Category: Green Page

Water is our most vital resource, but most of us never give it a second thought. If we do, it’s usually when we’re admiring the shoreline. But the health of the Door Peninsula’s groundwater may be more vulnerable than any other region in the Midwest.

Invitations are in the mail for the second annual Door County Climate Change Forum on May 9, 9 am to 2 pm, at Stone Harbor Resort in Sturgeon Bay. This science-based gathering, presented by the Climate Change Coalition of Door County, will feature speakers who are national experts on climate change and world food security, agriculture in Wisconsin and Door County, and our treasured boreal forests, lakes and birds.

The Open Door Bird Sanctuary in Jacksonport is looking for people to help prepare for the construction of the new Bird Care Center in early June. The sanctuary is also in need of volunteers to help out with land work and to greet and talk with visitors to Open Door this summer.

Each spring since 2002, Door County conservation organizations and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have joined together for the Door County Festival of Nature.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources invites all who enjoy the outdoors to send in their videos for the 2015 invasive species awareness video contest.

The newly formed Door County Beekeepers Club will host “Diseases of the Beehive and its Treatment” on April 16 at 7 pm at Crossroads at Big Creek. Presenter Ken Sikora is the president of the Brown County Beekeepers Association and has been a beekeeper for 25 years in the Green Bay area.

What if El Dorado, the city of gold sought by Spanish conquistadors, was actually a metaphor for another kind of wealth, Terra Petra – Earth that is, black gold, Amazon tea.

Southern Door Elementary students spent Friday, March 27, in the great outdoors of their very own 45-acre school forest, learning about the Maple syrup process from Southern Door School Board member Mike Toneys, his wife, Carrol, and other volunteers.

Do you know of an individual, organization or company involved in innovative initiatives or projects to improve the health of Lake Michigan? If so, nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Lake Michigan Champions of Conservation, sponsored by the Lake Michigan Stakeholders and Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership.

The Jacksonport Women’s Club is accepting orders through April 15 for three varieties of crabapple trees. Plant some on your property and consider donating some to your community, churches or nonprofit organizations.

Do you grow vegetables or create products right here in Door County with local resources? Then you should be in our 2015 Local Producers guide, part of our annual Sustainability Issue.

A number of studies indicate that caffeine may have a protective effect on the brain. A long-running Finnish study linked drinking three to five cups of coffee per day at midlife with a 65 percent reduced risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease or other dementia in late life.

Saturday, March 28, marks the fourth and final in a four-part series of educational open houses for Sturgeon Bay’s first LEED-registered home, designed by architect Virge Temme of Sturgeon Bay and built by Ahnapee Construction of Algoma.

The Door County Master Gardeners are pleased to present Associate Professor Mike Draney, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, who returns to Door County to discuss the truth in the old saying “the enemies of your enemies are your friends.

Chasing Ice is the next Dinner and a Movie at Greens N Grains on April 2. As the debate polarizes America, and the intensity of natural disasters ramps up globally, Chasing Ice depicts a heroic photojournalist on a mission to deliver fragile hope to our carbon-powered planet.

In addition to the loss of Diporeia, a major food source for fish in Lake Michigan, there are other challenges to the Great Lakes ecosystem, including the arrival of zebra mussels about 1980 and quagga mussels in the 1990s.

The “Hoosier Poet,” James Whitcomb Riley, long ago made the now famous observation: “When I see a bird that walks like a duck, and swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

In 2007, the World Wildlife Fund launched Earth Hour, a nonprofit initiative encouraging individuals across the globe to turn off their lights for one hour on the last Saturday of March to raise awareness for climate change.

Explore the easy-to-hike trails at the Lautenbach Woods Nature Preserve on Saturday, March 21, from 9 to 11 am. The 1.25-mile trail winds through a hardwood forest, descends the slope of the Niagara Escarpment, passes through a conifer forest and gradually ascends back through hardwoods.