2nd Season Recycling donated a heap of compost for the recent Middleton Clean & Green event. Much of the compost was taken during the event, but there is still a huge pile leftover!

The compost is located in a field near the 'T' intersection of Market Street and Aspen Commons in Greenway Station.

Anyone and everyone is invited to come and take as much mulch as you want, until the pile is gone.

The City of Middleton Sustainability Committee will host area residents and offer answers to questions about how to make their homes more earth-friendly at the Middleton Green Homes and Businesses Tour on Sunday, Sept. 12 from noon to 3 p.m.

Local home and business owners, as well as area experts, will be on hand at locations throughout Middleton to showcase earth-friendly practices and technologies that are helping area residents, businesses and public institutions save natural resources and money.

Residents will learn about solar electric and solar hot water, geothermal, recycling opportunities and sustainable landscaping and gardening practices. Find out how energy efficiency improvements can save you money and see a home energy audit -- including a blower door test -- in action.

On Thursday, Sept. 2 at 7:00 p.m., "Green Tuesdays -- The Thursday Edition" will be held at the Middleton Public Library.

The event features a screening of the award-winning film "The Yes Men Fix the World" and Tony Hayward of BP has been invited to speak. 

Green Tuesdays, a free series of films, presentations and conversations on sustainability, expands this fall from one Dane County community to five. In 2008, the non-profit group The Natural Step Monona partnered with the Monona Public Library to start Green Tuesdays.