Realize your dream of viewing the Northern Lights, getting the tools and advice you need to finally catch an Aurora display near your home. With a deeply felt passion for the Aurora, Melissa F. Kaelin has helped hundreds of people see the Northern Lights for the first time. She is the Founder of the Michigan Aurora Chasers and the author of Below the 45th Parallel: The Beginner’s Guide to Chasing the Aurora in the Great Lakes Region.

This event includes a signing with books for sale.

Learn about how renewable energy infrastructure has developed in Ann Arbor, and how we can continue reducing our city’s carbon footprint by effectively using our natural resources. Discussions will cover new residential and commercial benefits for green electricity generation through the Inflation Reduction Act, and how the climate millage will be used to continue advancing Ann Arbor’s energy sector.

This event is in partnership with the City of Ann Arbor Office of Sustainability and Innovation.

Join us for a short hike to identify native plants, collect seeds and talk about rain gardens. Native plant seeds in our rain gardens are an important source of food for wildlife and can be a wonderful opportunity to collect seed for planting projects. This hike is part of our Seed to Community Series. This hike will be led by Catie Wytychak from the Water Resources Commissioner’s Office, steward Michael Benham & Jonathan Parker.

Location: Swift Run Marsh, meet at Eddy Street Verle Ave. Street parking available.

Join us to learn about the circular economy, and resources available to create a community where we reduce waste, reuse products and materials, and regenerate nature. Illustrate the ways you see for eliminating waste by crafting a paper quilt square to help us build a community paper quilt.

This event is in partnership with The Ecology Center Ann Arbor.

Join us for an interactive science-based experience with the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum and Leslie Science & Nature Center.

How you can fund your next home electrification project, to decrease your home's carbon footprint, and utility bill? This event will review funding opportunities through the Inflation Reduction Act and Ann Arbor's new climate millage, as well as emerging technologies that could reduce the financial burden of your home's energy needs.

This event is in partnership with the City of Ann Arbor Office of Sustainability and Innovation.

Join Lucy as she speaks with Alice Henderson, author of the thrilling Alex Carter Suspense series, about her new book in this series, "A Ghost of Caribou"

Alice is a wildlife researcher whose love of wild places inspired her Alex Carter thriller series, which includes A Solitude of Wolverines, A Blizzard of Polar Bears, and now, A Ghost of Caribou. This series blends Alice's scientific work with her creative work to provide readers with an experience full of suspense, survival, and the animal world.

The Gardening and DIY Fest is a day-long celebration of gardening, nature and the DIY spirit! There will be a vendor fair in the Lobby with handmade clothes, jewelry, bath products, fibers, art, flowers and plants, as well as talks on beekeeping, natural dyes, and more.

To see the full slate of events and vendors, see aadl.org/diyfest.

Have you ever wanted to save your seeds, but didn’t know where to start? This fun and informative presentation from author Bevin Cohen highlights the importance of saving and sharing our garden seeds and how to successfully do it at home! Learn why planting, saving, and sharing seeds is essential to the cultivation of sustainable neighborhoods and healthy communities. Bevin will share practical tips and advice through a blend of hands-on demonstration and lecture. Books will be available for purchase after the presentation.

Get ready to start your seeds indoors! We'll be making seed starting pots using old newspapers. When the plants are ready, the biodegradable newspaper pot can be planted directly in a garden or larger container. Take home a few planted seed pots today, and the know-how to make more for future plantings.