Friday, April 22, 2011

Tomorrow, critics of nuclear power will walk the seven miles between two Wisconsin nuclear reactor sites commemorating the 25 years since the radiation catastrophe at Chernobyl. The “Walk for a Nuclear-Free Future” will also mark the sixth week of the ongoing radiation releases from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi reactor complex in Japan. The event is free and open to the public. This begins at noon near the one-reactor Kewaunee complex by Two Rivers, Wisconsin and proceeds south along Highway 42, arriving outside the two-reactor Point Beach site around 3. A picnic is planned in the nearby Point Beach State Park. Contact Nukewatch at 715-742-4185 for more information.

Tomorrow, Olbrich Botanical Gardens holds its yearly Spring Pansy sale. It starts at 10 and continues while supplies last. The pansies are planted in fiber pots instead of hard plastic pots. The fiber pots are compostable, not plantable. There are three plants per pot. This is at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, 3330 Atwood Avenue, beginning at 10. Check www.olbrich.org for more details.

Tomorrow afternoon, the Habitat ReStore holds an Earth Day Party. This features live music from Richard Wiegel of the Midwesterners, more than 25 earth-friendly exhibition booths providing information on green building, sustainable living and other recycling/reuse options and kids activities. Sustain Rain Barrels will also be available. The event is free and at the Habitat ReStore, 208 Cottage Grove Road, from noon to 4. For more information, call the store at 661-2813.

Tomorrow afternoon, Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative and UW Slow Food will be hosting chef Kurt Michael Friese. He will be discussing his new book, "Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail", which he co-authored with agroecologist Kraig Kraft and ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan. The book examines global climate change and its' effect on place-based foods through the lens of the ubiquitous chile pepper. This is at Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative, 426 West Gilman Street at 2. Check rainbowbookstore.org for more details.