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GiveNOLA Day is June 2!

June 1, 2020 By Brett Thorne

This Tuesday is GiveNOLA Day, and all of us at Green Light New Orleans hope you will help support our work by making a contribution if you’re able. Green Light provides rain barrels, gardens and light bulbs to New Orleans-area residents to help our city become more sustainable … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backyard Vegetable Garden Program

Green Light is hosting volunteers again!

June 1, 2020 By Brett Thorne

In March, Green Light New Orleans made the difficult decision to cancel all of our scheduled volunteer events due to the coronavirus. Our volunteer coordinator Jillian Welsh picked up the slack by prepping rain barrels to be delivered to artists throughout the community, and our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Green Light Volunteer, Rain barrel

Green Light installs gardens and rain barrels at mid city day care

May 9, 2020 By Andreas Hoffmann

Green Light installed four backyard vegetable garden beds and 2 rain barrels at Little Professor Day Care in Central City in December 2019. The garden build was initiated by Shelly Dolan, a nurse educator at LSUHealth in New Orleans. "Children, who do not regularly consume diets … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backyard Vegetable Garden Program

Will you join Green Light New Orleans in the fight to save the city?

February 14, 2020 By Brett Thorne

The driving force behind Green Light New Orleans has always been the idea that small, individual actions, repeated many thousands of times by thousands of people, can add up to make a huge difference. This was true of Green Light’s first program, which empowered individual … [Read more...]

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Nasdaq volunteers with Green Light New Orleans

January 9, 2020 By Andreas Hoffmann

A big THANK YOU to the 30 volunteers who visited us from Nasdaq on January 7. They kicked off their work week volunteering here at Green Light New Orleans.  Together they were able to prep 20 rain barrels, which involves a lot of elbow grease: scrubbing and cleaning the inside of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Green Light Volunteer, Rain barrel

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