OUR CAUSE: REDUCE STORMWATER DRAINOFF & REPAIR OUR PRAIRIE HABITAT
The reason we started Prairie Protectors was to make sure we could plant enough prairie plants to help stop the excess rain water from causing flooding and destroying the ecosystem.
Enter In Competitions
If you are passionate about environmental issues, try entering your project in competitions where you can learn how to expand your idea and potentially win grants to fund your work.
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Check out some of these opportunities:
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Participate In a Local Cleanup
If you want to help preserve your local environment try participating in a local clean up to get rid of plastic.
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In the Chicago area, contact
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Or, gather a couple friends or family members and start your own. Anyone can do a cleanup!
Places to look are near parks, retention ponds in sub-divisions, along the road or at your school. If you are by traffic or water, you should have an adult with you.
Our Action Plan
You can make a difference by supporting our work.
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Step 1: When possible,
we will host a kick-off event for families to learn about environmental issues.
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Step 2: Hand out seed kits that come with a small manual explaining how kids can start a rain garden in their own yards.
Step 3: Create a rain garden display for the City of Aurora, develop a plan for area schools to plant a rain garden, encourage family rain gardens with starter kits for kids to plant and maintain.
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Progress report:
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Made seed packets for family starter rain garden kits
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Created online educational materials to educate the community on our cause and to promote other environmental issues. In addition to this website, follow our blog or Instagram
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Designed a well written pamphlet providing information about our project.
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Pictures and images of school rain garden (coming soon)
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Rain garden display for the city of Aurora, IL (coming soon)
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Implementing a plan for school rain gardens (coming soon)
