No-Spray Street Theater
• The Green Neighborhood Project is progressing very well!
• We invite you to join the conversation about how we can, as a neighborhood, commit to do our part to stop global warming and for the planet. Beyond Today is organizing a series of small meetings on to solicit input. Please join the Green Neighborhood list to learn more or email us your ideas.
• We are looking for people who would like help turning half or all of their lawn into an organic native garden. This is good for pesticide reduction, general health (especially asthma) water conservation, and butterflies! Click here for more information...

Tip of the week:

Beyond Today is going to be placing bulk orders for energy efficient light bulbs.

Let us know how many you'd like and of what type.

What is Beyond Today?

It's our neighborhood environmental 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 you just don't like to see resources wasted, Beyond Today is meant to be useful to you.

We are creating a Web-based neighborhood environmentalism photo album, virtual march, video documentary, and downloadable pod-cast recordings to enable us to share our environmental beliefs and practices.

If you live in our neighborhood, please take a moment to let us know if you are interested in joining this effort in some way.