Our October 5th meeting with Leslie Shad from Natural Habitat Evanston was chocked full on information. Our Wildlife Habitat Certification team is getting started. If you missed the meeting you can watch the full recoding here, on our new YouTube channel. Find helpful documents, including certification requirements, Leslie’s slide show and our vision statement here. …
By Francesca Kelly for Go Green Highland Park Autumn days on the North Shore are particularly beautiful. The scarlet and yellow trees stand in brilliant contrast to the sparkling blue of the lake, and it’s a lovely time to be outdoors, taking it all in. Those gorgeous leaves fall all too soon, however, and we …
Join Highland Park Public Library and Go Green HP to discuss Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, by Paul Greenberg. Author and fisherman Greenberg examines the history and current state of four fish that dominate our menus – cod, salmon, tuna and sea bass. Greenberg shows how the choices we make for …
By Francesca Kelly for Go Green Highland Park “High summer holds the earth.” These words of poet James Agee are in my head as I look out on our small but exploding garden. This is the greenest time of year, the time for grazing (if you’re a cow) and lazing (if you’re a dog or …
In partnership with the Highland Park Public Library, we invite you join us for a discussion about the book, The End of Nature, by Bill McKibben. July 6 from 1:30-3:00, we will meet in-person and hold the discussion outside on the library grounds. Read this environmental classic and see where progress has been made and ...
Learn about curbside composting with Bill Kenney from LRS and Jenny Futterman from GGHP. Hear about backyard composting with member Gail Taxy. Registration required, click here. Wednesday, May 5, 7 -8 pm.
How You — Yes, You — Can Keep Items out of Landfills, April 2021 By Francesca Kelly for Go Green Highland Park Highland Park’s Spring Bulk Trash Collection Day is coming up, running on four consecutive Saturdays from April 24 through May 15. Every spring, Highland Park residents take advantage of this great service, offered …
Go Green Highland Park invites Zach Waickman, Biodiesel Lab Manager for the Loyola University School of Environmental Sustainability, to discuss the environmental cost of our current supply chains. Learn about Scope 1,2,3 Emissions and how monitoring them along supply chains is reducing waste and associated greenhouse gas emissions. Register here.
Join Jenny Futterman from GGHP and fellow Highland Park resident Jon Carson from Trajectory Energy Partners for a community solar webinar LIVE from a solar field in Illinois. Meet a current subscriber and find out if we reach our goal of 100 sign-ups in HP. We’ll also cover program details, savings benefits, contract terms and …
Join the Highland Park Public Library(HPPL) and Go Green HP on Zoom to discuss, The Home Place: Memoirs of A Colored Man’s Love Affair With Nature, by Dr. Drew Lanham. From the publisher’s website: ““In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. I am, …
