Earth Day Sustainability Fair 2025
“Go Green, Save Green”
| Date: April 22nd, 2025 Time: 3 PM – 7 PM Location: Nicolet College – Lakeside Center Cost of entry: Free View full schedule of events HERE |
| FOOD (3PM – 7PM) |
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Lola’s Lunchbox Food Truck Newch’s Eatery Food Truck Rooted Alien Vegan Bakery |
| BEVERAGES (3PM – 7PM) |
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Hodag Pete’s Coffee Lakeside Market |
| Brief Rotating Chats and Discussions (3PM – 6PM) |
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| For the first portion of the event, we will have a number of brief rotating speakers this year that will provide information about and hold discussions on different renewable energy topics especially related to off-grid and money saving energy solutions. |
| The list of discussion facilitators/speakers will include: ➤ Tom Jerow – Landscaping for energy savings. ➤ Mike Haasl – Simple energy savings, focusing on simplicity and gardening. ➤ Jeff Wala – Off-grid living, heating a yurt with a rocket mass heater. ➤ Tim Chapman – Transitioning a house to run off of solar power. ➤ Rich Urban – Energy star home retrofit. |
| Featured Keynote Speaker Carol Dunbar (6:15 PM – 7:00 PM) |
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| Come listen to the riveting tale of how an author managed to find herself leaving city-life, to writing from a solar powered office on the second floor of a water tower in the woods of northern Wisconsin. She’ll share lessons learned and best practices on what it takes to live off the grid – in the woods. |
| About Carol: In the summer of 2002, Carol Dunbar moved off the grid to the woods of northern Wisconsin with her husband and their 15-month-old daughter. They set up an off-grid woodshop powered by a diesel generator and sold custom furniture, using wood from the trees they slabbed and air-dried on their land. In the fall of 2006 when their son was two years old, her husband had an accident with a table saw that became the springboard for her first novel, The Net Beneath Us. |
| Family Activities (3PM – 6PM) |
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Emilymae King with Elemental Roots will demonstrate live mushrooms interacting with cutting-edge technology. Explore the mesmerizing dance of ferrofluid responding to magnetic fields, and uncover the secrets of bio-magnetic frequencies. With hands-on interaction, captivating visuals (including handheld mycelium networks!), and insightful explanations, this display will ignite your curiosity about the interconnectedness of life!![]() There will also be many other fun and exciting activities for kids offered by Nicolet college, including: -Seed bombs -Earth Day Lego building -Decorate your own Earth Day bookmarks -Earth mosaics with scrap paper -Nature suncatchers. |
| Music (4PM – 6PM) |
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| Earth Day Band – A group of amazing musicians that volunteer their time once a year for the sustainability fair. |
| Fiber Arts Activities (3PM – 6PM) |
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| – Old School in Rhinelander will be leading a rag rug weaving activity. – Autumn Larch Farms will be offering a spinning demonstration and will offer a spinning wheel for people to try. They will also offer demonstrations on needle felting and mending. – The Northern Pines Fibershed will be putting on a flax demonstration (weather permitting). |
| Art Exhibit (3PM – 7PM) |
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Shelley Novotny will exhibit some recycled art and will also lead an activity making recycled paper.![]() |
| Vendors (3PM – 7PM) |
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If you would like to be a vendor, please register HERE. ![]() |
| Silent Auction (3PM – 6PM) |
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| Don’t miss the chance to participate in the silent auction featuring over $1000 worth of a wide variety items supporting the development of the community garden and the continuation of this annual sustainability fair. Drawings will be at 6 PM, you do not have to be present to win. |






Lakeside Market


