The Park District and the village will co-host the third annual Recycling Extravaganza on Saturday, September 11, 2010 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Belmont Road Train Station in Parking Lot H. This is the same location as the previous two years, and is scheduled prior to the village’s annual Amnesty Day. The list of accepted items [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Environmental Concerns'
3rd annual Recycling Extravaganza
July 18th, 2010 · Comments Off · Community Events, Environmental Concerns
Tags: recycling
Trash talk Tuesday
July 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Core Services, Environmental Concerns
Tuesday July 13 staff will report to council on the main variants of the village’s next garbage contract, which begins in April of 2011. There are four options:
Tags: garbage contract·planning·trash
Star light, star bright…
April 9th, 2010 · Comments Off · Energy, Environmental Concerns
BlueStar Energy made a presentation to the ECC the same night as Trash Talk, looking for a recommendation from the commission to council that Downers Grove participate in the Green Power Community Program and become a Green Power Community. Alexis Cain from the US EPA was on hand to give a brief overview of the [...]
Tags: green power·renewable energy
Trash talk
April 9th, 2010 · 28 Comments · Environmental Concerns
Two representatives of ARC Disposal Company attended the Environmental Concerns Commission Thursday night as the ECC wrapped up three months of discussions on carts, stickers, carts and stickers, and Amnesty Day. They will send their recommendations to council well in advance of contract renewal talks. The existing contract expires in late April, 2011.
Tags: garbage collection
Mating season
March 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Environmental Concerns, Fire and police, People, Places and Things, Village Council, Village Hall
The Village has put up a primer on coyote behavior that will be of interest to local pet-owners and walkers looking to avoid a confrontation with the wild critters, which in recent years have proliferated in the Western suburbs. The information was posted last week on the recommendation of the Environmental Concerns Commission, which reviewed [...]
Tags: coyotes
Recycling event: More is more
October 5th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Environmental Concerns
The Downers Grove Park District and the Village of DG held their second annual Recycling Extravangza for six hours on Saturday September 26th at the Belmont train station parking lot, and today Village Management Intern Jamie Belongia (who organized this year’s event on the village side) sent out her report to volunteers, reporting an increase [...]
Tags: HT
Sickening
September 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Environmental Concerns, In the News, Public health
DuPage County Health officials have so far found no link between several Downers Grove and Lisle residents who became sick after eating at area restaurants last weekend. “There is no confirmed source and no causal relationship among the cases,” said David Hass, a health department spokesman. Such outbreaks are extremely common and have many possible [...]
Five furry, fishy reasons to recycle
September 23rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Conservation, Environment, Environmental Concerns, Public health, Village Hall
The village will hold its second annual Recycling Extravaganza from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Belmont train station parking lot. Last year, the event collected more than 73 tons of defunct, broken or outdated electronics, plus cell phones, ink-jet cartridges and other environmentally unfriendly cast-offs. With that much toxic trash now out [...]
What are they?
September 7th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Environmental Concerns, Neighbohoods
What are they, what do they have to do with Downers Grove, and where will they land first? Hint: Tune in to the village council workshop Tuesday night at 7pm.
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The summer of our discontent
September 2nd, 2009 · 9 Comments · community development, Development, Environment, Environmental Concerns
Director of Public Works Naneil Newlon gave a report to council tonight, an update on tree concerns along Prairie Avenue. Three additional trees to those already taken out will also be lost. A fourth, the huge sycamore at the corner of Forest and Prairie on private property, will be severely trimmed back for newly located [...]
Tags: parkway tree protection·trees