These are a few of the comments written on the evaluations yesterday (Saturday) after our Green Scene event, Greening your Outdoor Space. This first ILG Green Scene was sponsored by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. (KIBI) which hosted the morning program. Six topics were offered in short presentations from 9- noon. They included: Natural Lawn by Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp, editor of Indiana Living Green; Jerome Delbridge, KIBI,  Trees and NeighborWoods as well as  Rain Barrels; Ron Lauster,  Marion Co. Soil and Water Conservation District,  Rain Gardens; Ben Mannies, JF New, Native Plants and Natural Habitast, and yours truly, touting my favorite topic, Chemical-Free gardening as well as Composting. (Contact info is below).

Information and resources from a dozen organizations and companies were also present, talking with attendees and sharing info, including:

Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc.  
Marion Co. Soil and Water Conservation District
JF New
Native Plants Unlimited
TuwA 
Worms Way
Green Piece Indy
Cit E Scapes
Green Way Supply   
GreenCycle
INPAWS  
Hamilton Co. SWCD
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It's that time of the year again!

Earth Hour 2009 is coming up. Even though I really think we should do it once a month at least.

Last year, my family and I turned out all the lights and electronics in the house. Kids took adventure of the last 30 minutes of sunlight to play soccer in the backyard with their dad, while I went around tidy up my garden a little bit to get ready for spring. After it got dark, we each held a candle in a used yogurt container (it was windy), and took a walk around the block. Then we came back home, sat around the candle light and told ghost stories until it's time for the kids to go to bed.