Environmental Book Discussion, Thursday, April 25
1:30pm – 3:00 pm, Meeting Room 8, HP Library:

Join Go Green HP to discuss Soil, by Camille T. Dungy. This book brings together diversity, justice and environmental issues, and is a timely read as we prepare to dig in our own soil. Don’t hesitate to join us even if you haven’t read or finished the book. There’s always a nourishing conversation. Please register through HPPL to receive updates. This is an in person event.

Highland Park EV Car Show
Ravinia Festival West Lot, 301 Ravinia Park Rd. (enter off Green Bay), Highland Park
Saturday April 27, 9:00 – 11:00 am:

Go Green Highland Park and Drive Electric Earth Month are hosting an EV showcase in conjunction with the City’s Arbor Day Celebration. Whether you are in the market for a car, or are just curious about EVs, this is a great opportunity to see various EV models in one place and to talk with their owners about the experience of driving an EV. Electric bicycles will also be on display. This is a free, in-person event.

Love your EV? If you’d like to share your EV experience at the event please email us for more information.

Highland Park’s 2024 Arbor Day Celebration
Ravinia Festival West Lot, 301 Ravinia Park Rd. (enter off Green Bay), Highland Park
Saturday April 27, 9:00 – 11:00 am:

Join Go Green HP, the City of Highland Park and others for exhibits, demos and giveaways to brighten up your home and garden this Spring. Pick up free plants and trees, see electric tools in action, meet and greet with birds of prey, and learn how to plant a tree. There will be a touch-a-truck area, too.

International Compost Awareness Week 2024 (ICAW)
May 5-11

Go Green Highland Park is excited to kick off ICAW with a Compost Giveaway on Sunday, May 5. Bring your own buckets to the Rec Center parking lot and take home up to 20 gallons of beautiful compost made from our curbside yard waste and food scraps. Read more about the compost here. Find compost themed events all over Lake County and the greater Chicago area throughout the whole week. Register for the Lunch and Learn on Wednesday, May 8 from 1-2 PM, and join IFSCC to hear about the status of soil health, food scrap, and compost-related policy in Illinois and beyond. Thursday night you can log in with the family for an evening of art, music and celebration at the virtual Compost Cafe. Find the full list of events, registration and loads of composting resources on the ICAW2024 website.

Curious About Worm Bins? Come meet Robert at our “Adventures in Composting-Compost Giveaway”

Compost Giveaway on Sunday, May 5, 9:00 am-noon,

1207 Park Ave. W, Rec Center of Highland Park parking lot

We are so lucky that Robert was one of the many attendees at Habitat HP’s popular Gardening for Wildlife Event in March. While chatting with him, we learned that he has been vermicomposting, composting with the help of worms, for 2 decades, how cool! We know he will be a great resource for our readers and hope you can come by to meet him in-person. 

When asked how he picked worms and why he’s still using them today, Robert replied, “I’ve always been a proponent of composting and when I lived in an apartment in Chicago almost 20 years ago the best way to practice it was with a worm bin. So I bought one and it’s been working great all this time. It’s extremely easy to maintain, produces no odors and is a great way to convert food waste into a beneficial product. When I moved to Highland Park I added an outdoor tumbler compost bin and also a small fenced in area for all our leaves, cut grass, cardboard & newspaper. We compost 100% of our non-animal product food and yard waste.”