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A report on Isthmus Green Day 2010

Programming at the third annual Isthmus Green Day at Monona Terrace yesterday aimed to counter that skepticism, with information ranging from conserving local land to promoting healthy farming practices. Did I manage to see everything? No. But every year I make the rounds of the booths at Green Day and learn something new. >More Today is Isthmus Green Day!

Isthmus' third annual Green Day expo is on at Madison's Monona Terrace, Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets are $5, but you can get in free by.... >More WPT Behind the Scenes with Chef Rick Bayless (video)

Chef Rick Bayless last visited Madison in December 2008 for an appearance on Wisconsin Public Television. This video finds the chef discussing his love of Mexican cuisine, his television series, and "what keeps drawing him back south of the border." >More Bill McKibben issues an urgent call to action
Save the planet -- now!

Environmentalist Bill McKibben has been writing about climate change since publishing The End of Nature in 1990. In his 10th book, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007), he argued for the importance of local food systems and local culture in the fight against global warming. >More Chef Rick Bayless: Changing the world, one meal at a time
For the winner of Top Chef Masters, preparing food isn't just a vocation. It's a way of life

We live in the days of the celebrity chef. There are so many cooking competitions on television, it's hard to keep them straight. It's possible for an avid television viewer to have a "favorite chef" whose restaurant he's never visited, whose food he's never tasted. >More Presenting the Isthmus Green Day 2010 schedule

Get ready to shop, eat and celebrate the environment and so much more at the third-annual Isthmus Green Day at Monona Terrace on Saturday, April 17. The eco-celebration will be bigger and better this year, with the addition of a celebrity chef, national speakers, and a green wedding. >More Bill McKibben to speak at Isthmus Green Day 2010

As part of their mission of connecting people and ideas for a better state, the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is pleased to announce they will bring author and environmentalist Bill McKibben to the 2010 Isthmus Green Day on April 17 at Monona Terrace. >More Chef Rick Bayless to keynote Isthmus Green Day 2010

Rick Bayless -- award-winning chef-restaurateur, author and television personality -- is the keynote presenter at the 2010 Isthmus Green Day at Monona Terrace on Saturday, April 17. >More Save the date for the Isthmus Green Day Wedding: Saturday, April 17

Get ready to celebrate when Kelly Starr-King and Mike Drake declare their love for each other -- and Mother Earth -- in a "sustainable" wedding ceremony at Isthmus Green Day, Saturday, April 17. >More Schenk-Atwood's green machine
Denied funding, neighbors launch their own sustainability initiative

Twink Jan-McMahon calls it "a blessing in disguise." Steve Steinhoff says, "It's the most successful unsuccessful grant I've ever written." >More Madison green charter school plan advances

The idea to start Madison's first green charter school is getting a favorable early reception from the Madison Board of Education. Says board member Ed Hughes, "You'd have to be brain dead not to be excited about this project." >More Green charter school for Madison seeks green light
Backers are buoyed by trends, but will school board go along?

It's an idea that's been brewing in David Wasserman's mind since the 2001-02 school year, when he did his student teaching at a green school in Portland, Ore. Now, he hopes the time is right to launch an environmental charter school in Madison. >More A tree falls in Madison
Livable cities need healthy trees. Are we doing enough to protect ours?

I imagine a sniper in the sky, picking them off, one by one. Ping! There goes a tree on Waubesa Street, chopped down without warning during construction. Boom! Down comes a maple on Talmadge, felled due to a neighbor's wish to build a new driveway. Bam! There goes an oak in Olin Park, victim of a fungal disease known as oak wilt. >More Cool tin roofs: Metal roofing will last for centuries
Aluminum shingles are a good -- and green -- bet to cut overhead costs

As eco-friendly materials go, aluminum is generally not what first springs to mind. But if your home's roof needs repair, and you want to do it in an earth-healthy way, metal may well be the way to go. >More Recycling, not banning plastic bags

George Dreckmann, the city of Madison's recycling conquistador, concedes that the bag program will likely "not pay for itself" either through money from revenues from bags or savings in landfill tipping fees. But he argues that the environmental gains make the program worthwhile. >More

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