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Mayor Leichty honored to host Governor Holcomb and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation

Thursday, September 21, 2023

The City of Goshen and the Goshen Chamber of Commerce yesterday hosted Governor Eric Holcomb and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC). The board had a series of meetings as part of their quarterly business event followed by a public session at the Goshen Theater with more... more

Goshen recognized for outstanding environmental planning

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

The Indiana Association of Floodplain and Stormwater Managers (INAFSM) awarded the City of Goshen the Outstanding Floodplain Project Award for creating and implementing the Goshen Flood Resilience Plan during its annual conference last week.   The annual statewide award recognizes an outstanding... more

Final brush collection of 2023

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

The final brush pickup of the year will begin the week of September 25, 2023. During scheduled brush collections, the Street Department will make only one pass through the city to pick up brush. Please have your brush by the front curb, but not in the street, by 7:00 a.m. in the morning on... more

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FINAL Summer Brush Collection

Monday, September 25, 2023

Board of Works

Monday, September 25, 2023, 2:00pm

To join the webinar please copy and paste this link on your browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82986722338 or call 309-205-3325. Webinar ID: 829 8672 2338. Comments are no longer taken online.

Shade Tree Board

Monday, September 25, 2023, 7:00pm

This meeting is in-person only.

Zero Waste Reading

 

Upcoming Webinar Topics

 

September: Waste - the Global Problem

October: Recycling - a Local Commodity

November: The Consumerism Trap

December: Break for Holidays

January: The Truth about Plastics

February: How Gardening can Reduce Your Solid Waste - Getting Started and Enhancing Your Garden Patch

March: Undetermined

April: Composting - The Many Options of Composting

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Zero Waste Reading

Check out these books at the Goshen Public Library on the Zero Waste Topic!

Goshen Public Library

Gardening

No-waste organic gardening: eco-friendly solutions to improve any garden / Shawna Coronado. Cool Springs Press, 2020.

No-waste kitchen gardening: regrow your leftover greens, stalks, seeds and more / Katie Elzer-Peters. Cool Springs Press, 2018.

Growing good food: a citizen’s guide to backyard carbon farming / Acadia Tucker. Stone Pier Press, 2019.

Organic gardening for beginners: an eco-friendly guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs / Lisa Lombardo. Rockridge Press, 2021.

Sustainable gardening: grow a ‘greener’ low-maintenance landscape with fewer resources / Vincent A. Simeone. Cool Springs Press, 2021.

The organic garden book / Geoff Hamilton. DK Publishing, 2004.

All new square foot gardening: more products, new solutions, grow vegetables anywhere / Mel Bartholomew. Cool Springs Press, 2018.

Organic gardening: the natural, no-dig way / Charles Dowding. Green Books, 2018.

 

Waste

 

Waste / Kate O'Neill. Polity Press, 2019. ISBN 9780745687407 Call Number: 363.728 ONE

Inconspicuous consumption : the environmental impact you don't know you have 538747087 Call Number: 363.7 SCH / Tatiana Schlossberg. Grand Central Publishing, 2019. ISBN 9781

 

Recycling

Can I recycle This? / Jennie Romer.  Penguin Books, 2021 ISBN 9780143135678 Call Number 363.7282 R763

Rescue, restore, redecorate : Amy Howard's guide to refinishing furniture and accessories / Amy Howard ; photography by Quentin Bacon.  Abrams, 2018. ISBN 9781419729010. Call Number: 684.1044 HOW

 

Consumerism

   It's all too much : an easy plan for living a richer life with less stuff / Peter Walsh. Free Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780743292641 Call Number: 640 WAL

Soulful simplicity : how living with less can lead to so much more / Courtney Carver. Tarcher Perigree, 2017 ISBN: 9780143130680 Call Number: 179.9 CAR

 

 

 

The year of less : how I stopped shopping, gave away my belongings, and discovered life is worth more than anything you can buy in a store / Cait Flanders. Hay House, 2018. ISBN: 9781401953515 Call Number: 153.8 FLA

 

Stuffocation : why we've had enough of stuff and need experience more than ever / James Wallman. Spiegel and Grau, 2015. ISBN: 9780812997590 Call Number: 306.3 WAL

 

The complete idiot's guide to decluttering / by Regina Leeds. Alpha, 2007. ISBN: 9781592576289 Call Number: 648.8 LEE

Throw out fifty things : clear the clutter, find your life / Gail Blanke. Springboard Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780446505796 Call Number: 648.5 BLA

 

Simply living well : a guide to creating a natural, low-waste home / Julia Watkins. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020. ISBN 9780358202189 Call Number: 640 WAT

 

Stuffocation : why we've had enough of stuff and need experience more than ever / James Wallman. Spiegel and Grau, 2015. ISBN: 9780812997590 Call Number: 306.3 WAL

 

9780393609035 Call Number: 179.9 SAS. Norton and Company, 2017. ISBN: / Fumio Sasaki ; translated by Eriko SugitaGoodbye, things : the new Japanese minimalism