DEVELOPERS AT NEIGHBORHUDDLE.COM VOLUNTEER TIME TO HELP BUILD WEST-COAST CHARITY WEBSITE DEVOTED TO SUSTAINABILTY AND CARBON FOOTPRINT REDUCTION.

A non profit organization based in Los Angeles, CA has reached out to NeighborHuddle.com, a carbon neutral business and one of the fastest growing networks of condo and homeowners associations on the Internet, to help build the digital infrastructure for their charity platform.

Both organizations are committed to the active participation of community consciousness and global problem solving, so the joint project seems highly relevant. The California-based charity called The Banana Project was founded by Stacy Hanstad, a former NCAA collegiate basketball player, turned marathon runner, turned triathlete, turned philanthropist. Her basic mission for this project is to raise awareness and funding for an Orphanage in Guatemala, by taking a zero emissions bike trip from California to Central America. Stacy says, “I chose to reach out to NeighborHuddle.com because they are extremely dedicated and passionate about offering Internet tools for community participation and collaboration with a green philosophy.”

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I’ve heard that a Christmas tree takes up as much space as a washing machine in the waste stream. I’m proud to report that NeighborHuddle and treecycle.org helped recycle over 200 washing machines, I mean Christmas trees, from the alleys of Chicago this year. On a beautiful 60 degree Sunday in January, Chris Hohenstein with the Chicago Conservation Core and I navigated a donated U-Haul truck through the residential alleys of the Lincoln Park and Lakeview neighborhoods. The good news was that we collected as many trees as we did. The bad news is that we could have worked around the clock and never run out of trees.

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Recycle for the holidays! NeighborHuddle is pleased to announce a partnership with www.trecycle.org to help recycle as many of the 300,000+ Christmas trees purchased in Chicago this holiday season as possible! Through this partnership, NeighborHuddle will be scheduling tree pickups at all NeighborHuddle communities and dropping them off at one of Chicago’s 23 designated locations where they will be turned into mulch. To learn more about the program, please visit www.trecycle.org. Happy holidays!