SCARCE is proud to learn that the Earth Flag Program is nationally recognized as one best practice projects in Science by the National Network of Partnership Schools, facilitated by Johns Hopkins University

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PromisingPartnershipPractices.pdf

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SCARCE was honored to receive the Public Education Award from the Illinois Associaton for Floodplain and Stormwater Management (IAFSM) in March 2009. Mary Lou Kalsted, a member of the IAFSM Awards Committee, wrote us a very kind email, which we have shared below. The SCARCE team is appreciative of every opportunity to educate the public regarding the importance of water conservation and stormwater management. Our many thanks to IAFSM for selecting SCARCE as this year's recipient!

Conservation champion

SCARCE founder’s programs teach kids importance of recycling

By By Hafsa Naz Mahmood - Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2007
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When Kay McKeen was growing up, her family frequently spent vacations at campgrounds or beaches. Among the rules they lived by: Never leave without cleaning up on your way out.

“We’d go camping, and by the time we left the campground, it was cleaner than it had been in years,” the 56-year-old Wheaton resident said. “If you’d take a walk on the beach, you had to clean the beach because you enjoyed it.” The lessons were clear and consistent: You don’t throw garbage out car windows. You don’t waste water. You always turn off the lights. “I had parents who cared about the environment long before it was cool,” she said. “It was just respect and responsibility, and it just carried on.”

Those childhood lessons took hold, and for the past three decades McKeen has been at the forefront of environmental efforts in DuPage County and beyond.