As the child of Spanish-speaking parents, 5th Ward resident Adriana Gomez has been the de facto translator for her parents since her childhood. When her father, Alvaro Gomez, owner of Al Gomez Landscaping, struggled with following Evanston’s 2023 leaf blower ordinance, she offered to help him and other local landscapers — many of whom speak.
For the past two years, Environmental Justice Evanston has been working on a prototype of a map based on environmental equities data in partnership with the city. The geographic information system mapping tool, set in motion in October 2022 by Mayor Daniel Biss as part of the Environment Equity Investigation, will identify the places in.
At their first meeting of the new year Wednesday, members of the implementation task force for Evanston’s Climate Action and Resilience Plan discussed the main contributors to the city’s greenhouse gas emissions and reviewed the 2024 agenda for sustainability and resilience before it heads to City Council. The agenda calls for more sustainable facilities in.
Natural gas may soon disappear from households in Evanston, city officials said at a Wednesday night town hall. The city hopes to phase out natural gas systems in new construction projects ― promoting cleaner, all-electric utilities instead. As of 2021, Evanston reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 38%. The city hopes to reach a 100% reduction.