Go Green Wilmette Hosts Three Library Events

Now that 2012 is moving rapidly along, be sure to mark your calendar for three very exciting opportunities at the . Arrange baby sitters, cancel other activities, be there!  

At 1 and 7 p.m. Tuesday Jan. 24 the film Ingredients will be shown. On Monday, January 30 at 7 p.m. you can catch the lecture "The Climate Crisis - 2012 Update" by Jess Reese. On Saturday, Feb. 4 Jeanne Pinsof Nolan talks about how to grow your own food.

Each of these events provides the opportunity to gain helpful and practical information. If you can manage all three, you won’t be disappointed, but do participate in at least one of these special offerings.

1. Ingredients the film: The local food movement takes root.

American food is in a state of crisis. Health, food costs and our environment are all in jeopardy. A movement to put good food back on the table is emerging. What began 30 years ago with chefs demanding better flavor has inspired consumers to seek relationships with nearby farmers. This is local food.

2. “The Climate Crisis-2012 Update” is a talk by Jess Reese. She is a volunteer with the Climate Change Reality Project, a Brookfield Zoo employee and ocean expert. She will bring us up to date on climate change issues and talk about possible solutions and how we can take meaningful steps to bring about change.

What is The Climate Reality Project?

Climate change is not your fault because of the car you drive, the lights you turn on or the food you eat. The climate crisis is our problem. Real, systemic and innovative solutions can only come when we address it together. That’s what The Climate Reality Project will do without doubt, without delay and with your help.

The Climate Reality Project is bringing the facts about the climate crisis into the mainstream and engaging the public in conversation about how to solve it. We help citizens around the world discover the truth and take meaningful steps to bring about change.

Jess had known about the devastating effects of global warming and how it affects coral reefs, but after watching An Inconvenient Truth and learning that coral reefs are now contending with another climate related issue, acidic seas, she is committed to spending her considerable energies saving coral reefs and the animals that live on them. Jess, who works at Brookfield Zoo presenting the dolphin show, also is a volunteer Caribbean Reef Diver at the John G. Shedd Aquarium. She has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean and recently visited the South Pacific islands in Fiji and Austalia's Great Barrier Reef. During her dives on these trips she has witnessed first hand, the decline in the ocean's health and worries that if we do not act now to stop this crisis, the beauty of the ocean may not be there to share with future generations. Jess urges you to be the change that you want to see in the world.

3. On Saturday, February 4 Jeanne Pinsof Nolan tells how to grow your own food. What a great chance this is to hear Jeanne Pinsof Nolan, The Organic Gardener. Learn how you can start growing your own food in your yard or in a community garden near you! This takes place at 2 p.m. at the Wilmette Public Library.