What is The Green Streets Initiative?
The Green Streets Initiative is a grassroots organization of people from Cambridge, Massachusetts and surrounding cities, who celebrate, promote, and advocate for the use of alternative transportation.
For environmental, health, and community building reasons, our aim is to create safer, quieter, healthier streets for commuters and citizens of all types.
Through educational efforts, and the opportunity to experience and practice alternative transportation, we help individual citizens, children, and families, discover how alternative modes of transportation can enhance their lives by creating safe, healthy, friendly communities for all.
 What are Walk/Ride Days?
The Green Streets Initiative is best known for the creation of monthly Walk/Ride Days. Walk/Ride Days occur on the last Friday of every month. On these days people everywhere are invited to go, and wear green! Stoneham will be kicking off its Walk/Ride Day on January 30th, 2009.
Our vision is to create a monthly city-wide party, which celebrates alternative transportation, gives people an opportunity to make community connections, and promotes a festive local atmosphere.
Who is Involved?
Anyone and Everyone! Our Walk/Ride Days draw from many sectors of participating communities; from schools and universities, to businesses and retailers. We began in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and quickly spread into Somerville, and Medford. We are now moving into the Boston area and have gotten started in Portland Maine portlandgreenstreets.org. In fact, we are expanding to other areas around us almost daily and we need a lot of help.
Volunteering with Green Streets is an easy and rewarding way to give back to your community. If you want to learn more about how to get involved go to http://www.gogreenstreets.org/how-to-get-involved.html
Rewards and Sponsorships:
One unique and popular feature of Walk/Ride Days, is Green Streets' innovative idea to include local businesses in the celebrations! That is, on Walk/Ride Day, people who wear and go green are eligible to partake in a host of rewards. These rewards include everything from discounts at local retailers, to the chance to win prizes in our on-line raffle. All of the businesses who participate in Green Streets, in this way are called Sponsors. To learn more about becoming a sponsor visit www.http://www.gogreenstreets.org/-stoneham-sponsors.html
What Next?
Our approach to involving such a large number of people in one movement, is to ask individual citizens to bring Green Streets into their workplaces, community organizations, and schools. Therein, these individuals acts as coordinators for our efforts. This model asks diverse groups of people to take action into their own hands through a community-oriented approach. And we need you to be involved!
Our Website is one of our tools for organizing. Please use it, and all the information we have provided, to spread the word about Green Streets by:
Just participate in Walk/Ride Days by wearing and going green on the last Friday of every month!
Please also feel free to contact us for more information: walk-ride-days@comcast.net
Happy Movements!
Walk/Ride Days in Stoneham will be kicking off in January, 2009. Please invite your favorite establishments to get on board, and celebrate with these wonderful sponsors!
For more information, contact the Stoneham Green Streets Coordinator, Hilary Celentano: yorkielover60@aol.com.
The Green Streets' Team.
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