Learn what local organizations are doing:

As a Bird City of Wisconsin member, the city of Whitefish Bay has green space care and conservation plans to ensure the habitats and health of birds in our city. This includes reducing predators, planting native plants, and other efforts that not only help the bird population, but also help the environment here.

Green Day in the Bay is the biggest environmental event each year in Whitefish Bay around the May 6th. It has events, education, drop off locations for different goods that you can't recycle normally, clean up efforts, and more. It is a fantastic way to learn about your local environment and help do your part.

The Whitefish Bay Garden Club has been motivating members of the community to start and maintain gardens for over 60 years. They are responsible for public gardens throughout Whitefish Bay and are a great resource if you wish to start your own. They have done a huge part in making our community greener. 

The Green Team at the Whitefish Bay Middle School has been planting native plants outside the middle school, setting up an extensive composting system in their cafeteria, and more. 

Live in Milwaukee and enjoy hiking? Hosted by the Rotary club of Milwaukee, HKE MKE will lead hikes through parks in Milwaukee to support the Urban Ecology Center. You can also rent equipment for outdoors activities instead of buying them. This year it is being hosted Sep. 27th-Oct.3rd.

They help refurbish falling apart, concrete schoolyards into green playgrounds. They involve and educate the kids and the community in designing and building the new green spaces. 

KGMB is an organization that works to educate and connect kids with their environment. They work to clean up communities and encourage participation in service activities. 

Did you know there is a sustainable concert in Milwaukee every year? It is called Rock the Green and they are a zero-waste concert that tries to reduce, reuse, or recycle more than 90% of the waste created at the concert. 

The MMSD (Metropolitan Milwaukee Sewerage District) in Milwaukee  deals with water usage, collection, infrastructure, cleaning, and more. They capture thousands of gallons of water and wastewater each year with a 98.4% collection rate to clean it. They also sell plants and rain barrels so that you can capture water too

Mayor Tom Barrett introduced a sustainability plan for Milwaukee in 2013 which had plans for progress to be made until 2023. So far it has enacted sustainability guidelines for new buildings, gotten more homes to use renewable energy, used vacant land for urban ecosystems, and more. 

Milwaukee's Harbor District was once closed off to the public. It had polluted waters and abandoned industrial buildings. The city has since begun to revamp the district and as part of this has cleaned up the rivers and redone the river bank so that it mimics the natural habitats of aquatic creatures and plants.