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Your guide to recycling in Cedar Rapids and Linn County Have you ever wondered if something is recyclable, and then thrown it into your recycling bin in hopes that it is? (Putting things in recycling…
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Pop-up Farm-to-Table Dinner on Valentine’s Day
*SOLD OUT* Pop-up Farm-to-Table dinner Valentine’s Day at Indian Creek Nature Center Wednesday, February 14, 2018 SOLD OUT! Do something truly special this Valentine’s Day: enjoy delicious cuisine that supports a sustainable local food system…
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Support our 2017 Annual Campaign
In the past year, did you attend Concerts at the Creek, or Practice in the Prairie yoga? Did you bring your preschooler to Trail Trekkers, or attend a backyard chickens workshop? Did your child attend…
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Your Sustainability Tips: Holiday Alternatives
According to the EPA, household waste increases 25% between November and New Year’s. That totals 1 million EXTRA tons of trash! As you begin planning your gifts and filling your house with holiday decorations, we challenge you to try…
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Project Feeder Watch
Join us in participating in a citizen science project, Project Feeder Watch. Enjoy watching birds in the comfort of Indian Creek Nature Center’s bird room with other like-minded people. We will simply be listing the…
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Get Snowy With Winter Break Camps!
Kids need time in nature in all seasons. Keep your kids busy and having fun outdoors over winter break with Indian Creek Nature Center’s Winter Break Camps! Explore the Nature Center in winter with hands-on…
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Giving Tuesday
Help us get kids outside! Think about your best childhood memory. Does it take place outdoors? For many of us, those memories include playing in the woods, biking outdoors with friends, or building a tree…
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Your Sustainability Tips: A Thankful Mother Earth
We have much to be thankful for in Eastern Iowa, and the support of YOU, the members of Indian Creek Nature Center, is something we are thankful for every day. We’d like to think that Mother…
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The Future is Bright!
Indian Creek Nature Center’s mission has always been to create a more sustainable future. When we set out to build our new Amazing Space building, we doubled down on this commitment by taking on the…
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Your Sustainability Tips: Halloween
As we welcome fall, we also welcome the opportunity to reduce our trash consumption and dependence on fossil fuels. In one of my favorite books, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, she states “The average food item…
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