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  • New Osprey Platform is Great Place to Raise a Family

    Thanks to American Transmission Company (ATC), a nesting platform has been installed on the north side of The Ridges Sanctuary’s property at Highway 57 and Ridges Road in Baileys Harbor, future site of the organization’s new interpretive center.

  • Free Introduction to Yoga Classes at Junction Center Yoga Studio

    People are never too young or too old to reap the health benefits of yoga. From the Sanskrit word for “union,” yoga is a practice that uses posture and breathing techniques to induce relaxation and improve strength.

  • Gibraltar Ecology Club Builds Bat Condos for Peninsula State Park

    The shop room at Gibraltar High School is noisy after the last bell on Thursday, Dec. 6, as Ecology Club members scrape, pound and saw. The students, along with volunteers with Friends of Peninsula State Park, park naturalist Kathleen Harris and volunteer teachers David Tupa and Andy Stimers, are putting together two bat condos to shelter the park’s bats “We’re making the bat condos as a way to give back and make Gibraltar a part of the community,” said sophomore Shelby Kahr.

  • Green Door Film Society Screens If a Tree Falls

    On Dec. 13 the Green Door Film Society will show the film If a Tree Falls. Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation.

  • Cellcom Further Invests in Chambers Island Green Cell Site

    In an effort to harvest more energy at its Chambers Island cell site during the dark winter months, Cellcom has further invested in the green cell site.

  • Henriksen Recognized for Years of Service

    As a commercial fisherman who relies on the lake to make his living, Charlie Henriksen made a good addition to the Wisconsin Invasive Species Council.

  • Greens N Grains Screens Bag It

    The Green Door Film Society will host a screening of the award-winning environmental documentary Bag It at Greens N Grains Dinner & a Movie night on Nov 29.

  • Cellcom Gives “Green Gifts” to Local Organizations

    Since 2004 Cellcom has offered a cell phone recycling program where customers can bring in their old or unwanted phones to be reused and recycled. Cellcom sends the phones to recyclers who, in return, send money to Cellcom for the materials that were saved from the phones.

  • Supporting Sustainability – In Business and At Home

    For Dave Lea, sustainability is about more than recycling. It’s about community; it’s about the future; and it’s about common sense. That’s how Dave and his wife Renny run their business, Sweetie Pies.

  • CAFO Expansion in Kewaunee Raises Concerns

    Ericka Routhieaux thinks of her family as canaries trapped in a coal mine. Twenty years ago when they moved into a small, blue house in the town of Lincoln, the surrounding landscape was dotted with farms.

  • Kewaunee Families File Legal Action against DNR

    Families near the Town of Lincoln in Kewaunee County are fighting a WI-DNR decision to allow the expansion of an industrial livestock operation, with the capacity to produce 72 million gallons of liquid manure each year.

  • Door County Buy Local Mixer

    The Door County Buy Local Steering Committee is holding a Door County Buy Local business-networking mixer on Nov. 6, 5:30 – 7 pm, at <a href="http://r20.

  • Great Lakes Get Bipartisan Support

    We can’t seem to agree on rights for public employees, providing public healthcare services or mining regulations, but Wisconsinites can agree on this: funding for Great Lakes restoration projects should continue.

  • Land Trust Map Encourages Exploring the Door

    Area elementary school children were recently encouraged to explore Door County when the Door County Land Trust distributed over 1,600 copies of its newly published, “Hiking Trails of the Door County Land Trust” map.

  • Open Door Bird Sanctuary Offers Free Trees

    Open Door Bird Sanctuary in Jacksonport is looking for people to repurpose their trees. The sanctuary, a non-profit organization dedicated to avian care, rehabilitation, and nature education; is currently under development.

  • WEP, Inc. Presents the 4th Annual Home Energy Fair

    “Live Green…Save Green,” is the theme for the 2012 Home Energy Fair presented by WEP, Inc. Oct. 13, 9 am – 2 pm, at the Cherry Point Mall. Participants can meet energy experts during demonstrations and presentations concerning plumbing, heating and electrical alternatives; insulation, sealing and indoor air quality; benefits of a home energy audit and energy efficiency.

  • SBSI Hosts Recycling Fundraiser

    On Oct. 20, 8 am – 12 pm, the Sturgeon Bay Skatepark Initiative are joining with Cyber Green at the Baylake Bank parking lot on the corner of 3rd Avenue and Jefferson Street for a recycling fundraiser.

  • $224,653 in Coastal Grants Awarded to Door County

    Funding to protect America’s coastline – including Great Lakes coastline – has trickled from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to projects along Door County shores through grants from the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program.

  • Sturgeon Bay Farm and Craft Market “Vendor of the Week”

    Are you looking for a great gift for someone who has everything, or maybe a fun gift idea for the next wedding or baby “shower” you are going to? Then you might want to visit Bob and Bonnie Abrahamson who have been in business selling their Logan Creek Soap for approximately 13 years and have been attending the Saturday Morning Farm and Craft Market for 11 of those years.

  • MREA Hosts Solar Tour

    The Midwest Renewable Energy Association (MREA) is joining the non-profit American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and hundreds of solar-savvy installers and grassroots organizations throughout America to showcase more than 5,000 solar-powered homes, schools and businesses for the 16th Annual National Solar Tour, the world’s largest grassroots solar event.