Green Calendar 2011
Updated September 23, 2011-- Check back for updated green events and activities or search individual organization Web sites for more specifics. Or, for more details, contact Chris Schneider, chris-hybridguru@centurytel.net.
Third Tuesday –Green Drinks at Fayze’s, 4th St., downtown La Crosse (6:30 p.m.)
January 23 – Oneota Film Festival, Decorah, IA.
January 26 – 30 – Frozen River Film Festival, Winona State University
February 15– Green Drinks
February 24 - 26 – MOSES Organic Farming Conference – La Crosse Center
February 25 – CBCM Conference at WTC Lunda Center (Compressed Bio-gas from Cow Manure)
March 5– Better Living Show, Winona (KAGE Radio)
March 6 – Better Living Show, Decorah (KDEC Radio)
March 15 – Green Drinks
March 22– Deep Energy Reduction Builders Tour – Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, Lanesboro, MN. (507) 467-2437 www.eagle-bluff.org 11a-1p
March 24 – Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) Workshop with Black Hills Energy, Decorah, IA.
March 29 – Gas to Energy project presentation for Sierra Club, Ho Chunk building on Main St.
April 1 – 30 – Earth Month
April 5 – Cornucopia Institute presentation (local healthy, sustainable food systems) w/ Cornucopia co-founder, UW-L Cartwright Center, http://www.cornucopia.org/
April 7 – Dane County open house – biomethane initiative
April 8 – Propel with Propane workshop, Milwaukee
April 16 – Earth Week kick-off @ Myron Hixon EcoPark.
April 16 – Earth Day celebration, Winona
April 19 – Green Drinks
April 23 – Kickapoo Earth Day celebration, Readstown
April 28 – May 1– Iowa Renewable Energy & Symposium Exposition
April 30 – May 1 – Kayak Instructor’s workshop, Three Rivers Outdoors, jconaway@threeriversoutdoors.com.
April 30 – Deep Energy Reduction Public Tour – Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, Lanesboro, MN. (507) 467-2437
April 30 – Lanesboro Earth Day celebration, dinner lecture series
May 2 – 5 – Biomass Conference in St. Louis
May 11 – Solid Waste celebration, Green Tier program groundbreaking (gas to energy program) @ La Crosse County landfill
May 15 – Bike to Work Week kick-off at Myrick Park, May 16 – 20 Bike to Work Week in the Driftless Region
May 17– Green Drinks
May 27 – Natural Gas workshop, Tomah
June 1 – La Crosse County Solid Waste Department Green Tier Celebration and Landfill Gas-to-Energy Groundbreaking 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. RSVP no later than 5/25 to (608) 785-9572.
June 21– Green Drinks
June 17 – 19 – MREA Energy Fair (Midwest Renewable Energy Assoc.) – Custer, WI., largest energy fair in country wwwthe-mrea.org, bus leaving from People’s Food Co-op, La Crosse for all day trip – June 18th
July 23- 24 – Green Drive Expo – Madison
July 19 – Green Drinks
July 30 – 8th Annual Kickapoo Country Fair Natural Gas Refueling Discussion - 3:15 – Viroqua
August 2 – LADCO 15th Annual Industry Appreciation Breakfast
August 4 – Natural Gas Vehicle workshop - Milwaukee
August 16 – Green Drinks
August 19 – 20 – Polk County Energy Fair – St. Croix Falls
August 26 – 28 —Great River Folk Festival
September 15 – Bio-based fuel seminar - WTC
September 17 – 18 – Green Life Expo, Black River Falls
September 20 – Green Drinks
September 22 – EcoSpirituality at Eco Park, Sister Lucy Slinger, 7p
September 24 – Moving Planet
September 26 – Coulee Partners for Sustainability 4th Annual Harvest Dinner at Nell’s
October 1 – Dam Challenge – Kickapoo Valley Reserve (kayak, run, mountain bike)
October 1 – Solar Home Tour
October 5 – No Impact Man, Colin Beavan will be giving a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. in Valhalla Hall of the Cartwright Center on the UW-L campus. Tickets are available through their ticket office in Cartwright– UW-La Crosse
October 6 – 4th Annual Bio Energy International Summit – Madison
October 8 – Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Annual Fall Scholarship Fundraiser
October 9 - 16 - No Impact Week (UW-L, WTC, Viterbo University, Coulee Partners for Sustainability)
October 9 – Odyssey Alternative Fuel Vehicle Day at Honda Motorwerks – 10:30 a.m. – 2 p.m., including presentations on biogas, compressed natural gas, electric, and hybrid vehicle transportation and fueling, tour displays, lunch, Q& A; download the agenda here (PDF).
October 15 – La Crosse Living Green Expo at WTC – 11a – 4p by Coulee Partners for Sustainability
October 18 —Green Drinks
October 18 – EcoCraft Program, www.mhecopark.org
October 31 – November 2 – Biocycle Conference (Madison)
November 15 —Green Drinks
December 8 – Tom Thompson - Gundersen Lutheran Envision program presentation at EcoPark, 7 p.m.
December 20– Green Drinks
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