Area schools and troups are looking for projects for Carrollton related to Earth day. If you would like to assist us with getting our youth involved in the environment, please contact Cathy at cathy@kcbadmin.org
Keep Carrollton Beautiful is currently looking for beautification projects for Great American Clean Up month.
Look around Carrollton or your neighborhood and make suggestions for projects that you think would make Carrollton a more beautiful place to live and visit. No project too small – just make a suggestion!
We will also be looking for volunteer groups to help with these projects. Please send all suggestions to cathy@kcbadmin.org
Your local community garden is about to sprout! The Giving Garden of Carrollton is located near the intersection of Hebron Parkway and Old Denton Road, just south of the Krogers and behind the Aldersgate UMC.
The goals and objectives of the community garden are to provide a sustainable community garden opportunity for the citizens of Carrollton and to provide donations of produce tor local charitable organizations. In support of these goals gardeners will donate fifty (50) percent of their produce to local charitable organizations. The Giving Garden gardners will find a welcoming environment with infrastructure provided to support their gardening goals. Individual beds, 4′ x 20′ feet, are available for a $25 annual fee. Half beds are also available. Tax deductible cash contributions may be made through Keep Carrollton Beautiful.
We are in the beginning stages and need your help. If you have any of the items below you would like to donate or are a small business who would like to partner locally and can provide a professional service please contact us Willie Lane at garden@kcbadmin.org.
Needs List
**Wood, soil and compost estimates are for 20 beds.**
* Cedar boards 2in x 8in x 20ft – 1500 linear feet
* 160 steel angle irons with screws to secure cedar boards
* 20 cu yds (500 cu ft) of compost (organic)
* 20 cu yds (500 cu ft) of topsoil
* 40 cu yds (1000 cu ft) cu ft mulch
* Weed fabric (1200 sq ft)
* 10 garden hoses – minimum 25 feet each
* Wheel barrows (3)
* Watering cans
* Picnic table
* Storage shed – 10 ft x 8 ft or larger
* Hand tools (shovels, hoes, spading forks, rakes, trowels, hammer)
* Rain barrels
* PVC pipe Schedule 40 ¾ inch 200 ft
TEXAS RECYCLES DAY is an annual event sponsored by Keep Carrollton Beautiful. In the past, this effort has allowed us to divert thousands of pounds of waste away from our Landfill.
WHEN: Saturday, November 14th, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
WHERE: Newman Smith High School parking lot
This year, our wonderful sponsors include:
Carrollton Evening Lions Club, collecting used eye glasses, hearing aids and durable medical equipment
Dallas Computer Parts, collecting used computers, hard drives, cables, software, electronics, phones, cell phones, stereos, printers and monitors (NOTE A $5 CHARGE APPLIES TO ALL MONITORS)
Firestone, collecting used car tires and car batteries
AAA Recycling, collecting scrap metal, and appliances (without Freon)
The Knit Group, collecting yarn
PTA Clothes Closet, Gently used wearable clothing for children and adults
Re-Candling, new and used or partially used candles
The Giving Community Garden in Carrollton, garden tools of all types
PTA Book Collection, Books, CDs, DVDs, VHS & Albums
Mosaic Paper Shredding, Non-confidential bins onsite, or confidential shredding available with coupon offsite (Nov 16-20)
Email contacts: Amy@kcbadmin.org or Diane@kcbadmin.org
VOLUNTEERS: Email Amy and Diane and let us know your organization and the number of volunteers coming. Bring any community service form you need signed. We will have our waiver posted and a sign in sheet. Lunch will be served. Volunteers should arrive around 8:00am to 8:30am.
This presentation was created and delivered by Willie Lane.
For more information about the community garden, contact Cindy@kcbadmin.org or Amy at Amy@kcbadmin.org
Or, you can contact the entire garden committee (Cindy, Amy, Woody, Willie, Terrie, & Kirsten) at garden@kcbadmin.org
For more information, contact Cindy@kcbadmin.org or Amy at Amy@kcbadmin.org
Or, you can contact the entire garden committee (Cindy, Amy, Woody, Willie, Terrie, & Kirsten) at garden@kcbadmin.org
You will receive Keep Carrollton Beautiful announcements approximately once per month:
Keep Carrollton Beautiful’s FaceBook page is now live. Please help us reach other Carrollton residents by tagging your FaceBook friends inside the galleries, and please invite others who are interested in Carrollton to become fans of our page here on FaceBook.
Note to our Volunteer Board members: To edit this calendar,
People like us want to leave our children and children’s children a clean, livable planet. We will have to educated them to have “a range of critical-thinking skills to deal with an unprecedented future,” said Susanne Moser, Ignition, and “the ability to cooperate with others under stress to deal with the challenges.”
Medical and public health professional are “taking responsible, ethical action to protect human life,” said Bob Musil, Ignition and we need to help them. We all want healthy homes and communities and right now our laws do not adequately protect us, much less our children.
Climate change not only effects the environment around us but the environment within us – toxin levels, deformities, disabilities and the spread of disease. In 1962, during open-air nuclear testing, John F. Kennedy said, “We all love our children. We all breathe the same air. We are all mortal.” And we all need to do what we can to stop climate change.
Bob Musil, Ignition says climate change “will create serious negative effects from … flooding, wetland destruction and spread of waterborne … diseases.” Not to mention the effects of increased heat.
There is a close relationship between dirty air (high particulate levels from vehicles and power plants) and natural disasters, asthma and heat related deaths. There is also a close relationship between dirty water (pollution from pesticide runoff) and mercury poison, fish advisories and “boil” orders.
Most of us have a part of the natural world we hold dear – woods or mountains or lakes or rivers or even urban garden plots. What happens when those places of spiritual solace disappear? Who is responsible? Aren’t we Earth’s stewards?
Find a place in our community to revitalize – plant trees and involve diverse groups. Eat locally grown food and walk or bicycle to get it. Write your local, state, and federal officials to pressure them for clean energy and strong emissions policies. Speak up for your family’s health. VOTE – vote for those who have individuals’ best interest at heart and not big business’. Stand up for your right to clean air, clean water and a sustainable planet. Change your light bulbs to compact fluorescents and your appliances to Energy Star and turn them off when not in use. Caulk your windows and weather-strip your doors. Fix leaky faucets and don’t waste water. Combine driving trips and don’t idle. You are part of the solution!
Funding for grassroots organization can dramatically shift national energy policy by banding us together for a louder voice. It is ALL our individual responsibilities’ to help make giant strides against climate change for the generations to come. We can solve it! Start now.
