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World Refugee Day

June 19, 2018 By Amelie Desormeaux

World Refugee Day

Green Light New Orleans was excited to participate in this year's World Refugee Day celebrations. We got to be one of the many organizations offering our services and showing a welcoming face to our community members- some new and some who have been here for many years. We had a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Events, Green Light New Orleans, Stormwater Management, Uncategorized Tagged With: Action, Community, Environmental Education, GreenLightNewOrleans, stormwater management, Sustainable Home

Tulane Pathways to Urban Sustainability

May 2, 2018 By Amelie Desormeaux

Tulane Pathways to Urban Sustainability

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...]

Filed Under: Green Light Spotlight, Stormwater Management Tagged With: Action, Community, Environmental Education, GreenLightNewOrleans, Living Sustainably, stormwater management, Volunteer

Volunteer Spotlight: Jackie and Ben

March 27, 2018 By Amelie Desormeaux

Volunteer Spotlight: Jackie and Ben

Nearly every day, there is an awesome volunteer at Green Light New Orleans helping install rain barrels, paint garden beds, schedule light bulb routes, etc. But twice a week, we are graced with two very exceptional volunteers named Jackie and Ben. They showed up one day eager to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Green Light New Orleans, Green Light Spotlight, Green Light Volunteer, Teaching Garden Tagged With: Action, Community, green light volunteer, GreenLightNewOrleans, stormwater management, teaching garden, Volunteer

Volunteer This Winter Break!

November 29, 2017 By Amelie Desormeaux

Volunteer This Winter Break!

Winter break is right around the corner and we at Green Light New Orleans would be grateful to host your group of volunteers! For schools and educational groups we offer a variety of service-learning packages in each of our program areas- energy-efficiency, permaculture and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CFL Program, Green Light Gardener, Green Light New Orleans, Green Light Volunteer, Uncategorized Tagged With: Action, CFL, Community, Community Action, energy efficiency, Environmental Education, green light volunteer, GreenLightNewOrleans, stormwater management

Green Light in the news!

April 24, 2017 By Shakthi Unnithan

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...]

Filed Under: Stormwater Management, Uncategorized, Vegetables Tagged With: garden, news, rain barrel, stormwater management

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