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Reducing Toxins in Our Home
January 20, 2021
6:30-7:30pm
Join us to learn how you can reduce the hidden toxins and chemicals in your home that can make you sick, and replace them with safe alternatives.
You will be able to make cleaners and personal hygiene products with easily accessible products. Instead of using perfumes and synthetic ingredients to create artificial scents, enhancing with essential oils wipe out odors by reducing germs and leaving behind pure aromas.
This program will be led by Eileen Stefanski. It is a 30 minute presentation followed by Q&A.
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Unconscious Bias Workshop
January 27, 2021
6:00-7:30pm
Equity Matters. In our quest to live and work sustainably, we are continually making choices and decisions. Much of our thought process behind these choices is unconsciously influenced by our biases. Understanding what those biases are will help us to make equitable choices in work and our community. Through this virtual workshop, we’ll learn how to recognize, own and disrupt our biases. Please join us!
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Zero Waste Gatherings
Today we discuss sustainable practices for our holiday gatherings with Joanna Salinas. Learn some methods to cut back on waste during those gatherings with friends and family.
Green and Clean Beauty Products
Becca Tetzlaff joins us this month for a conversation about green and clean beauty products. She walks us through some of the problems in the industry today and gives a couple of alternative products to check out. Becca co-hosts the "Positively Green Podcast", and runs her blog, https://organicallybecca.com/.
Did you miss an episode from our first year of GreenCast? Listen to these and all past episodes at waukeshacountygreenteam.org/listen or wherever you get your podcasts.
- Holiday Gifting Guide
- Backyard Chickens!
- BONUS: Spanish Mini-Series #1
- Connecting Communities with Public Transit
- Sustainability and Coffee
- Sustainable Certifications
- Youth Sustainability Studies en Espanol
- Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Transportation
- Voting for Environmental Impact
- Sustainable Fashion
- Solar Talk: The Ins and outs of solar PV
- Chatting with the Garden Guru
- Meditation and Mindfulness
- Get to Know Us (Waukesha County Green Team)
- Earth Day Celebration in Isolation
- Recycling Bin Deep Dive
- Sustainability Networking
- Environmental Education
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Shop the WCGT Bookstore
Now when you buy books online, you can support both the Waukesha County Green Team and local bookstores. Our new online bookshop at:
This Month's Pick
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Braiding Sweetgrass
Our Bookstore includes books on gardening, conservation, Zero Waste, books for kids, fiction and humor, and much more! When you place an order from our shop, the Green Team receives 10% of the purchase price. Another 10% goes into a fund donated to independent bookstores.
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Solar installation at New Berlin Eisenhower Middle/High School
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Solar Interest Group
Are you passionate about solar energy? Do you want to work with others in the Waukesha Area to advance clean energy? So do we!!! We are working on big plans for a solar group buy next year in the County and would love to have you involved!
Solar Interest Group Meeting
February 11, 2021
6:30pm
Via Zoom
Email Karl at info@waukeshacountygreenteam.org for more information and to add your voice to this effort!
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Elm Grove Green Team
Next Meeting - January 26th at the Brookfield Library at 6:30! Come to re-connect and bring your ideas - or to participate virtually, contact debbaes@hotmail.com for a zoom link.
Elm Grove Green Team Meeting
January 26, 2021
6:30pm
Brookfield Library
Compost pick up service remains in full swing and folks can still sign up through Waste Not, LLC: https://www.wastenotcompost.org/sign-up-for-service.html
If you decide to sign up, after you get your welcome email, mention that you are part of the Elm Grove Green Team and you will receive a 50 cent discount:
Check out our FB page for additional information, including updates on meetings! https://www.facebook.com/groups/547595469299363
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Pewaukee Green Team
Join us January 28 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. for the launch of the Pewaukee Green Team!
Pewaukee Green Team Meeting
January 28, 2021
7:00pm
Online via Zoom
Sign up HERE for the zoom link!
Check out our Pewaukee FB page for additional information, including updates on meetings!
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Waukesha County
Creation Care Network
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Gift, Gratitude, and Joy:
Finding Our Sacred Roots in
God’s Creation
Designed as a virtual retreat or a six week Small Group discussion series, this program is built upon on Franciscan spirituality and a Christian foundation for Caring for Creation. Through videos, activities, discussions and scripture meditations, you will find not only a prayerful moment in these challenging times, but experience concrete ways you can impact the world.
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Green Team YouTube Channel
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Miss a presentation?
Most presentations are recorded and available on our YouTube Channel!
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Changing Habits for a Greener Community has a variety of displays that can be checked out on a daily or weekly basis. Each display covers a sustainability topic and includes specific takeaways to make an immediate impact.
This Month’s Feature Display is:
Pesticides in Our Food:
Making the Case for Buying Organic
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Have you heard of the “Dirty Dozen?" An interactive game reveals which produce we buy and consume typically contains the most and least amounts of pesticides. This displays how pesticides are absorbed by plants, their impact on bees and the importance of pollinators in growing food. Requires a 6’-8’ table.
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OSA Cards for sale
Take the Eco-Action Challenge
Every person has the power to minimize their individual environmental footprint by consuming less and making better choices. One Simple Act cards offer specific Eco-Actions we can all take as individuals to create sustainable environmental change. Working together and inspiring others to also take the Eco-Action Challenge, we can make a huge collective impact.
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Featured Card:
Test for Radon
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