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Tip of the Month
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Go Green Wilmette and the Village of Wilmette present Going Green Matters, Wilmette’s sixth annual green fair on Sunday, March 11th from 1 – 5 pm at the Woman’s Club of Wilmette, 930 Greenleaf Avenue. The fair will include information booths, exhibitor displays, and presentations on topics such as home energy conservation, renewable energy resources, green cleaning products, organic food choices, green landscaping, transportation, composting, growing your own food, and more. Visit the new "Interactive Eco Zone" with displays for all ages, view the nature photography exhibit, stop by the Go Green Cafe and check out the plug-in electric cars. Bring your batteries, electronics and Styrofoam for recycling. Free admission. Sponsors to date include SolarReserve, North Shore Community Bank, Higher Gear, Solar Service, Frothingham Communications, Makeitbetter.net, Natural Awakenings, Horigan Urban Forest Products, Renewal by Anderson and the Woman's Club of Wilmette. Please contact us if you would like to be a sponsor or exhibitor at the event. For more information about Going Green Matters, visit www.goinggreenmatters.org. |
Upcoming Events
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Monday, January 30
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The Climate Crisis - 2012 Update
The Climate Crisis, Updated for 2012 Monday, January 30, 2012 at 7 pm Jess Reese, a volunteer with the Climate Change Reality Project, Brookfield Zoo employee and ocean expert, will bring us up to date on climate change issues and talk about possible solutions and how we can take meaningful steps to bring about change. For more information, visit http://presenters.climaterealityproject.org/presentation/7724 Wilmette Public Library More information: What is The Climate Reality Project? Climate change is not your fault for the car you drive, the lights you turn on, or the food you eat. The climate crisis is our problem. Real solutions, systemic solutions, innovative solutions, can only come when we address it together. That’s what The Climate Reality Project will do. Without doubt. Without delay. And with your help. The Climate Reality Project is bringing the facts about the climate crisis into the mainstream and engaging the public in conversation about how to solve it. We help citizens around the world discover the truth and take meaningful steps to bring about change. About Jess: Jess became a volunteer with The Climate Project because she was interested in speaking about the Climate Crisis, in an effort to make a difference, and change opinions on a grass-roots level. Jess is an avid SCUBA diver and lover of the ocean realm. For years, she has known about the devastating effects of global warming and how it affects coral reefs, but after watching An Inconvenient Truth and learning that coral reefs are now contending with another climate related issue, acidic seas, she is committed to spending her considerable energies saving coral reefs and the animals that live on them. Jess, who works at Brookfield Zoo presenting the dolphin show, also is a volunteer Caribbean Reef Diver at the John G. Shedd Aquarium, and has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean, and most recently in the South Pacific islands in Fiji and Austalia's Great Barrier Reef . During her dives on these trips, she has witnessed, first hand, the decline in the ocean's health, and worries that if we do not act now to stop this crisis, the beauty of the ocean may not be there one day to share with future generations. Jess urges you to be the change that you want to see in the world. |
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Wednesday, February 1
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GGM 2012 Planning Meeting
Join us for brainstorming and planning at Fuel on the bike path near the Metra station in Wilmette. The meeting will focus on planning for our 6th annual environmental fair, Going Green Matters which will be held on March 11, 2012. 1 - 5pm, but there will be time for other issues. 10am. |
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Saturday, February 4
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Jeanne Pinsof Nolan - Grow Your Own Food
This is your chance to hear Jeanne Pinsof Nolan, The Organic Gardener. Learn how you can start growing your own food in your yard or in a community garden near you! 2pm Wilmette Public Library. |
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