The Power of Sustainable Investing

Virtual IL

Learn why investing in companies with high environmental and social priorities makes good financial sense. Three investment professionals will discuss how to develop an investment portfolio that combines building equity with helping to secure a livable world for you, your family, and our future. In partnership with Go Green Northbrook and Northbrook Chamber of Commerce. […]

CANCELLED: Gillson Beach Clean Up

Gillson Park Lake Ave. and Michigan Ave., Wilmette, IL, United States

CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER Join us for another beach cleanup!  Look for the Go Green Wilmette table at the south end of the park near the diagonal beachfront parking. Please bring your own bucket or container. Family-friendly – kids are encouraged to participate.

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 […]

Midwest Grows Green Giving Tuesday

Zoom

Almost another year of synthetic lawn chemical reduction is in the books! Hear from Midwest Grows Green's (MGG) Ryan Anderson how the initiative has identified, taught and implemented sustainable landscaping in 2022. After covering our achievements, Anderson will preview MGG plans for 2023. Before the MGG update, 7th grader Anusha Vaish from Eastchester, NY and […]

Free

Harms Woods East Workday

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

If you’re looking for ways to get outdoors in the winter months, what better way to do it than cutting brush and peeling off layers while you warm up in the woods?  To enjoy a beautiful day outdoors and help restore health to our local woodlands, please join us for a restoration work day at […]

Webinar: Cold Climate Heat Pumps

Virtual IL

Presented by Electrify Now, this webinar will give you a jump start learning about the next best thing in reducing home energy use – heat pumps. High efficiency heat pumps – often called Cold Climate heat pumps – are a key technology in helping individuals and communities move towards rapid electrification and decarbonization no matter where they […]

7th Annual Winter Solstice Parade of Lights

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

Decorate yourself, family, dogs, strollers or wagons with lights and things that glow. No candles or open flames, please! Meet at Glencoe’s Shelton Park playground  to mark the passing of the year’s  longest period of  darkness. Enjoy the Friends’ presentation of the Abbot’s Bromley Horn Dance, an ancient musical procession historically performed at this time […]

Free

Holiday Styrofoam Recycling 2022

Wilmette Public Works Yard 711 Laramie Ave., Wilmette, IL, United States

Free Styrofoam Recycling Collection in Wilmette The Village of Wilmette and Go Green Wilmette are sponsoring a Styrofoam collection for the year-end holidays.  Residents can drop off white block Styrofoam for which will be taken to Abt Electronics for recycling. Where:          Wilmette Public Works facility lobby, 711 Laramie Avenue (ring bell) When:           Weekdays only, […]

Go Green Illinois meeting

online IL, United States

Join Go Green Illinois members for a program on Sustainable Schools:  How to get started or how to make progress after Covid setbacks.   Register now for the meeting, but please be sure to unregister if you cannot attend so we do not exceed our registration maximum. When registering, please add your community name first, […]

Harms Woods East Workday

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

If you’re looking for ways to get outdoors in the winter months, what better way to do it than cutting brush and peeling off layers while you warm up in the woods?  To enjoy a beautiful day outdoors and help restore health to our local woodlands, please join us for a restoration work day at […]