Residents will soon have an opportunity to hear from Oak Park leaders about how the village is progressing toward its sustainability goals.
Oak Park’s Office of Sustainability and Resilience will host an educational event about the village’s progress towards the goals laid out in the Climate Ready Oak Park Plan.
The event, which will feature a “community conversation,” will be held Thursday, Sept. 4 at 6 p.m. in the Veterans Room on the second floor of the Oak Park Public Library’s main branch, according to the village.
“Following a brief progress report, community members and groups will have an opportunity to converse, listen and share,” the village said of the event. “Come for the conversation and stay for the community and the climate!”
The Climate Ready Oak Park Plan, which the village ratified just over two years ago, features a number of ambitious emissions-reduction goals. The plan tasked the village with cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 60% by 2030 in a bid for net-zero emissions by 2050, as well as other goals like increasing the village’s biodiversity.
The village held a similar community conversation event in August of 2023 before publishing a progress report document later that year.
Village leaders have previously said that Oak Park will likely not hit the 60% reduction mark by 2030, but the village has regularly introduced new initiatives to integrate the plan into village policy.