Earth Day Fair 2025

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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)
Lola’s Lunchbox Food Truck Newch’s Eatery Food Truck Rooted Alien Vegan Bakery

BEVERAGES (3PM – 7PM)
Hodag Pete’s Coffee Lakeside Market

Brief Rotating Chats and Discussions (3PM – 6PM)
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)
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)

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)
Earth Day Band – A group of amazing musicians that volunteer their time once a year for the sustainability fair.

Fiber Arts Activities (3PM – 6PM)
– 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)
Shelley Novotny will exhibit some recycled art and will also lead an activity making recycled paper.

Vendors (3PM – 7PM)
If you would like to be a vendor, please register HERE.

Silent Auction (3PM – 6PM)
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.