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Kid’s Pollinator Pathway Project – This Sunday @ 11:00

Warner Park and Gardens

Sunday May 5, 11:00 AM

Kid’s Pollinator Pathway Project

Bring your littles to Warner Park on Sunday, May 5 at 11:00 to participate in planting a native plant garden.

In addition to helping initiate the native plant garden, neighborhood kids can ask questions about pollinator ecology and learn about the amazing wildlife in our beautiful city.

We’ll have hand shovels and gloves, but bring your own if you have them. Questions? Please reach out to info@gracelandwest.org.

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GWCA celebrated the 54th Earth Day with native shrub plantings at three locations

Last weekend, TreeKeeper Ben Conley led neighborhood shrub planting efforts and provided key points from the U.S. Forest Service, including not to put mulch against shrub or tree trunks and instead use the “donut hole” mulching technique that is recommended for healthy shrubs and trees. 

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Receive a native shrub | Participate in our 2024 Earth Day Celebration

Interested in receiving a native shrub / tree during our 2024 Earth Day Celebration planting. We’d like to select 2-3 members to each receive a small native shrub.

Let us know ASAP if you are interested. Planting will be on Saturday, April 20 beginning at 10 am and everyone will learn about soil prep, planting and care. Contact info@gracelandwest.org if interested.

Schuette’s Oak – an example of the type of 1 qt shrubs/trees we’ll be planting. Credit: Possibility Place.
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Calling all Graceland West Butterflies

Graceland West Butterfly Habitat Gardens Do you have a garden, yard or parkway that provides butterfly habitat?  Please let us know at info@gracelandwest.org.  We invite you to share a photo too @graceland_west_gwca on Instagram, @gracelandwest on Facebook. 

The Graceland West Community Association, GWCA

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GWCA’s 38th Annual Garden Walk – Registration

Our GWCA 38th Annual Garden Walk will be Sunday, August 2nd from 4-7:30 pm.  The registration deadline to be on the map is July 23rd.  This year we will only show front yards to limit social gathering.  Our theme is “MASKquerade” as visitors and gardeners need to wear masks AND social distance if near others.

Roses blooming in Warner Park and Gardens
June 6, 2020
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For the Garden Walk, we’re adding photos and garden descriptions to a virtual map. Please submit your photos or videos using this form https://forms.gle/mcavNzCYFSBmoXNY6. They can even be of you demonstrating a gardening technique. If you don’t have a google account you can also send photos or videos via email to Donna Forsberg (donnaforsberg@sbcglobal.net) and Colin McLeod (cmm504@gmail.com).

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GWCA ECO-Green Committee | Earth Day 50

April 22nd, 2020  is the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day.  The GWCA ECO-Green committee has been working hard on greening the community for almost as long.  You can read about past projects here: https://gracelandwest.org/eco-gardens-green-space/.  As mentioned in the blog earlier this month, GWCA is looking for you to share your personal projects and teach others “how to” on Facebook and on Instagram (@graceland_west_gwca).

We may already be one of the greenest neighborhoods in Chicago, with our tree-landed streets, the tree count and park at the LVHS campus, Warner Park and Gardens, corner parkway plantings, pollinator pathways, the Berteau greenway and our Annual Garden Walk (this year will be the 38th edition).  But there is no denying that there is a lot to do to restore a safe and stable climate.

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This year’s Earth Day theme is climate action.  No matter how small your contribution, we are asking everyone in the community to take action for our planet on Earth Day and every day.  If you are feeling discouraged, be sure to follow the Graceland West Community Association on Facebook.  We’ll be posting simple, hyper-local ideas and resources using the #GWCAGreens tag.

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GWCA ECO-Green Committee | Share your gardening and green projects on Facebook

 

Are you and your household or family working on gardening or sustainable/green projects while you spend more time at home?  If so, share your process and results to help neighbors on our GWCA Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/gracelandwest/) 

Spring celebrations abound! 

Rituals like Passover and Easter are bringing us together while we remain physically apart.  The GWCA ECO-Green Committee is hoping that our non-religious Spring rituals can also help to bring us together as a community.

This spring, we will be using our Facebook page to showcase some of the amazing things that occur in Gracleland West.  We will be using three separate hash tags, but also welcome you to post and include your own tags (anyone have an idea for birds and wildlife related posts?).
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We will get the ball rolling with stories about previous projects and local ideas and look forward to hearing about your success stories.

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47th Ward Green Council | Organizing for Plastics Alternatives

The 47th Ward Green Council welcomed a group of ward residents who formed the group OPA: Organizing for Plastics Alternatives to their meeting on March 10th at Sulzer library. The problems associated with plastics are serious and are accelerating.

During the meeting, there was a screening of the abridged version of “A Plastic Ocean” (https://aplasticocean.movie/) which chronicles the devastating impact our throw-away, single-use plastic culture is having on the circulatory system of our planet.

The first of two researchers from Loyola University Chicago, a graduate student in Timothy Hoellein’s lab presented her research about the origin of trash that ends up in the North Branch of the Chicago River. The other, Dr. Sasha Adkins, discussed the occupational health dangers of the plastics industry and the greenwashing from things like recycled plastic roads but really extremely harmful because of their contribution to microplastic pollution.

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  • Industry leaders responsible for the production of single-use plastics are not being held accountable

What do we need to do as a community in the great city of Chicago:

  • Reduce your consumption of single use plastics
    • At the meeting, a member of the OPA brought a list of products that are plastic free and can replace all plastic toiletries and detergents
  • Help eliminate waste from our waterways by picking up litter in our communities and volunteering for an event hosted by Friends of the Chicago River, Alliance for the Great Lakes, and others.
  • Write to legislators at every level.

The meeting was very encouraging, but I came out of it thinking that we are focusing too much on relying on legislation to get out of this mess. Although this may seem like the best way to hold the producers of single-use plastics accountable for their resulting health and environmental impact, we should not ignore the impact that public pressure can have on the producers of single-use plastics and the corporations at every step of the supply chain. How about writing letters to the leadership of Whole Foods next meeting? Plastic wrapped individual cucumbers and eggplant…really?

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