Quad Cities Earth Coalition

07/07/2023

Join us for a Plastic Free Festival at Niabi Zoo on Saturday, July 8 from 10am-4pm. Learn from community partners about how you can reduce your use of plastics, find effective alternatives, and help the environment.

Admission to Niabi Zoo is required. Go to www.niabizoo.com to purchase tickets.

04/20/2023

Celebrate with song and dance with members of the Native America Coalition of the Quad Cities. Meet with conservation organizations from the Quad Cities Earth Coalition and the Bi-State Conservation Action Network including partnering organizations such as Quad Cities Wild Ones, NAACP, Nahant Marsh, and Progressive Action for the Common Good.

Niabi’s Conservation Educators will have hands-on activities throughout the day. Come out and learn what actions you and your family can take through sustainability, fighting climate change, and advocating for environmental justice, plastic reduction, habitat restoration, and saving endangered species to help our planet thrive for generations to come.

10/12/2022

We need your help!

Join us this Saturday, Oct. 15 to make a big impact in our community by picking up litter and recording it using a Marine Debris Tracker App starting at 8am. We will then be sorting and recycling trash collected at the Freight House Farmer's Market event area at 10:30am. Register for one of the many QCA event locations and take action and make an impact in our community. No experience necessary!

This event is part of an initiative to raise awareness about marine litter and single-use plastics as part of a grant awarded to the City that installed litter traps on three creeks in Davenport earlier this year. The event offers citizen scientists the opportunity to be a part of the solution to marine litter.

Register and learn more at https://xstreamcleanup.org/citizenscience

10/10/2022

Join us at Niabi Zoo on INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD DAY Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 8:45am to take action to help protect snow leopards and to unite concerned global citizens around the causes of biodiversity, conservation and planetary health.

JOIN THE NIABI TEAM!
Walk, run, hop, or skip your way around the Zoo to help celebrate Niabi’s longest conservation partnership. In 2021, Niabi had the most participation of any Zoo in the world. Let’s get as many people involved as possible and break our own record!

Go to https://www.niabizoo.com/strides-for-snow-leopards/
or scan the QR Code below to register for $10 per person.

All funds raised will go directly toward supporting the important work of Snow Leopard Trust.

10/07/2022

The 2022 Upper Mississippi River Conference is just one week away, with registration closing Oct. 14th. The main theme of the conference is Changing Climate – Evolving River. We will have 1 keynote, Ray Wolf; Science and Operations Officer from NOAA and the National Weather Service, and 3 plenary sessions, Art Cullen; a Pulitzer Prize winning Journalist, John Delaney; a biologist at USGS, and William Becker, author and executive director for Presidential Climate Action Project, + many more great speakers. The conference is on Oct. 19th and 20th at the Stoney Creek Hotel in Moline, IL. You can register now at www.riveraction.org/umrc. You can also follow River Action on their social media platforms for behind the scenes information. Hope to see you all there!

10/04/2022

On October 15th, Xstream Cleanup will have a "Last Stop: The Ocean" clean up event! See below for more information!

No plans for October 15? Make a difference by signing up for a Last Stop: The Ocean clean up event! You will clean up along waterways and use Marine Debris Tracker to track what you find. Learn more at https://xstreamcleanup.org/upcoming-events.

08/31/2022

On Tuesday, September 6 at 5pm, Progressive Action for the Common Good (PACG) is hosting their Green Drinks event via Zoom. Learn from QCEC's very own Joel Vanderbush, Curator of Conservation & Education at Niabi Zoo about how the conservation of species and habitats steers decision making at Niabi.

RSVP at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoduGpqTIsH9fD6ssFCjEteY09ZHZ41w6m

08/11/2022

QCEC will NOT be meeting today. Our next meeting will be on Thursday, October 6th at Niabi Zoo.