Recycle Right: Your Questions Answered

Virtual IL

Are you uncertain about what is recyclable and where to recycle it? A representative from Waste Management & other experts provide an inside look at how to recycle effectively to help the environment. Do you find yourself “wishcycling” small plastic objects? Or confused about whether shredded paper is recyclable? Recycling helps the environment when done […]

Gillson Park Beach Clean Up

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

Join us for a beach clean up at Gillson Beach. Look for our table at the south end of the park near the diagonal beachfront parking.  Feel free to come early or stay beyond 11am, but please check in at our table. View the short video we filmed about plastic pollution and our beach clean up efforts. […]

International Climate Symposium

Online

All are invited to virtually attend Dickenson College's Science-Based Choices for Climate Action, Insights from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report, October 24-26. We welcome students from secondary schools, undergraduate colleges, and graduate studies, faculty, and community members near and far to attend this free symposium, either in-person or virtually via livestream. Come for one session, a […]

Free

Midwest Grows Green Sustainable Landscaping Workshops

ThatcherWoodsPavilion 8030 Chicago Ave, River Forest

Join Midwest Grows Green's (MGG) Lawn & Land Forum and LawnandLand.org for sustainable landscaping presentations, hands-on demonstrations and resources. The day features two workshops. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. Each workshop costs $30.  The workshops are... Morning: Natural Lawn Care Workshop Time: 8:45 am to 12:15 pm What: Turfgrass management practitioners […]

$30

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 […]

Pumpkin Pitch 2022

Various Wilmette Locations Wilmette, IL, United States

The Village of Wilmette will once again provide dumpsters for you to “pitch your pumpkins” and turn them into compost.  Painted gourds and pumpkins are OK, but remove all candles and decorations. Dumpsters will be in the Village Hall parking lot and the Centennial parking lot on November 5th.  Dumpster at Village Hall ONLY on […]

Pumpkin Pitch 2022

Various Wilmette Locations Wilmette, IL, United States

The Village of Wilmette will once again provide dumpsters for you to “pitch your pumpkins” and turn them into compost.  Painted gourds and pumpkins are OK, but remove all candles and decorations. Dumpsters will be in the Village Hall parking lot and the Centennial parking lot on November 5th.  Dumpster at Village Hall ONLY on […]

Pumpkin Pitch 2022

Various Wilmette Locations Wilmette, IL, United States

The Village of Wilmette will once again provide dumpsters for you to “pitch your pumpkins” and turn them into compost.  Painted gourds and pumpkins are OK, but remove all candles and decorations. Dumpsters will be in the Village Hall parking lot and the Centennial parking lot on November 5th.  Dumpster at Village Hall ONLY on […]

Go Green Reads: Fen, Bog and Swamp

Virtual IL

A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment—by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth’s most desirable and dependable resources, and […]

Go Green Illinois meeting

IL, United States

Topic: Regional greenhouse gas emissions: how to use data to inform your local work Register here for this virtual meeting.