LEADERS AGAINST LITTER

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Sarah Bertrand from the LSU Ag Center was one of many Leader Against Litter taking part in the "Green-Up" on the Lafitte Greenway.
Sarah Bertrand from the LSU Ag Center was one of many Leaders Against Litter taking part in the “Green-Up” on the Lafitte Greenway.

Keep New Orleans Beautiful along with City and community leaders took a pledge against litter today on the Lafitte Greenway. Volunteers did a “Green-Up” by picking up trash along the Lafitte Greenway in preparation for the Cleanest City Challenge (Judging is on March 23rd!).

Leaders Against Litter invite you to take part in the Cleanest City Challenge!
Leaders Against Litter invite you to take part in the Cleanest City Challenge!

Leaders Against Litter is an annual statewide Keep Louisiana Beautiful event that invites community leaders and elected officials to “lead the way” against litter. This initiative unites leaders throughout the state to raise awareness and to make a litter-free Louisiana a priority together to take pride in and cleanup their communities, and to inspire others to volunteer.

Keep New Orleans Beautiful along with City and community leaders took a pledge against litter today on the Lafitte Greenway.
Keep New Orleans Beautiful along with City and community leaders took a pledge against litter today on the Lafitte Greenway.

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Magnanimous Metro Men

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metroI had a large city trash can overflowing with leaves pulled from the storm drains on Esplanade from last night’s wind and rain event. Just as I was about to haul it home, two men in a Metro Sanitation truck stopped, grabbed the can and emptied it. I am extremely grateful to these men for going over and above the call of duty.

Their community spirit and dedication is an example for all of us.

Dr. Robert Datzman Helped Maintain the City’s Beauty

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Dr. Datzman photo by Charlie London
Dr. Datzman
photo by Charlie London

Dr. Robert Datzman served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a Flight Surgeon. He earned his Medical Degree in Radiology from Indiana University and Medical School. He co-founded Ft. Wayne Radiology and started the first hospice team at Parkview Hospital in Ft. Wayne, IN.

His love affair with New Orleans prompted him to move here in 1979. He was a Radiologist with BBNH Radiology Group at Jo Ellen Smith Hospital for over 10 years. After his retirement, he pursued his interests in Archaeology, Genealogy, and the Civil War. He so loved the local cuisine that he visited and rated over 700 restaurants in the New Orleans area.

To help maintain the city’s beauty, he dedicated himself to a daily routine of picking up litter in the City Park/Esplanade area. This dedication made him a local celebrity. He was a member of New Orleans Radiology, the Civil War Round Table, and the World War II Museum. Published in The Times-Picayune on 5/11/2008.

Dr. Robert Datzman picked up trash all throughout City Park and Faubourg St. John.  Robert Thompson gave him free coffee for life when Robert owned Fair Grinds.   Robert sent in the photo below and added the following comment, “The photo  I sent you shows his “logs” on the table, records of everything he picked up over those years!  He claimed to have found one of every kind of paper currency except the largest one. All went into the poor box at Holy Rosary. A real special guy in my estimation.”

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NO WASTE NOLA

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Welcome to No Waste NOLA!

nowastenolaNO WASTE NOLA has a lot going on this month, so check out the info below and be sure to connect with us!
No Waste NOLA is dedicated to educating the residents of New Orleans regarding the harm caused by plastic pollution and enacting change through local popular support. We need to encourage our elected officials to implement waste-reduction policies, so we can continue to thrive as a recovering city.

Summer Social

Join us at Bayou Beer Garden on September 17 at 6:00 PM for No Waste NOLA’s first ever social! Meet the activists, learn about our cause, and just hang out. We’ll provide information on how to get involved.

Become a member, and snag a No Waste NOLA tote bag and other goodies.   See you there!

 

No Waste NOLA’s Letter to the Editor

Did you see our letter to the editor of the New Orleans Advocate in May? The letter sparked discussion and exposure within our community about the harms caused by single use plastic bags and other pollution.

Have we been in your neighborhood?

No Waste NOLA members have been visiting Neighborhood Associations to garner residents’ support for a single-use plastic bag ban. We’ve been to Fauburg Marigny, Faubourg St. John, Parkview, Mid City Neighborhood Organization, and the Carrolton Riverbend Neighborhood Organization.

Don’t see your neighborhood on the list?

Let us know when your next meeting is, and we’ll send a representative

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

SEPT 17   6PM Summer Social, Bayou Beer Garden
SEPT 26   6PM Get out the Vote, Howlin’ Wolf
OCT 1   6PM Volunteer Orientation

Plastic Bag Ban Petition
The No Waste NOLA petition to eliminate single use plastic bags in the city of New Orleans almost has the 1,000 signatures we need. Help us create a more sustainable New Orleans by signing and sharing the petition today!

 

Volunteers Help Keep New Orleans Beautiful

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Thank you to the great volunteers from near and far
who came out to help keep New Orleans beautiful.


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Get ready for the Great American Clean-Up Day,
co-hosted by the good people of the Friends of Lafitte Corridor and
NOLA Trash Mob.
On Sunday 8 March, community service organizations will come together across from the U.S. Post Office on Bayou St. John (501 N Jefferson Davis Pkwy) at 9:30am for coffee and pastries compliments of Mid-City Market!

This will be a major Trash Mob event. It’s an offer you can’t refuse.

cleanup2-2015mar8The event will start with background information and tips on how to be safe when picking up litter. Around 10am, participants will split up into small teams and focus on areas adjacent to the Lafitte Greenway. The clean-up should last for about two hours. When the mission is complete, the group will gather together to take some pictures in front of the trash collected.

In addition to FOLC and NOLA Trash Mob, the University of Georgia’s IMPACT program will join the mob at 9:30 a.m. on March 8th where Bayou St. John meets Jefferson Davis Parkway. This should be a fun trash mob that makes a big difference.

Some supplies, including bags for trash and recycling and gloves will be provided. A limited number of grabbers and orange vests will be available for those who want them. Please feel free to bring your own supplies. Bringing your own supp that would be most awesome and sincerely appreciated.

Please join the fun at 9:30 on Sunday, March 8th where Jefferson Davis Parkway meets Bayou St. John!

uga-logoThe University of Georgia’s Urban Environmental Awareness group will travel to New Orleans, Louisiana to explore the relationship between busy, bustling cities and mother nature. During the week of service the uga-impactgroup will be going to places like Green Light New Orleans, The Green Project and will join in the Great American Clean-up at 9:30 a.m. on March 8th at Jefferson Davis Parkway and Bayou St. John in New Orleans, LA. From these local environmental service and advocacy organizations the students will learn what they can do to make cities more sustainable. In addition to community service, the group will get the chance to explore the rich culture of New Orleans.

Join the Mob Sunday at 10 a.m.

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Get your head out of bed and join the mob at 10 a.m.
Get your head out of bed and join the mob at 10 a.m.

And, you’ll still be home in plenty of time for the Saints game!

This Sunday, 5 October, we will meet at

10 am

at the intersection of

Conti and Jeff Davis

to mob from there down Conti toward Carrollton. This area is always littered, but we can’t promise that we’ll find a mattress like usual! Come help us clean up this neglected corner of Mid-City.

We will bring some supplies, including gloves and bags and grabbers, but do feel free to bring your own stuff, too. That is always appreciated. We will mob for an hour, pile everything up, and take some photographic proof of our efforts.

NOLA Trash Mob is on a continuing mission to change the way New Orleans thinks about litter. We hope that by setting a good, visible example we can get others to reconsider throwing garbage on the streets and sidewalks and make our city just a bit more beautiful, if only for a day and in our small way.

If you have any ideas about spots that need mobbed, please reach out and email us, ya hear? Our address is [email protected].

TRASH MOB CALENDAR

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trashmobAfter some calendar scribbling, Chandler and I have put together a tentative schedule of trash mobs for the rest of 2013. Please do let us know if there are any scheduling requests or feedback that might help us gather more support at the mobs. These are by no means set in stone, so they can be moved around for the most part (all except for the 10/26/13 mob at Coliseum Park). Also, we can put together evening mobs as well if that works better for people.

Here is the rundown for the upcoming mobs, which are posted on our Facebook page’s calendar. Note the hyper-linked mobs have official FACEBOOK events set up already.

9/27/2013 N. Rampart and St. Ann

9/29/2013 St. Charles and Louisiana

10/6/2013 Gert Town
10/13/2013 Carrollton and Canal Mob
10/20/2013 Lighthouse Mob
10/26/2013 Coliseum Park, ISL
11/3/2013 APEX Central City Mob
11/10/2013 New Orleans East Trash Mob, Crowder and I-10, Dwyer
11/17/2013 Trash Mob at the Fly
11/24/2013 Irish Channel Mob
12/1/2013 Claiborne and MLK
12/8/2013 Lower 9th Ward Trash Mob
12/15/2013Dorgenois and Washington
12/22/2013Freret
12/29/2013Musician’s Houses
1/5/2014Second Line Mob

 

We would greatly appreciate it if you could share the events with your followers and networks!

Participants are encouraged to bring their own gloves and garbage bags, but we will try to bring a limited supply of extras. The trash mobs will last for about 1 hour each, but people can participate however long they would like.

Finally, our vision for the trash mob is to get the entire city doing their part all the time to keep the city clean. And as great as it is to have a group volunteers working at this once a week, it would be even greater to have many groups of volunteers working at this multiple times of the week all over the city.
So PLEASE, if anyone thinks they can take on leading their own trash mobs and needs help getting volunteers, we will be more than happy to teach you what we’ve learned and spread the word for you to our followers. Neighborhood organizations could start at one mob a month and work their way toward cleaning up more frequently. Remember, one hour is a very small portion of the week, and the more people you have, the more you can take on. And once you have you have residents who actually live in the area they’re cleaning you reach a much greater level of accountability and responsibility in ensuring New Orleans stays beautiful.

Thank you for your time and please look through the schedule as well as our Facebook events, spread the word, and come join NOLA Trash Mob!

Best,
Daniel Paschall and Chandler Moore
NOLA Trash Mob

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NolaTrashMob
Website: http://nolatrashmob.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/NOLATrashmob

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The Mob is Looking for You

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NOLA TRASH MOB | 11 a.m. | Sunday, June 9

The monument by the Jeff Davis Trail where it crosses Tulane Avenue was surveyed and it was peppered with trash. This area has become the main battleground, and this Sunday, June 9 we’ll take it back. We can then mobilize toward where litter is dense, perhaps even over I-10 across the Jeff Davis Bridge if we’re so moved.

Meet at 11AM by Jefferson Davis Parkway and Tulane Avenue ready to take back one of our nicest green spaces!
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Participants are encouraged to bring their own gloves and garbage bags, but we will try to bring a limited supply of extras. The trash mob will last for about 1.5 to 2 hours, but people can participate however long they would like.

For those that are new to NOLA Trash Mob, we are a group of volunteers who want to change the way New Orleans thinks about litter, primarily through clean-ups or “trash mobs”. For these trash mobs, we select a public space, usually a particular city block or area that has a significant amount of litter, and we set a time and day to go and pick up trash there. They usually are scheduled about once a week on Sunday mornings.

We welcome feedback from the community of where areas there is a lot of litter to target for future trash mobs. Additionally, if anyone knows of any organizations that would like to publicize and/or sponsor a trash mob event, we are always in need of publicity, incentives for participants, and trash grabbers to save the mob’s back.

So tell your friends and come on out this Sunday to join NOLA Trash Mob!

Check it out on Facebook…
https://www.facebook.com/NolaTrashMob#!/events/130778570459960/