Friends of the Green Bay Trail 9th Annual Winter Solstice

Shelton Park 385 Old Green Bay Road, Glencoe, IL, United States

Celebrate the arrival of longer days. Light up the night. Dress your family, dog, wagons, strollers  and yourself  with glowing decor.  No candles or open flames. Enjoy the Abbot’s Bromley Horn Dance, an ancient musical procession performed at this time of year. Festivities will end with a bonfire and refreshments. Severe weather will cancel the […]

Holiday Styrofoam Recycling

Centennial Park Crawford and Old Glenview Rd., Wilmette, IL, United States

Go Green Wilmette and the Wilmette Park District will host a Styrofoam recycling collection at the Centennial Recreation Complex, 2300 Old Glenview Rd, Wilmette, at the swimming pool entrance. Collection dates are December 27, 28; January 3 & 4, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm.  The collection is free to the public. Go Green Wilmette, with the help […]

Holiday Styrofoam Recycling

Centennial Park Crawford and Old Glenview Rd., Wilmette, IL, United States

Go Green Wilmette and the Wilmette Park District will host a Styrofoam recycling collection at the Centennial Recreation Complex, 2300 Old Glenview Rd, Wilmette, at the swimming pool entrance. Collection dates are December 27, 28; January 3 & 4, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm.  The collection is free to the public. Go Green Wilmette, with the help […]

Holiday Styrofoam Recycling

Centennial Park Crawford and Old Glenview Rd., Wilmette, IL, United States

Go Green Wilmette and the Wilmette Park District will host a Styrofoam recycling collection at the Centennial Recreation Complex, 2300 Old Glenview Rd, Wilmette, at the swimming pool entrance. Collection dates are December 27, 28; January 3 & 4, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm.  The collection is free to the public. Go Green Wilmette, with the help […]

Holiday Styrofoam Recycling

Centennial Park Crawford and Old Glenview Rd., Wilmette, IL, United States

Go Green Wilmette and the Wilmette Park District will host a Styrofoam recycling collection at the Centennial Recreation Complex, 2300 Old Glenview Rd, Wilmette, at the swimming pool entrance. Collection dates are December 27, 28; January 3 & 4, 8:00 am – 1:00 pm.  The collection is free to the public. Go Green Wilmette, with the help […]

Restoration Kick-off Event!

Florsheim Nature Preserve Farrington Drive, Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States

In Lincolnshire, a precious ecosystem is fading away… and it needs our help! On January 5th, come join in launching a community of collaborative stewards — people ready to learn, work, and do what it takes to restore rare and critical habitat back to health. No experience with restoration, but love nature and want to […]

Go Green Illinois meeting

Online

The topic of this meeting is water. We will learn about water treatment standards, pollution prevention, and more. Sign up to receive the zoom link.

Harms Woods East Workday

Harms Woods – South Harms Road, Morton Grove, IL, United States

If you’d like to enjoy a beautiful day outdoors and help restore health to our local woodlands, please join us for a restoration work day at Harms Woods East! We’ll meet in the Harms Woods South parking lot (Groves 1 & 2), which is the first parking lot north of Golf Road (the one shaped […]

Go Green Reads: The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Virtual IL

As Indigenous scientist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of Braiding Sweetgrass) harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy. How, she asks, can we learn from Indigenous wisdom and the plant world to re-imagine what we value most? We have surrendered our […]