Join the Friends of Grand Rapids Parks for a week of celebrating our beloved parks! From February 20th to February 22nd, 2024, we invite you to participate in the 2024 Love Your Parks Week. Prepare for fun-filled events with exciting activities, delicious food, and more! During this special week, we aim to strengthen our bond…

Live & Learn Series - Farmer Appreciation & Trivia Night! How much do you know about farming and producing food? Kick back with a good brew and test your agricultural acumen with some farm trivia at this family-friendly event to celebrate our local farmers. We all love our local farmers for growing our food, but…

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 from 6 - 7 PM The City of Grand Rapids published a community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory. The inventory includes the City’s community-wide, science-based GHG/carbon emissions reduction goal of 62.8% reduction per capita by 2030 and 100% reduction per capita by 2050. This inventory is being used to help develop mitigation strategies that can…

Event Info: Join committed partners, area business leaders, program participants, and community champions for an engaging and inspiring evening. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of People First Economy, our program areas, our financials, and some new friends. We’re excited to include some Local First favorites like a Mini Fork Fest, a Member…

Public talk on the history of honeybees and beekeeping in the Great Lakes region & how honeybee-driven agriculture changed our landscape. This is part of the 15th Annual Local History Roundtable conference. This year's keynote presenter is Dr. Jennifer Bonnell, Associate Professor of History at York University. She will speak about her forthcoming book, Foragers of a…

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Line 5 is a 645-mile oil pipeline that transports 22 million gallons of crude oil and natural gas liquids every day from western Canada to Eastern Canada through the Great Lakes. However, this pipeline is currently in a state of significant deterioration, posing a catastrophic risk to the precious freshwater resource that is the Great…

The WMEAC Book Club meets the first Wednesday of each month from 6:30-7:30pm. We will continue to meet virtually over Zoom, and the link is sent out before the meeting and not posted publicly. The book club sponsored by Books & Mortar independent bookstore, which offers 10% discount on book club titles when you purchase…

Are you interested in learning about the hidden world of our streams and freshwater insects? Well what are you “wading” for? Join WMEAC’s Stream Keepers today! We host a network of volunteers who record information on streamside habitats, physical characteristics and the aquatic macroinvertebrate populations living in our local waterways. Aquatic “macros” play a very important role in our…

Description For kids 8-14 Explore engineering at the library! Learn from environmental engineering professionals, then learn how to build your own water filter! Learn more.