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Goodfest at St. John’s

St. John's Lutheran Church 1235 Wilmette Ave., Wilmette, IL, United States

St. John's Goodfest Goes Green! Go Green Wilmette will be at the Goodfest gathering at St. John's Church on Oct. 1 helping to make it a "Zero Waste" event. Do you belong to a group planning an event? If so, let GGW help you reduce waste, compost food scraps and make it an earth-friendly event. Three cheers […]

Fall Seed Spreading and Tree Walks Day

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

Where: Gillson Park Bird Habitat Northwest corner of the park above the beach parking lot Join Go Green Wilmette as we enjoy autumn in Gillson Park. For the last habitat workday of the season in the Park’s Bird Habitat, we will celebrate the space by gathering seeds from several species of native plants growing there. […]

Going Green Matters Webinar Series: We’re Ovar It – Earth Friendly Menstrual Wellness

Virtual IL

Register now! Join us for "We’re Ovar It," a webinar discussion about earth-friendly menstrual wellness. It’s time to address how period products affect the health of our bodies and the earth through a discussion and Q&A with activists and experts within the earth-friendly wellness space. A bit of background: In the United States alone, approximately […]

Net Zero Building Tour

Techny Prairie Activity Center 180 Anets Drive, Northbrook, IL, United States

Join Illinois Green Alliance and the Northbrook Park District IN-PERSON for a guided tour of one of the first net zero energy verified projects in Illinois! Designed by Wight & Company, the 44,200 square foot Techny Prairie Activity Center (TPAC) is a PHIUS+ 2015 & Source Zero Certified Project. The facility received a $1.78 million […]

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. […]

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 […]

Event Series Pumpkin Pitch 2022

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

Wilmette Village Hall 1200 Wilmette Ave, Wilmette, IL

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. Dumpster at Village Hall ONLY on November 12th Help us keep these pumpkins out of the landfill.

Go Green Reads: Fen, Bog and Swamp

Virtual IL

Fen, Bog and Swamp by Annie Proulx 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 […]