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Urban Ecology Center

Riverside Park
1500 E. Park Place
Milwaukee, WI 53211
(414) 964-8505
Fax: (414) 964-1084
uec@
urbanecologycenter.org
Hours:
Monday - Thursday
9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Friday & Saturday
9 am - 5 pm
Sunday
Noon - 5 p.m.

Washington Park
1859 N. 40th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53208
(Mailing address:
4145 W. Lisbon Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53208)

(414) 344-5460
Fax: (414) 344-5462
wkaridis@
urbanecologycenter.org

Hours:
Tuesday - Friday
4 - 7 p.m.
Saturdays
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Urban Ecology Center
will be closed:
January 1, May 30,
July 4, September 5, November 24, 25, December 24 & 25

Learn about how you can help us reach “the tipping point”

Learn about how you can help us reach “the tipping point”
Click the links below to join our online community! Click here to sign up for our weekly guide email On Facebook? Click here to join our Facebook fan page Follow us on Twitter! Join our network on LinkedIN! Find Riverside Park through Foursquare! Find Washington Park through Foursquare! What is all this stuff?
Click here to learn more abou the Rotary Centennial Arboretum & Milwaukee River Gateway
Learn more about the Rotary Centennial Arboretum & Milwaukee River Gateway
Click here to learn more about our 's upcoming Menomonee Valley branch
Learn more about
our upcoming Menomonee Valley branch

Friends & Neighbors

The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin

Cambridge Woods Neighborhood Association

Growing Power

Havenwoods State Forest

Healthy Communities Project

Lake Park Friends

Martin Drive Neighborhood

Milwaukee County Parks Department

Milwaukee Riverkeeper

Milwaukee River Work Group

Murray Hill Neighborhood Association

Neighbors United for Washington Park

Park People

Preserve Our Parks

Riveredge Nature Center

River Revitalization Foundation

Riverside Park Neighborhood Association

Riverwest Neighborhood Association

Schlitz Audubon Nature Center

Shorewood Conservation Committee

Stand Together Milwaukee

Transition Milwaukee

The Victory Garden Initiative

Washington Park Partners

Wehr Nature Center

Wild Ones

 

Green Resources

Whether you're building a worm composting system or sustainable building materials, the Urban Ecology Center can help you ways to change your everyday life in order to live more lighly on the earth. From compost to vermiculture, water collection to community supported agriculture, we can help you begin projects that will change your perspective and habits.

You’ll never look at a worm the same way again.

Community Connections

Be a Food Leader with the Victory Garden Initiative!

Be the first to participate in this unique, cutting edge program that combines knowledge of the food system, with community organizing, and the skills needed to grow your own food!  This certificate program, offered by the Victory Garden Initiative, is for people who want to become leaders in the food movement, in their personal or professional lives.  The 2-day retreat is the launching event for the one-year certification program, that also includes 2 day-long community organizing trainings, 8+ Edible Gardening Classes and much more. With supervision, participants will plan and execute a community food project during the one-year training period.

Saturday, February 25 & Sunday, February 26 (overnight)
Wellspring CSA in West Bend
For adults
Cost is $200, limited scholarships available
For more details, contact gretchen.mead@victorygardeninitiative.org or check for updates at www.VictoryGardenInitiative.org

Green Milwaukee

Learn about efforts to improve Milwaukee's water quality, reduce energy consumption, and stimulate economic development in the green technology sector. This site also lists local and statewide green events.

Safe Street Biking

If you bike to work, take a look at this site http://bicyclesafe.com/. It gives you some practical collision-prevention advice that isn’t very obvious at first, but makes a whole lot of sense. (Please note: they minimize the importance of wearing a helmet. Don’t listen to them! Riding smart AND wearing a helmet just makes you all the more safe.)

Interesting Links

Earth Day Network
Earth Day Network is an alliance of 5,000 groups in 184 countries working to promote a healthy environment and a peaceful, just, sustainable world through campaigns, events and personal actions.
http://www.earthday.net/

Ssustainable Communities Network
Linking citizens to resources and to one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities.
http://www.sustainable.org

Top dirtiest beaches in the USA
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/americas-most-polluted-beaches.html

10 greenest cities in the USA
http://green.yahoo.com/blog/greenpicks/249/top-10-u-s-cities-of-the-future.html

UWM Article about invasives in Lake Michigan
http://www4.uwm.edu/news/features/details.cfm? customel_datapageid_11602=1376414

The Milwaukee Green Map
The Milwaukee Green Map shows environmentally significant sites throughout Milwaukee County.
http://www.wisconline.com/greenmap/milwaukee

The Midwest Renewable Energy Association
A nonprofit network for sharing ideas, resources, and information with individuals, businesses, and communities to promote a sustainable future through renewable energy and energy efficiency.
http:://www.the-mrea.org