This coming Friday, Sep. 24 is World Gorilla Day, so MCPc and the Metroparks Zoo are teaming up to encourage people to come to the zoo and drop off their unused electronics to save the gorillas.

Fresh Fest Cleveland returns to Rid-All Farm and Otter Park this month, with a free multicultural festival that includes a farmers market, art installations, hands-on activities and workshops, food and drinks, art vendors, health and wellness activities, and a kids zone filled with fun for the whole family. 

Brittney Hooper shares her thoughts on Lake Erie, the Cuyahoga River, and the history of environmental efforts to preserve our assets.  

Expanding on Michelle Obama's Let's Move! Outside initiative, local nonprofit Organic Connects partners with the Cleveland Metroparks to help urban youth connect to nature.

After a year-and-a-half hiatus, curbside recycling is coming back to  Cleveland and residents have until October to opt in to the program.
 

Euclid's HELP Harvest Greenhouse will teach life and employment skills by providing both paid employment and on-the-job training in growing hydroponic crops and fresh produce.

Canalway Partners is celebrating the progress of the Cuyahoga River and the recreational lifestyle that clean water provides with the Cuyahoga River Rally this weekend. 

NOACA will hold a virtual public meeting to discuss the draft of its eNEO2050 plan—which aligns future transportation and environmental planning initiatives with a focus on equitable access in land use, housing, jobs, health, and economics.
 

Cuyahoga County will invest $950,000 into the region’s tree canopy by funding 25 tree projects funding its Healthy Tree Canopy Grant Program.

The Cleveland Bar Association recently hosted a panel discussion examining the historic and continued environmental justice concerns that have fueled ongoing health and wealth impacts in city neighborhoods.
 

Holden Forests & Gardens urges everyone to pledge to plant a tree in its People for Trees initiative—with the goal of planting 15,000 new trees in the Forest City by 2025.

The Cuyahoga County Planning Commission will hold an online public meeting later this month to get input on the Lakefront Public Access Plan. 

The Putzfrau, a boat designed by Northeast Ohio native Frank Samsel and used in the early 1970s to clean up the Cuyahoga River, was spotted yesterday—restored and back in service.

In early November, after three weeks on the Atlantic, 3,000 cubic meters of Austrian timber arrived at the Port of Cleveland for the INTRO project in Ohio City. Let the building of the country's tallest wood building begin!

Canalway Partners organizers encourage people to clean up their own neighborhoods in honor of this year's RiverSweep.

Guest columnist Marc Lefkowitz, director of Green City/Blue Lake,  reflects on COVID-19's positive impact on the environment and the lessons we can take away moving forward.

The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes isn't letting the coronavirus crisis wipe out its annual plant sale. It's heading online this year for a full month, and so far, orders are up.

Improving accessibility and energy efficiency are the main reasons that Lakewood's Beck Center for the Arts is working to raise $5.7 million.

FreshWater Cleveland's contributing editor Jen Jones Donatelli shares her experience as one of 30 finalists in this year's round of Accelerate: Citizens Make Change.

Great Lakes Brewing Company has completed its most extensive renovations since the Ohio City landmark opened in 1988.