A Tulane class, Pathways to Urban Sustainability, has been helping us in our endeavor to address various urban environmental problems for the past few years. The students have explored new methodologies for addressing carbon offprints from backyard gardens, and are now doing the … [Read more...]
Park(ing) Day
We had a blast spending Oct. 6 with the New Orleans’ Office of Resilience and Sustainability (ORS) for Park(ing) Day. As part of the nationwide event, municipalities and groups throughout the nation converted parking spaces to mini-parks for the day. Green Light New Orleans … [Read more...]
Community Connection – Gentilly Garden Group
Updated June 19, 2018 On May 19th, 2018 the Gentilly Community of Gardeners gathered once again, this time at Ms. Katie Carter's house, a group member who has worked long and hard to get her garden up and running again after a natural disaster destroyed it. While we ate … [Read more...]
Green Light in the news!
This month has been a newsworthy one here at Green Light New Orleans! Read more about the stories on our rain barrel and backyard vegetable garden installations. On Friday, April 7, WDSU news aired a segment chronicling one of Green Light's rain barrel installations. Watch the … [Read more...]
Urban Water Series
On April 26 and 27, the Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF) will host its next series of seminars on maintaining green infrastructure for a region. Entitled the "Urban Water Series," GNOF held its first set of workshops in December of last year. The focus of this month's … [Read more...]