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BOIL ORDER: College Avenue and Westwood Road
Monday, April 22, 2024
This boil order has been canceled. On Monday, April 22, a boil order was issued for the area south of College Avenue to Westwood Road. This area includes Goshen Hospital, part of the Historic Racemere Peninsula Neighborhood, and Goshen College west of 9th Street. A map of the affected area can be... more
CITY OF GOSHEN TO PARTICIPATE IN MAY FIRST FRIDAY GREEN DAY CELEBRATION
Monday, April 22, 2024
The City of Goshen Environmental Resilience Department is partnering with Downtown Goshen to host May’s First Friday Green Day Celebration on Friday, May 3. The event, centered on the courthouse lawn, will feature activities and educational tables from city departments, partners, and local businesses. “We’re... more
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Conduct Community Interviews
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
The City of Goshen strives to take the best care for residents and to ensure our drinking water meets all U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) safety requirements. As part of this process, the EPA will conduct community interviews... more
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Downtown Goshen Economic Improvement District
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 7:45am
The regular meetings of the Downtown Goshen Economic Improvement District Board will take place on the first Thursday of each month, excepting July, as set forth in the schedule below. The meetings will be held in the conference room located in Goshen City Hall at 202 South 5th Street, Goshen, Indiana. All meetings of the Goshen Downtown Economic Improvement District Board are open to the public with the exception of an executive session that may be held as authorized by Indiana Code §5-14-1.5-6.1. The Board may schedule meetings in addition to those listed above as necessary, subject to public notice requirements.
Board of Works
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 4:00pm
To join the webinar please copy and paste this link on your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88469251269
Park Board Meeting
Monday, May 6, 2024, 4:00pm
Public may join in person or virtually by following this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89736482570
Webinars - Zero Waste Goshen
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Title: Compost City
Description: Along with backyard chickens, balcony beekeepers, rooftop farmers, and community gardeners, urban composters are part of a bumper crop of pioneers who are redefining the green space of crowded towns and cities. You may think you need a big yard to compost. Think again. Rebecca Louie, the author of Compost City, is a certified NYC Master Composter who was born and raised in Queens, New York. Rebecca will talk about her journey into sustainable living and share practical tips on how you can too.
Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tDFFkTogT8m83vEg0XNyCQ
Goshen Zero Waste Webinar
Title: No-Waste Kitchen Gardening
Description: Stop tossing your carrot stumps, loose cilantro sprigs, lettuce and cabbage stalks, and apple cores in the trash! Get expert advice from Katie Elzer-Peters, author of No-Waste Kitchen Gardening gives you all the instructions and tricks you'll need to grow and re-propagate produce from food waste. You'll be astonished at how much food waste you can re-grow.
Recorded Date: April 14, 2022
Recording: Available here
Title: Finding Satisfaction in a Lower Consuming Lifestyle
Description: What would happen if we all stopped shopping? How could we transform our lives and our economy to reduce mass consumption and waste to protect the planet? What would happen to the way we think, make products, use time, express our individuality? Would life be better, or worse?
The Day the World Stops Shopping is a provocative, deeply researched thought experiment exploring what life beyond consumerism might look like—and how we can get there.
This is a conversation between EcoPAX students at Goshen College, Goshen residents, and J.B. MacKinnon, sponsored by Goshen Zero Waste. J.B. MacKinnon is an author and journalist who researches and writes extensively on environmental topics. He has written multiple books and his work has appeared in The Atlantic, the New Yorker, and The Walrus.
Recorded Date: March 10, 2022
Recording: Available Here
Title: The Economics of Recycling
Description: The Economics of Recycling – Daniel Zelaya and Kyle Woolsey from the WasteAway Group will explain recycling economics and dispel the myth that recycling costs too much. Learn how recycling, a commodity-driven enterprise, impacts the local and national economy. Businesses around the country are competing for your recycled goods. Upwards of 40% of all residential waste is recyclable, with an additional 40% compostable, leaving another 20% to be reused, repurposed, or ultimately landfilled. Learn how your efforts help create jobs, conserve natural resources, and help build a circular economy in the United States. This program was sponsored by Goshen Zero Waste.
Recorded Date: March 10, 2022
Recording: Available Here
Goshen Zero Waste Webinar
Title: Say Goodbye to Plastic
Program Description: If you've heard of the plastic-free lifestyle but think you don't have time for it in your busy life, prepare to be delightfully wrong. Say Goodbye to Plastic: A Survival Guide For Plastic-Free Living shows you how, whether you're seeking to remove plastic from your life or try a few novel eco-hacks in your kitchen, bathroom, office, or dining room. As a plastic pollution activist and entrepreneur, Harris invites us in her book Say Goodbye to Plastic: A Survival Guide for Plastic-Free Living, which is part memoir, part inspirational ode to the ocean and packed with how-to tips to say goodbye to plastic. Opportunities abound in every room of our homes to simplify our lives by re-thinking our wasteful habits -- we need to learn to recognize them. Register for the event and receive access to a free, digital coloring book with tips and tricks for going plastic-free for kids.
Recorded Date: March 3, 2022
Recording: Available Here
Goshen Zero Waste Webinar
Growing Food at Home, But Not Alone: a model for reducing waste, sharing resources and knowledge, and building community
Description: Want to grow food for your household but feel overwhelmed by needing to buy all the supplies and acquire all the knowledge by yourself? Come hear Zuleyja Prieto of Goshen share about a community project called Rooted Through Corn, Planting Families, which supports backyard gardeners in raising, honoring, and sharing heritage corn seed as well as tools, supplies, and knowledge. Learn how a community of growers is reducing wasted time, energy, materials, and knowledge by sharing, and how building relationships with other gardeners can be key to success, sustenance, and sustainability. In addition to talking backyard corn, Jon Zirkle of Bushelcraft Farm will cover aspects of growing a variety of foods by starting small--at the backyard and patio scale. Attendees will have plenty of time for questions and sharing ideas as well as opportunities to acquire seeds for growing in 2022!
Presenters: Jon Zirkle and Zuleyja Prieto, members of the Rooting Through Corn, Planting Families project, a regional collaboration supported through a USDA-SARE Farmer Rancher grant.
Recorded Date: February 24.
How the Consumerism Economy Affects Your Solid Waste
As we consume more and more, it becomes obvious that the planet needs us to consume less. The United States narrative is that the economy needs us to consume more and more. Is there any way out of this dilemma? Journalist and author J.B. MacKinnon explores this question in his new book—and says we have more to gain than to lose in making a shift to a "deconsumer culture." Join this conversation event to learn more.
Goshen Area Recycling
Topic: Zero Waste Goshen: Local Recycling Facts by Recycling Works Waste Collection 
Description: 48% of household trash is recyclable. The recycling industry in Northern Indiana is a robust business where the material you recycle is reused in the Midwest and becomes a local driver for economic success. Get facts on what you can and cannot recycle along with where your recycling goes. Learn about the amazing world of recycling with Recycling Works.
The Zero Waste Goshen webinar series is a partnership between the City of Goshen's Department of Environmental Resilience and the Goshen Public Library.
The average Goshen household is expected to throw 2,500 pounds of trash into the landfill in 2021. That is 50% more than the national average per household. The cost of hauling and disposing of household trash is expected to top $1,500,000 in 2021.
Come join us in the journey to reduce our household waste. Follow the workshops and reduce your trash by 50% or even more!
Recorded Date: Oct 28, 2021
Recording: Available here