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  • Traveling Green in Door County

    Door and Kewaunee Counties now boast 37 Travel Green Certified businesses and organizations.

  • Clean Energy at Crossroads

    Crossroads at Big Creek is already reaping the benefits of the installation late last year of an Enphase Solar Panel. Construction began on the solar project last September, with most of the actual labor taking place on 10/10/10 as part of a Global Work Party.

  • Egg Harbor Installing Pervious Pavers for Parking Lots

    The Village of Egg Harbor is taking more steps to ensure water quality as the board expands parking at the beach and park. The parking lots will be expanded with pervious pavers, allowing storm water to filter into the ground rather than pick up sediment as it rolls across the parking lot, then into the lake or ground.

  • Lea Receives Permaculture Certification

    David Lea, member of Sustain Door, an organization dedicated to promoting sustainable practices in Door County, recently attended an intensive course in Permaculture at University of Wisconsin – River Falls (UWRF).

  • Door County Buy Local Food Mixer

    The Door County Buy Local Agriculture sub-committee is holding a Local Food Mixer event on Wednesday, April 27, 4:30 – 6:30 pm at the Draft Haus (formerly The Reef), 901 Egg Harbor Road, Sturgeon Bay.

  • Why is it…?

    If geo-engineering campaigns are truly a reality – as talked about in the 2010 documentary What in the World are They Spraying? – then why aren’t those concerned with the sustainability of the planet up in arms about it?

  • Thoughts on Sustainability

    Is sustainability possible? In theory, perhaps, but it won’t happen in our lifetimes. And in my opinion it won’t happen without a sea change in the way we view the planet and our place on it.

  • Some Sustainability Snippets

    Winston Churchill said “The era of procrastination, or half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.” Churchill wasn’t talking about the sustainability movement, but the message certainly applies.

  • Farmers’ Markets Galore

    The stand by the side of the road selling fresh produce is not an anomaly in Door County. Traversing up and down the peninsula on a sunny afternoon, one would need all their fingers and toes to count the opportunities to pull over and stock up on something fresh.

  • A Few “Earth Week” Events

    A plethora of earth-friendly and earth-conscious activities are upcoming in Door County.

  • Ways We Can Help Nature

    It was in the summer of 1964 when I was hired to become naturalist and manager of The Ridges Sanctuary that I soon came to realize what wonderfully preserved natural history existed here and also at the adjacent Toft Point area to the east.

  • Composting: The Ins, Outs & Troubleshooting

    The IN List Animal manure Cardboard rolls Clean paper Coffee grounds and filters Cotton rags Dryer and vacuum cleaner lint Eggshells Fireplace ashes Fruits and vegetables Grass clippings Hair and fur Hay and straw Houseplants Leaves Nut shells Sawdust Shredded newspaper Tea bags Wood chips Wool rags Yard trimmings   The OUT List & Reason […]

  • Composting: The Easiest Form of Recycling

    According to the Environmental Protection Agency, in 2009 Americans produced about 243 million tons of Municipal Solid Waste, or about 4.3 pounds of waste per person per day.

  • Food Waste: By the Numbers

    • 1,400 – Calories a day wasted by American eaters • 50 – Percent increase in the amount of food wasted by Americans since 1974 • $1,300 – The estimated minimum value of the food that an American family of four throws out in a year

  • Introducing Our 5th Annual Sustainability Issue

    Garbage. Trash. Waste. Whatever you call it, we produce a lot of it. We’ve become, to steal from Tyler Durden, a single-serving society. Disposable cameras, diapers, contact lenses.

  • An Attempt at a Trash Free Week

    The idea for a “No Trash Challenge” hadn’t yet finished percolating in my brain when I brought it up at our brainstorm session for the 5th annual Sustainability Issue. What did come to fruition rather quickly, nevertheless, was that I was the lucky employee who would attempt the “No Trash Challenge” and share my findings with our readers.

  • Bright Eye Farm: A Retrospect

    South of Jacksonport on Highway 57 passersby can see the remnants of Bright Eye Farm, Door County’s first venture into organic gardening. Those of a certain age and with a history on the peninsula might remember once viewing rows of vegetables and pulling over at the roadside stand to purchase them.

  • Door County Library and Sustain Door to Conduct Transition Initiative Study

    Sustain Door and the Door County Library will collaborate on a free public study of the Transition Initiative, a movement taking place in hundreds of communities around the world in response to the dual challenges of Peak Oil and climate change, and the resulting economic strains.

  • Green Quote

    “We need the energy. We need the jobs that come with energy. We need the electricity.”

  • Green Facts

    1 billion: Tons of coal consumed annually in the United States