Energy Smart is offering free, Small Business Energy Assessments to all Entergy New Orleans small business customers. Through this offering, our team of Energy Smart Energy Advisors will uncover opportunities to reduce your energy use, save on your electric bill and improve your workplace comfort.
The assessment consists of a one-hour walk-through at your business to evaluate opportunities for energy-savings. After the assessment is complete, the energy advisor will install energy-efficient products such as LED light bulbs, smart thermostat, advanced power strip, faucet aerators and pipe wrap, at no-cost to you. The energy advisor will also recommend additional upgrades that can be completed by an Energy Smart trade ally, to further reduce your energy use and lower your electric bill. These recommended projects are eligible for cash incentives that can cover up to 100% of the project cost.
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Half of Americans can’t install solar panels. Here’s how they can plug into the sun. Read the article in the Washington Post.
Expanding Solar Access: State Community Solar Landscape (2022). Read the article.
Vintage Green Review
Bulk Refill Store
3530 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70115
New Orleans' First & Only Zero Waste Supply and Bulk Refill Store. Vintage Green Review offers refills on products like cleaning detergent, hand soap, shampoo, and lotion to reduce plastic waste. Products can be shipped with next day delivery or customers can visit the store to refill their own bottles. Bottles can also be returned to the store for reuse.
New Orleans Food Co-Op
Grocery Store
Inside the New Orleans Healing Center
2372 St. Claude Ave Ste 110 New Orleans, LA 70117
New Orleans Food Co-Op is a full-service, all-natural community-owned grocery store that is open to the public, 7 days a week. New Orleans Food Co-Op is a member-owned cooperative, created for the community by the community. The grocery store has a focus on local products, products produced within the state of Louisiana or within 250 miles of New Orleans.
Marine Layer
Clothing Store
3939 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
(504) 644-2612
Marine Layer is a clothing store that recycles old clothes into new clothes. You can donate your old clothes to receive store credit and then your old clothes will be recycled and turned into new clothing items for sale. Marine Layer operates around the US but there is a store on Magazine Street. Clothes can either be shipped to Marine Layer or dropped off in store.
Buffalo Exchange
Thrift Store
4119 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
(504) 891-7443
National
Buffalo Exchange is a clothing thrift store that purchases items from customers. Customers can either walk-in or book an appointment for a store employee to review the clothing items they wish to sell. All items sold at Buffalo exchange are thrifted in this way.
Red, White, and Blue
Thrift Store
5728 Jefferson Hwy.
Harahan, LA 70123
(504) 733-8066
Red, White, and Blue is a traditional thrift store where items can be donated and then they are sold.
Seasoned
Kitchenware Thrift Store
3828 Dryades Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
Seasoned is a thrift store that specializes in kitchenware. Customers can sell their kitchenware to Seasoned and it will be resold in store and on their Etsy page.
ricRACK inc.
Nonprofit focused on textile recycling
1927 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. NOLA 70113
ricracknola@gmail.com 504-218-5205
www.https://www.ricracknola.com/
ricRACK is a nonprofit that is focused on teaching the community how to reduce, reuse, and recycle textiles. Through community outreach programs like mentorship and educational workshops, ricRACK seeks to reduce the amount of textiles that end up in landfills.
Central Carrollton Association, in partnership with Greening Carrollton, collects glass for recycling and books for two nonprofit organizations, the Symphony Book Fair and Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners. The collections take place at Faith New Orleans, 7902 S. Claiborne Ave., (corner Fern St.) the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month.
We now bring the glass to the Glass Half Full NOLA facility on Louisa St. (we used to bring it to the City's recyling center on Elysian Fields which is still an option). From their website: "We collect and convert NOLA’s glass bottles — which have been cramming our landfills for decades — into useable products: sand and glass cullet. These precious materials are used for an array of things, from coastal restoration to flood prevention to eco-construction."
With a bank of freezers and refrigerators, we stock all of our farm products – eggs, pork, beef and goat, when in season, – at Laughing Buddha daily. We quickly learned that if we could buy from neighboring farms and aggregate more local food to go along with our products, we could become more of a one-stop shop for local groceries. So today, in addition to our farm products, we receive weekly deliveries of local produce, dairy, poultry, fermented items like krauts, pickles and kombucha, raw honey, jams, jellies, pickles and preserves, fresh pasta, rice, honey and more from upwards of 20 other regional farms (primarily Louisiana and Mississippi, with some Alabama and Texas, too) and producers.
Through our neighborhood delivery hub model, you can place an order and pick up at one of eight hub locations throughout the New Orleans area. We also offer pick up at our store in Metairie.
The time has come for us to stop “recycling” plastic. Plastic as a material is not recyclable, and the very best thing we can do to celebrate Earth Day this year is to acknowledge that fact.
By Eve O. Schaub, Washilngton Post, April 22, 2024. Go to article.
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