We need your help with set-up and facilitating nature play at Let's Play! Winter Woods Exploration. The Alliance for Early Childhood and BackYard Nature Center plan to welcome children of all ages to engage in imaginative, and child-directed, outdoor free-play in the woods. If you are available to help or have any questions, please […]
Climate change has brought on an unprecedented increase in the severity and frequency of extreme weather. People and the urban forests in which we live and work, face these challenges together. Join us virtually on "Twos Day" (Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022) to learn from experts about what climate impacts to expect on the trees you manage AND how you can manage […]
Presented by Go Green Wilmette, Go Green Highland Park, Go Green Glen Ellyn and Go Green Northbrook. Registration Required HERE Find out how you can go solar! Join us for this webinar featuring Jay Futterman, an Illinois Solar Energy Association Solar Ambassador. Learn about roof top solar installations and find out if it is right […]
Start your Birding Journey. Part of the Be A Better Birder Series Join a naturalist to learn about how to identify birds. Learn tips, tricks, and hints to apply when looking at birds. This is a Zoom presentation. Register on Eventbrite
Mark your calendars for the One Earth Film Fest! More details to come
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 […]
Virtual: Zoom link will be provided through Lake County Audubon Society near the date of the event. Visit lakecountyaudubon.org > program/schedule Spring migration in Chicago is dynamic. Millions of birds stopover in our region on their journey north. Thankfully, migration is also predictable. With some preparation, you can be in the best places to witness spring migration […]
Have you heard that the Village of Wilmette is offering its own community solar program, similar to the one that Go Green Wilmette promoted? Sign in to get a preview of the program from Wilmette's Alex Arteaga. After the short presentation, you can stay on to share tips, ask questions, check in with GGW friends, […]
The Robert Crown branch library in Evanston is hosting a series of discussions of the book All We Can Save, with the goal of bringing people together to discuss how we can use the climate crisis as an opportunity to build better, more sustainable, equitable and compassionate communities. This book group will be co-led by Rachel […]
Learn about the work of Piet Oudolf, the leading naturalistic landscape and garden designer through the personal research of landscape design consultant Deborah Chud. She’ll trace her discovery of Oudolf’s work, her research into his design principles, his ideas of structure and the balance of coherence, plant combinations, and her use of that research to […]