Category Archives: features

We’re Going to the Fair! The DC State Fair, this Sunday the 11th.

Green Neighbors DC will be having a booth at the DC State Fair, on the Saint Elizabeth campus in Anacostia this Sunday! 10 am to 5 pm. There will be 8000 – 10000 attendees!! Yowzer. Where: Gateway DC at Saint Elizabeth’s East (Google map to entrance), and our spot is D1, as shown here: MAP When: […]
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We’ve launched the DPR Garden Tool Share site online – and in person!

Green Neighbors DC is supporting DPR’s previously little known Garden Tool Share Program , located at 14th and Taylor NW, to make it far more known and more broadly useful. They actually have a ton of garden tools: rakes, weed-whackers, hedge trimmers, shovels, bee equipment, and composters. They also have solar ovens, a shop vac, paper shredders, […]
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Green Neighbors DC members are kicking the plastic straw habit. Here’s how.

Thanks to Lisa, a Green Neighbors member, we have decided to kick the plastic straw habit via the #refusethestraw campaign, and Lisa has made up a mini-flyer that you can hand out (or carry with you and just show) waiters, friends, etc as to why one should “refuse the straw.” document: no straw green neighbors […]
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GN is now on Twitter (and FB)

Green Neighbors is expanding more into social media.  We’ve been on Facebook  (https://www.facebook.com/greenneighborsofdc/) a while, but are much more FB-active now – posting events as we hear of them there (at least within a day or two), besides lining them up on our DC events page on our website. But we also just joined Twitter!  […]
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Sustainable Redevelopment of Walter Reed

Green Neighbors recently submitted testimony to the Community Advisory Committee of the Walter Reed Development, which held its 8th meeting on February 25th, 2015. The members of this Community Advisory Committee are charged with providing input on a range of topics relating to the implementation of the project, such as construction concerns, traffic, connecting residents with employment and business […]
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