2024 Dates: April 18- 22

Join us for our seventh annual Every Day is Earth Day Festival. Our theme for this year is:
“Energy - Making it and Saving it.”

Every Day is Earth Day. This event celebrates the people, organizations, and businesses that uphold our sustainable culture in Door County and beyond. 

Every Day is Earth Day comprises an environmentally focused weekend of resource exchange, an open house, guest speakers, demonstrations, and activities for people of all ages.

The Every Day is Earth Day festival is an event like no other!

The 2024 festival kicks off on Thursday with an Energy Forum sponsored by the Climate Change Coalition. On Saturday we will host our festival at the Kress with booths and workshops focused on Earth Care. On Sunday the festival heads to Crossroads at Big Creek with demonstrations and outdoor activities.

The festival wraps with an Earth Day Celebration Open Mic at One Barrel Brewing on Monday with free pizza.

Thursday 4/18

Earth Day ENERGY FORUM hosted by Climate Change Coalition of Door County

6 pm at Door County Medical Center Sister Bay

Discuss practical actions to reduce our carbon footprint and improve life on earth.

Home Energy Efficiency: discuss steps to take now, at your home or work, with Focus on Energy’s Brady Steigauf

Solar Power: discuss and see how you can shift to solar and a more climate-friendly energy production and use.

Free Admission

Saturday 4/20

Earth Day Festival at the Kress

10am-4pm - Kress Pavilion

Featuring workshops, talks, activities for kids, and a marketplace of ideas featuring groups and organizations from all over the county and beyond. including a special visit by Open Door Bird Sanctuary. Lunch will be available for purchase from Greens 'N Grains.

Workshop schedule here.

Free Admission

Sunday 4/21

Earth Day Festival at Crossroads

With the theme, "Capturing the Sun," the event will feature guided nature hikes, a Habitat Healer tree planting with The Big Plant, demonstrations, Self Guided Nature Journaling Hikes, citizen science, and other family-fun activities. Free

Free Admission

Monday 4/22

Earth Day Celebration Open Mic

Join us for an Earth Day Celebration at One Barrel Brewing in Egg Harbor. Bring your Music, Stories, and Poems inspired by the Earth. We’ll have free pizza from Pizza Bros while it lasts, with beverages for purchase. $1 of each pint will benefit the Every Day is Earth Day Festival!

Free Admission

  • "If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development."

    • Gaylord Nelson

  • "There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets."

    • Gaylord Nelson

  • "Reaching a general understanding that sustainability is the ultimate issue will finally bring us face-to-face with the political challenge of forging a sustainable society during the next few decades. It is a challenge we can meet if we have the leadership and the political will to do so."

    • Gaylord Nelson