Green Living Festival

The Mitchell Park Domes Education Center and Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful have partnered for the third annual Green Living Festival! 

This is a fun celebration of sustainable living in Metro Milwaukee that goes from 10:00am to 3:00pm throughout the Domes complex.  Kids can learn about recycling, energy, plant life and water from the Super Heroes for the Environment and listen to stories read by Mother Nature. There will be lots of fun activities for parents and kids including recycling relays, trash arts and crafts, animals, games, an electric-powered cycle, grease-fueled Mercedes and participation in “The Bee, The See, The Tree… and Thee” with Professor W.W. Oops!  A re-fashioned fashion show directed by Sam Kendall [Scarlet Fierce] and sponsored by Montessori High School will conclude the event. 

Transition Milwaukee members will be available to answer questions related to peak oil, local resiliency, renewable energy and more!  A vegetarian menu will be available for purchase by Zilli Hospitality Group.  Here’s what you can do to reduce the carbon footprint of this event:  bring your own water bottle, bag and utensils, carpool, ride the bus or bike to Mitchell Park Domes and spread the word!

Exhibitors and vendors include:  Amazon Herbs, Bay View Neighborhood Association, Center for Avian Rehabilitation and Education, City of Milwaukee Recycling Program, Community Supported Agriculture and Apiculture, Cream City Music, Daisy Blue Naturals, DNR Urban Forestry, Fair Trade for All, Focus on Energy, Four Corners of the World, Friends of the Domes’ Gifts Under Glass, Friends of Hank Aaron Trail, Future Green, Intelligent Nutrients, Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, Localicious, Miloganite, Milwaukee Area Resources for Vegetarianism, Milwaukee Biofuel Cooperative, Milwaukee Metro Audubon Society, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Milwaukee Time Exchange, Montessori High School, Mother Nature, Nature’s Sunshine, Our Milwaukee, Outpost Natural Foods, Power Down Week, Pragmatic Construction, Professor W.W. Oops@, Recycle Clear, REI PEAK@, Sparrow Collective, Stone Creek Coffee, Super Heroes for the Environment@, Transit Now, Transition Milwaukee, Urban Aquaculture Center, Urban Ecology Center, Victory Gardens Initiative, Wehr Nature Center, Wild Ones, Zilli Hospitality Group.

Find out how attainable and economical an eco-friendly lifestyle is and what’s new in going green--preserving community and environmental health.  Also, enjoy the Show Dome floral show premier of “Young at Heart.” 

One of Milwaukee’s best known landmarks, Mitchell Park Domes is located at 524 S. Layton Blvd. (27th Street).  General admission rates apply:  $6.50 for adults, Milwaukee County senior citizens are $5.00, children ages 6-17 years old are $5.00 and children 5 and under are free.  For more information, call Paula Zamiatowski at 649-9830, www.countyparks.com or www.milwaukeedomes.org or call Emily Brown at KGMB, 272-5060, x105, www.kgmb.org.