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.

Take A Pass on Plastics

Pizzeria DeVille North Milwaukee Avenue 404, Libertyville, Illinois, United States

An estimated one-third of all plastic produced globally is used once and thrown away, and only about 6% of the plastic waste in the U.S. is recycled. Most of it ends up in landfills where it leaches into soil and groundwater, threatening the health of ecosystems, wildlife and humans. The effectiveness of recycling is very […]

Free

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 […]

A Digital Diet for Carbon Reduction

Highland Park Library 494 Laurel Ave., Highland Park, IL, United States

Learn about practical steps for cleaning out areas in your digital world that generate carbon needlessly. Trim your digital footprint to reduce carbon to mitigate climate change. Rebecca Hedtler from Go Green HP provides practical steps for cleaning out areas in your digital world (photos, apps, text chains, and more) that generate carbon needlessly. Learn […]

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 […]