Wednesday can be a day of intellectual stimulation, social responsibility and Chicago exploration… if weather permits.

Tomorrow marks the first Green City Marketof the season. Get up early and venture to Lincoln Park between 7:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to peruse aisles of organic meat, produce, artisanal cheeses and many more foods for the stomach and the soul.

After fulfilling your inner locavore, stay downtown for the World Fair Trade Day Festival in the Loop’s Daley Plaza. Wherever you stand on the issue, you can still learn about or buy socially- and environmentally-friendly goods from clothing to kitchen supplies. Vendors such as Ten Thousand Villages will sell fair-trade products from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

If El frustrations deter downtown diversions, exercise your mind with NCDC’s panel discussion on American Immigration Policy. Community activists and Northwestern professors will debate in Tech M345 at 7 p.m.

The Senior VP of the Field Museum will come to Northwestern to discuss the evolution of evolutionary thought. You can explore the new Pancoe Life Sciences Pavilion building on 2200 Campus Drive and investigate how history, museums, science and religion interact to shape evolutionary philosophy. The event will run from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 2401.