12:55:26 From Kim Stone to Waiting Room Participants: Welcome! We will let everyone in just before 1. 13:06:59 From Liz Kunkle to Everyone: Go Green Winnetka is planning a solar tour on or around Sept. 24! 13:07:20 From David Bryant Go Green LaGrange to Everyone: I must leave for a 1:30 meeting 13:11:32 From Benjamin Krumstok to Everyone: sorry...I didn't realize my mic was hot...thanks for muting. 13:11:53 From Sarah Sanford to Everyone: Bill number is? 13:12:07 From Liz Bowman to Everyone: 3125 13:12:08 From Kim Stone to Everyone: HB 3125. 13:15:24 From Shital Pandit to Everyone: Can you elaborate a bit on how this will be funded 13:15:43 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: Go Green Wilmette is trying to “green” our multi-unit residential buildings. This is an important part of greening buildings. 13:16:01 From Sheri Latash to Everyone: Would this be part of the stretch codes the Capital Development Board will be developing ? 13:17:36 From Marcus to Everyone: And what about recycling/diposing of all the batteries when electric cars go mass market? Maybe cars are a distraction from a different issue… 13:20:10 From Kim Stone to Everyone: In response to the questions above, the cost of including wiring for electric charging is minimal in new construction so the builder would pay for this as part of construction. This is separate from the stretch codes, which will not be in place for several years. 13:22:16 From Kim Stone to Everyone: There are efforts to recycle vehicle batteries as the number of EVs increases. It's likely that the solution to reducing the impact of transportation will involve a combination of electrification and reducing vehicle miles travelled, which is why we put both topics into this program. Public transit is also a key part of this. 13:31:30 From Edith Makra to Everyone: Register for these events, and catch the recording of our first event here https://www.metroplanning.org/news/10330/Taking-Climate-Action-by-Prioritizing-Walking-Biking-and-Transit 13:32:47 From Marcus to Everyone: https://www.metroplanning.org/events/virtual.html?viewpastevents=1 13:33:11 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: If you have some comments to ask, please let us know in the chat and we can call on you. 13:33:41 From Liz Bowman to Everyone: Des Plaines 13:33:47 From Audrey Wennink, MPC to Everyone: Are people in your communities asking for more opportunities to bike and walk? What is the constituency advocating for biking and walking infrastructure? How can they be leveraged more to influence leadership? 13:35:00 From Debbie Brown to Everyone: I’m not aware of anything along these line in Deerfield. 13:35:48 From Iris Overstreet Strupp - GG Brookfield to Everyone: I invited representatives from Cycle Brookfield, but I'm not sure if they're on the call. They've been involved with ATA. The village adopted our Active Transportation Plan in 2017. 13:36:09 From Marcus to Everyone: Here in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff, I created a Facebook group so we could begin finding like minded concerned citizens. https://www.facebook.com/groups/375785860608610 13:36:53 From Iris Overstreet Strupp - GG Brookfield to Everyone: http://cyclebrookfield.com/ 13:37:19 From Janet Smietana to Everyone: palatine has Bike Club which has worked with the village to develop bike friendly infrastructure improvements 13:37:33 From Andy Amend to Everyone: Beyond all of what has been discussed, it seems like the building taking place near downtown areas would have a huge impact and starting place to encourage less motor vehicles 13:37:53 From Jacquelyn Casazza - GG Glen Ellyn to Everyone: Glen Ellyn - there's a group who have been trying to build the East Branch DuPage River Bike Trail here for YEARS. They are making slow and steady progress. We have great access to a few trails, but bikes don't seem integrated into our village plan. 13:38:11 From Charlie Saxe to Everyone: We have seen the development of some good facilities in Skokie however, it is still difficult to get beyond biking as recreation rather than transportation. We recently started a group - Skokie Bike Network - to help organize a constituency for cycling in Skokie. One recent success has been the plan for the rebuild of Crawford Ave from Oakton to Old Orchard Road to include bike lanes. 13:38:25 From Cheryl Vriezekolk to Everyone: one challenge is for example educating drivers to watch for cyclists and give them the 3 feet they require according to law 13:38:41 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: Bikewalkwilmette.org 13:39:18 From Jay Futterman to Everyone: City zoning has a big role here. Less sprawl and more infill 13:39:57 From Laurie Breitkopf to Everyone: The Deerfield Road widening will include a multi-use path for two miles through Riverwoods. 13:41:08 From Nancy Halliday to Everyone: Glenview has an active bicycling program. 13:42:15 From Sheri Latash to Everyone: Glenview has contracted with A. Epstein to update the village Bikeability/Walkability Plan. Contract is for $104,000. Greener Glenview will be working to eliminate the problems Kim & Beth identified with neighbors being able to reject sidewalk installation.. 13:42:53 From Cheryl Trilling to Everyone: Lincolnwood turned railroad tracks into bike/walking paths, and one goes from Chicago on one end to Dempster in Skokie. 13:44:15 From Dudley Onderdonk to Everyone: Glencoe contracted with ATA for a walking & biking plan to include financial support from the Park District and School District 13:45:07 From BERNADETTE KNIGHT to Everyone: Northbrook tried to implement a sidewalk plan in 2019- 2020 adding sidewalks on every street within a half-mile of a school and split the cost with residents. Unfortunately the cost split motivated a huge push-back from residents impacted and as far as I know the plan was put on hold or abandoned in 2020 13:45:11 From Steven Bachta to Everyone: I work with Romona school in Wilmette to promote biking to school through the school’s Green Team. Weather obviously makes this difficult in winter, but overall kids love to bike and scoot to school once they try it. For my family, it can be hard to go long distances with kids. I think more bus routes might help, have not investigated but I’m sure most buses allow bikes to be racked on them? 13:46:48 From Seema Keshav to Everyone: I agree Steven, I think we need more bus routes. Hard to do chores with kids on a bike. 13:46:52 From Sheri Latash to Everyone: It's more than just the ordinance! 13:47:25 From Jacquelyn Casazza - GG Glen Ellyn to Everyone: @Steven Bachta I have thought about trying to do a bike to school week, but worried about equity issues (not all kids have access to a bike, or an adult to take them, or live too far). Did this come up at all? Would love to chat offline more 13:47:40 From Edith Makra to Everyone: CMAP board meeting info here https://cmap.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=964671&GUID=628D8A20-8A21-4253-8512-EC9033E529A0&Options=&Search= 13:48:00 From Liz Bowman to Everyone: Any good resources to create a local map and show bike paths, or areas missing walkability? 13:49:35 From Audrey Wennink, MPC to Everyone: Here is a resource with data on all the sidewalks in the region: https://datahub.cmap.illinois.gov/dataset/regional-sidewalk-inventory 13:49:48 From Steven Bachta to Everyone: Re: Bike to school week, we did not make anything mandatory, just promoted to try it of you we’re able. You can email me at sbachta@gmail.com with more questions 13:49:56 From Audrey Wennink, MPC to Everyone: You can use the CMAP data to help identify gaps 13:52:58 From Janet Smietana to Everyone: https://bikepalatine.com 13:53:16 From Tracey Edsey Park Ridge to Everyone: Govt. has no funds. Needs money for more pressing issues 13:53:44 From Tracey Edsey Park Ridge to Everyone: Sorry. Our local govt has no funds. 13:54:09 From Jacquelyn Casazza - GG Glen Ellyn to Everyone: @Tracey Edsey for the East Branch DuPage River Trail project they actually got money through Sean Casten's office (our congressional representative in Glen Ellyn) 13:54:39 From Tracey Edsey Park Ridge to Everyone: Thank you. 13:54:45 From Rose Naseef to Everyone: Where space is limited, it may come down to converting existing roads to ped/bike paths. Is this realistic? 13:55:42 From Kim Stone to Everyone: @Tracey - there are a lot of grant opportunities that your local government can access for these projects. You may also want to consider priorities - what percent of funding is used for roads vs. sidewalks/bike infrastructure? Looked at that way, it might be clear that there should be higher priority on bike projects. 13:55:47 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: Inspired by Skokie, Wilmette designed bike racks branded for our community. We purchased many with Rotary Club funds and the Village installed them all over town. It sends the message that “Wilmette Bikes!” 13:56:14 From BERNADETTE KNIGHT to Everyone: There was advocacy for a project in Northbrook/Glenview (2019/2020) called the Techny River Project trail to run a walking/hiking trail south from Techny Rd (Northbrook) towards Willow Rd (west of Willow Hill). Wondering if anyone on the call knows the status of that proposal? 14:00:09 From Audrey Wennink, MPC to Everyone: Link to event series: https://www.metroplanning.org/news/10330/Taking-Climate-Action-by-Prioritizing-Walking-Biking-and-Transit 14:02:11 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: The Bike Safety quiz is really good! 14:02:11 From Audrey Wennink, MPC to Everyone: Active Trans education resources: https://activetrans.org/resources/education 14:03:13 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: Q & A starts soon. Please put your questions in the chat 14:03:48 From Shital Pandit to Everyone: The Intelligentsia Cup is thrilled to announce the addition of a new venue for the 2022 race series. The Village of Northbrook is set to join the series and the “Northbrook Grand Prix” will be held on Thursday, July 28, 2022. 14:04:23 From Shital Pandit to Everyone: Northbrook is hoping to inspire residents by hosting a portion of this race 14:04:50 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: Tell us about some ways you have effectively advocating for bike and walk issues in your community. 14:05:59 From Edith Makra to Everyone: Im also really interested to hear how GoGreen groups are changing culture and building community through events and communication. GG groups excel at community building! 14:07:33 From Charlie Saxe to Everyone: Very often road resurfacing projects can be done to include enhancements to biking and walking. 14:08:04 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: How do we address the perception that nothing is more important to commerce than parking spots? 14:08:21 From Kim Stone to Everyone: https://citygreen.com/the-rising-popularity-of-the-woonerf-design-a-living-street-concept-for-shared-city-spaces/ 14:09:15 From Maggie Czerwinski to Everyone: Suburban advocacy program resources: https://activetrans.org/our-work/bicycling/bike-walk-every-town 14:09:32 From Maggie Czerwinski to Everyone: State transportation policy survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/IL2022stateplatform 14:10:10 From Maggie Czerwinski to Everyone: Examples of Complete Streets Policies and Active Transportation Plans: http://atpolicy.org/ 14:11:20 From Maggie Czerwinski to Everyone: Thanks for having us! 14:12:51 From Kim Stone to Everyone: Bike the Drive on Green Bay Rd - great idea Jenny! 14:13:28 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: LOVE the Bike Sheridan Road idea! 14:13:34 From Jennifer Lucas to Everyone: Go Green Barrington will be at our local farmers’ market! We will give up our time to speak to support the Farmers’ Market Toolkit! 14:15:36 From Jennifer Lucas to Everyone: http://gogreenhp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Farmers-Market-Final.pdf 14:16:01 From Jacquelyn Casazza - GG Glen Ellyn to Everyone: An open house is a great idea!! 14:16:49 From Kim Stone to Everyone: We took the open house idea from Go Green Northbrook. Plastic reduction toolkit will be at gogreenhp.org. 14:17:31 From Seema Keshav to Everyone: http://gogreenhp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Farmers-Market-Final.pdf 14:20:02 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: Or coffee and composting! 14:20:17 From Jennifer Futterman Go Green Highland Park to Everyone: Liz K, I think it was Yuh 14:21:04 From Jacquelyn Casazza - GG Glen Ellyn to Everyone: Liz such a great idea to invite village trustees! 14:21:07 From Rose Naseef to Everyone: That sounds great! 14:23:54 From Liz Kunkle to Everyone: Zoom link to register for next Go Green Reads discussion, this Monday, May 16 at 7pm, when we will be in discussion with Trevor Cohen, co-author of Bright Green Future. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUofuCtrDosGNHvIcBkpYK6lfvR5yuYY-32 14:25:13 From Jacquelyn Casazza - GG Glen Ellyn to Everyone: the Chicago Tribune had a great article about dark skies and May bird migration this morning. there is a website called birdcast.info which shows migration in your community. over 5M birds migrated through DuPage county last night!!! 14:30:30 From Benjamin Krumstok to Everyone: Sorry, I have to leave now...Thanks all! 14:32:20 From Iris Overstreet Strupp - GG Brookfield to Everyone: I would love links to the leaf blower legislation resources please 14:34:28 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: Iris - let’s talk about leaf blower stuff. Lots going on. 14:34:39 From Iris Overstreet Strupp - GG Brookfield to Everyone: Cool thanks! 14:36:39 From Jacquelyn Casazza - GG Glen Ellyn to Everyone: for solar event with SCARCE + Citizens Utility Board - gogreenglenellyn@gmail.com 14:36:45 From BERNADETTE KNIGHT to Everyone: Yes very interested in a tour of Scarce - GO Green Northbrook 14:37:57 From Iris Overstreet Strupp - GG Brookfield to Everyone: When I graduated from Erikson Institute we rented the gowns 14:41:46 From Seema Keshav to Everyone: https://www.gorealgograss.com/?msclkid=2e338c60d09911ecb782e85dd1e42d7f 14:43:07 From Tessa Murray to Everyone: So grateful for GoGreen Northbrook's advocacy! 14:44:39 From BERNADETTE KNIGHT to Everyone: Join Go Green Northbrook and the Northbrook Garden Club Fri and Saturday 13th /14th May for native plants, tips on composting and Master Gardeners from Conservation @ Home 14:44:59 From Seema Keshav to Everyone: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/05/04/us-plastics-recycling-rate-drop/?msclkid=9907dc4bd09911eca0ab1e46d30acfb3 14:45:04 From Sheri Latash to Everyone: SWANCC is doing cart-tagging in an effort to reduce the contamination rate. Glenview's contamination rate is 32% 14:46:57 From BERNADETTE KNIGHT to Everyone: Northbrook Garden Club plant sale 9am to 2pm Fri and Saturday 13th /14th May for native plants, composting and much more - Northbrook Village Green Community Center, opposite St Norbert's church 1810 Walters Avenue Northbrook _ ALL WELCOME 14:47:22 From BERNADETTE KNIGHT to Everyone: includes plants from member gardens 14:48:19 From Beth Drucker to Everyone: May 18 Food Choices - Farm and Community webinar June 8 Green Burials webinar GoGreen Wilmette October webinar - Green Feminine Hygiene Choices! 14:49:17 From Laurie Breitkopf to Everyone: Riverwoods Plant Sale - May 14 (Saturday), 12-3. Please come! 14:54:07 From Jennifer Futterman Go Green Highland Park to Everyone: Great webinar about starting zero waste lunches at your school this afternoon from 4-5. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/going-for-zero-waste-at-school-tickets-321406414237?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch 14:55:45 From Rose Naseef to Everyone: Great resources. Thanks so much! 14:56:49 From Jacquelyn Casazza - GG Glen Ellyn to Everyone: thanks!!!