13:02:05 From Iris (she/her) Overstreet Strupp - Brookfield to Everyone: Hello I'm new. Joining from Brookfield 13:02:05 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: Welcome! Please rename yourself to add the name of your community. Click on the 3 dots in the top left corner of your photo to do this. 13:02:25 From Mary Hahn to Everyone: 1st time at a monthly meeting from Arlington Heights 13:02:46 From Susan Morse to Everyone: 1st time, from Morton Grove 13:03:02 From Janet Smietana Palatine Cool Cities to Everyone: Hello all i’m new to this meeting. sitting in today for Rita of Palatine Cool Cities 13:03:17 From Iris (she/her) Overstreet Strupp - Brookfield to Everyone: Virtual meetings help so much with accesslbility - it's greatly appreciated! 13:03:47 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: A special welcome to people joining for the first time. 13:04:43 From Dana Sievertson to Everyone: greetings from Prospect Heights. PHNRC 13:06:19 From Liz Kunkle, Winnetka to Everyone: Winnetka Congregational church and Go Green Event - An Evening with Jan Schakowsky Tuesday, March 22, 6:30 - 7:30pm (This is not a registration link; it is a link to join the event directly in real-time on March 22) https://www.winnetkacongregationalchurch.org/event/an-evening-with-jan-schakowsky/ 13:12:59 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: RTA is accepting input on its next 5 year strategic plan through March 11. You can respond to their survey at: https://wedaylight.surveysparrow.com/s/Emerging-Vision-Feedback/tt-215873?utm_source=Chicago+Chapter+Members&utm_campaign=8789e8671b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_01_03_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cbe2f24baf-8789e8671b-79356365. Please ask them to include “Fossil fuel free by 2040” as one of the guiding principals and “zero emissions” as an outcome. If you’d like more detail, email me and I will forward you the action alert from Climate Reality Project. I’m at kimstonehp@gmail.com. 13:17:26 From Beth Drucker - Wilmette to Everyone: We will have a Q & A later. You can put your questions in the Q & A 13:17:32 From Debbie Brown to Everyone: Did your neighbor plant into the pachysandra or remove it? 13:18:19 From Jac Casazza - Glen Ellyn to Everyone: How do you convert your regular lawn to one with a no-mow mix? How long would this take and is it better to start with certain areas (sun or shade) than others? 13:19:35 From Shital Pandit - Northbrook to Everyone: Is there landscaper/s that can help design a native garden? 13:23:32 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: The City of Highland Park includes language in its requests for proposals that plants and trees purchased by the City not be treated with Neonics. 13:24:08 From Jennifer Lucas to Everyone: Shital, definitely! Here are a couple. Try Brandon Losey at Vignocchi Landscaping or Dave Eubanks at eubanksenvironmental.com. 13:25:30 From Jennifer Lucas to Everyone: Great program on Plastic Pollution on April 26, 7 pm on zoom. Expert from U of I gives the facts. Very persuasive and important information that you can use in your efforts in your community. https://balibrary.librarycalendar.com/events/plastic-pollution-everywhere or see www.gogreenbarrington.org 13:27:30 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: Check gogreenillinois.org for an action alert on Bell Bowl Prairie. 13:30:44 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: We will get to questions after Scarlett. 13:31:21 From marion cartwright to Everyone: Conservation@Home is another certification program open to Lake and Cook County: https://openlands.org 13:31:24 From Linda Dean to Everyone: Can you you repost resources 1st presenter 13:32:23 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: @Linda - We will post the video of this meeting to GoGreenIllinois.org. 13:32:25 From Bernadette Knight, Northbrook to Everyone: Conservation at Home is another great program that has a checklist of what you should have in your yard and hits all the needs Leslie mentions for improving natural habitats in our home yards and gardens, 13:36:46 From Jenny Futterman, Highland Park to Everyone: Linda, here is a link to the recording of the presentation and resources Leslie shared with us last October http://gogreenhp.org/wildlife-habitat-certification/ 13:37:09 From Cynthia Grau - Park Ridge to Everyone: we want be involved too. we all can make our legislators aware of this. 13:38:08 From Karen McCormick to Everyone: Thank you Scarlett for your leadership on this issue. Some of our most important bills come from ideas from constituents. Some bills take a long time to get through the pipeline but I’ve seen many of them pass eventually. 13:38:20 From Scarlett Harper to Everyone: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14GeqyMVODizMGCAbs-Cex3x4FDxQcUS3hmCihwdSrgI/edit 13:38:40 From Leslie Shad (she/her), Natural Habitat Evanston to Everyone: Thank you, Scarlett. You have done a fantastic job. 13:39:03 From Leslie Shad (she/her), Natural Habitat Evanston to Everyone: Happy to help. 13:39:20 From Jac Casazza - Glen Ellyn to Everyone: Scarlett you are an inspiration! Keep it up :) 13:39:23 From Liz Kunkle, Winnetka to Everyone: Way to go, Scarlett! 13:39:33 From Cynthia Grau - Park Ridge to Everyone: You go girl! 13:39:34 From Tina Hostert to Everyone: Scarlett, have you sought the help of the school districts? 13:40:18 From Iris (she/her) Overstreet Strupp - Brookfield to Everyone: Scarlett, you're a rock star! Thanks so much! 13:41:25 From Andy Amend - Highland Park to Everyone: I think we have to have natural alternatives to mosquito issues when we work on support for no spraying. 13:42:33 From Mary Munday--Glenview to Everyone: Conservation@Home program will be presented (virtual) tomorrow evening, 7 pm, at Glenview Public Library. It's not too late to register. 13:44:28 From marion Cartwright to Everyone: We can buy wide rolls of single ply cardboard and roll it out to cover larger areas. Cardboard boxes create lots of “seams” you can roll 2 layers of single ply for better smother effect and it will decompose within a year. Best to water cardboard thoroughly before covering with compost and mulch. 13:48:35 From Dana Sievertson to Everyone: hey John.. 13:48:40 From Beth Drucker - Wilmette to Everyone: After the next two speakers, we will share community reports. Be sure to stay on to hear what your colleagues are up to. Help inspire others with your report! 13:50:53 From Sheri Latash-Glenview to Everyone: Cook County Forest Preserve referendum VoteYesForestPreserves.org. Contact Henrietta Saunders at hanksaunders@gmail.com or Beth Drucker 13:57:47 From Beth Drucker - Wilmette to Everyone: Much of the “tree” coverage that they are thinning are nonnative invasive like buckthorn 13:59:04 From yuh schabacker to Everyone: sorry I am late. Was in other event 14:03:11 From Jan Carter Seymour to Everyone: I created www.GoGreenCrystalLake.org late last year. It's focuses on Invasive Buckthorn and other invasives. 14:03:37 From Bernadette Knight to Everyone: Most of us have buckthorn on our properties that mature and impact the Forest Preserve - if you cut it down, Northbrook will take it away for free from your parkway, and many other villages have similar supportive services 14:03:47 From Beth Drucker - Wilmette to Everyone: We can all promote volunteering with Friends of the Forest Preserve teams. 14:04:10 From Iris (she/her) Overstreet Strupp - Brookfield to Everyone: I'm brand brand new to Go Green but really want to find incentives/funding for invasive species removal in homes... if there are existing programs i'd love to know them 14:05:56 From Laurie Breitkopf, Riverwoods to Everyone: Riverwoods has a cost share program for invasives removal. 14:07:31 From Pat Johns to Everyone: John great presentation! 14:08:11 From Iris (she/her) Overstreet Strupp - Brookfield to Everyone: I'll share this referendum with my Master Naturalist colleagues 14:10:44 From Debbie Brown to Everyone: Will using INaturalist be useful 14:16:30 From Tina Hostert to Everyone: Thank you Beth and all the presenters. I need to sign off but would definitely like more info on the Bee Bill - what is the timeframe that postcards need to be sent? Is there any more info that I can send out to local Glencoe residents (the address to send the postcards to so people don’t have to look up, the attachment did not appear complete but will look more closely later), etc. Thank you, I learned a lot today! Tina 14:17:01 From Emma Oschrin (she/her), Budburst, CBG to Everyone: My email again: eoschrin@chicagobotanic.org 14:17:14 From Liz Kunkle, Winnetka to Everyone: Probably - Go Green Reads Monthly Discussion Monday, March 14, 7 - 8pm The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, by Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlf-6hrT0tEtAHIU8eK267nkvxufQQjiXj 14:18:36 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: For community sharing, please raise your virtual hand if you are the designated representative to report for your group. 14:18:38 From Emma Oschrin (she/her), Budburst, CBG to Everyone: @debbie our observations are not connected to iNaturalist (we've been in discussion with them about this but technically it is really complicated) but we use their plant ID tool in our mobile app 14:20:18 From Liz Kunkle, Winnetka to Everyone: Special Go Green Reads - Book Stall Earth Day Event Friday, April 22, 12 - 1pm Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, by Julian Hoffman (author interview by bookseller Jon Grand) https://www.thebookstall.com/event/irreplaceable-fight-save-our-wild-places-special-go-green-reads-event-julian-hoffman 14:23:24 From Bernadette Knight to Everyone: Northbrook Garden club has a plant sale 13/14 May which will include a wide range of natives. GG Northbook will be participating at the event 14:26:23 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: People have put info about events into the chat. Please post these to gogreenillinois.org using the post an event button on the homepage. 14:28:46 From Benjamin Krumstok to Everyone: Hi Folks. Benjamin from Illinois Food Scrap Coalition. It is so very important to keep contaminants out of your Organics carts/bags and IFSC has a resource to help communicate and educate folks. Applies to both Food and to Landscape. You wouldn't believe what arrives at our IL Compost facilities. Follow this link to a PSA that we created last Spring. There are longer and shorter versions and you are welcome to edit, share, etc. however you would like. The key is to get the message out to the largest audience possible. Thanks. https://illinoiscomposts.org/education-and-outreach/a-neighborly-psa-if-it-grows-it-goes/ this one (3-4). Thanks for the opportunity! 14:31:18 From Cynthia Grau - Park Ridge to Everyone: https://www.oneearthfilmfest.org/ 14:34:22 From Jac Casazza - Glen Ellyn to Everyone: for Go Green Groups that are 501c3 - you may want to look into this grant with Nicor Gas - up to $5,000 for local environmental initiatives. Deadline is 5/31 https://patch.com/illinois/naperville/napervilles-nicor-gas-providing-100k-environmental-grants 14:36:50 From Bernadette Knight to Everyone: pam Karlson, event Northbrook Public Library sign up for Zoom meeting, Thursday, March 31, 7:00 to 8:00 pm 14:37:54 From Cynthia Grau - Park Ridge to Everyone: which city does yuh represent? 14:38:07 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: Lake Forest/Lake Bluff Greenminds 14:38:35 From Cynthia Grau - Park Ridge to Everyone: thanks! the utensil collection is great! 14:38:45 From Pat Johns to Everyone: Pam Karlson Birds in the Garden Link. https://visit.northbrook.info/event/6059309 March 31 14:39:12 From Cynthia Grau - Park Ridge to Everyone: AWFUL! 14:40:55 From yuh schabacker to Everyone: if any of you want to cosign a letter asking LF not to install these fields please let us know 14:41:02 From yuh schabacker to Everyone: our website is www.gorealgograsss.com 14:41:28 From yuh schabacker to Everyone: you can email us at gorealgograss@gmail.com or greenmindslflb@gmail.com 14:44:44 From marion cartwright to Everyone: Can we get a website for the Clean Sweep national roadside pick up program Beth mentioned. Do not see anything online 14:52:27 From Andy Amend - Highland Park to Everyone: Great book!! Highland Park has a book discussion in concert with our library and we did this book. Our next book is Elizabeth Kolbert’s book Under the White Sky. 14:54:40 From Benjamin Krumstok to Everyone: I have to run. Thanks everyone. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!! 14:55:53 From Melanie Schikore - Arlington Heights to Everyone: Arlington Heights Update: Our facebook group is open, our website is in the works. If you have friends in AH please encourage them to join us. We are meeting on March 23rd via Zoom. We will have a booth at our Farmer's Market and are in conversations about environmental concerns at the market including containers that are used at the market for food vending. We're hoping to have a sustainable yard tour. More soon! We look forward to connecting and collaborating with other groups. (Will also post our events at gogreenillinois.org) I can be reached at mschikore@gmail.com 14:59:41 From Andy Amend - Highland Park to Everyone: This was a GREAT meeting so worth my time!! 15:00:18 From yuh schabacker to Everyone: Thank you. You always put on great speakers 15:01:03 From Milton Hummel to Everyone: How do we see the recording? 15:01:21 From Kim Stone, Highland Park to Everyone: The recording will be posted to the website. gogreenillinois.org