Kent Free Library – 312 W. Main St, 2nd Floor
Thursday,January 22 • 6:30-8:00

6:30 PM – Business Meeting:

• Election of 2026 Board Officers
• Budget Review and Approval
• 2025 Review – Highlights & Accomplishments
• 2026 Ahead – Goals, Direction – we want to hear from you!
• Announcing Legacy for the Environment Grant Recipients

7:00 PM – Guest Speaker

Environmental Justice with Addison Caruso,
a Staff Attorney for Fair Shake Environmental
Legal Services, a nonprofit law firm that
represents both individuals and organizations
on a sliding scale. Fair Shake also provides
free organizing support for communities
facing environmental challenges through
our community democracy program.
Addison will talk about recent environmental
legal changes in Ohio and general trends
across the state.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

We hope to see you at this renewing evening!
Click here for KEC January 2026 Program Flyer.

We hope you will join us this month as we give thanks and proclaim hope! We will hear from:

• Brian Adkins of Brian’s Birds Unlimited, an inspirational and incredible young birder embracing the beauty of autumn.
• An open community discussion to share the ways we give thanks to Mother Earth, and
• More community sharing as we discuss the environmental heroes who inspire us.

We hope to see you at this renewing evening!
Click here for KEC November Monthly Program Flyer.

Join us for this family-friendly event celebrating October 2025 as Sustainability Month and the wonders of our night skies. Join us as we partner with many great local organizations including:

• City of Kent Sustainability Commission,
• City of Kent Parks and Recreation,
• Kent Environmental Council,
• Discover Bats Ohio, and
• Portage Park District

Darkness is something not a lot of people are comfortable with. But for our nocturnal native animals, it is essential for survival. Encroaching light pollution into their habitats creates challenges for them. Join us as we discuss bats, migratory birds, and other creatures of the night that would greatly benefit from our willingness to flip the switch and turn out the lights.

We hope you will join us for this special event.

Click here for official event flyer.

Click here of information and directions to Plum Creek Park.

As a proud citizens and partner of the City of Kent for over 55 years, we, the Kent Environmental Council would like to congratulate the City of Kent, and the Sustainability Commission in the official proclamation of October 2025 as Sustainability Month. We are honored to share these core values with our great city. Click here to for the Official Proclamation or here for events celebrating this month. We hope you will join us in the celebration.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 4, 2025 for Face2Face, sponsored by the Kent League of Women Voters. The Kent Environmental Council is proud to co-sponser this valuable civic opportunity.

We hope you will join us at our Special SUN DAY (https://SUNDAY.earth) monthly program, Transitioning to Solar Energy at 6:30 to hear from:

• KEC member Bill Wilen on solarization of the UU Church of Kent
• Brittany Dobish of Solar United Neighbors
• KEC members Al and Debbie Barber on home solar with batteries
• Jeff Ingram of Standing Rock Cultural Arts on his solarization efforts, and
• Sam Roberts of Farm-To-Power about sustainable energy and income from solar for farmers.

We hope to see you for this special “enlightening” event!
Click here for KEC SUN DAY Event Flyer.

We hope you will join us at our monthly meeting at 6:30 to hear from Ben McMilian, founder of Rubber City Reuse about Turning Spoils into Soil; from Eileen Gross about Homegrown Renewable Energy; and from Todd Cartner’s brief discussion about overlooked Urban Forests and their benefits.

Then we will hear from our Quarterly Speakers at 7:30. Tim Morgan, Certified Forester, will talk about Sustainable Forest Management For Private Woodland Owners.

An article by the Kent Environmental Council for the Kent Sustainability Commission

Just like sunglasses can tint your view on a sunny day, your news source can shape your view on solar energy – click following link to discover the hopeful solar story the mainstream media isn’t telling, in this special KEC article for the Kent Sustainability Commission: Solar Hope the Mainstream News Isn’t Covering, Page-4

We hope you will join us at our monthly meeting to learn about and discuss our environment. See this month’s topics below.