How can you help?
//These thoughts came out of the Partnership for a Green Community’s kick-off meeting on Wednesday, February 4th. Please feel free to click the edit button below to share your thoughts!
Below, we answer question #3: How can you help as an individual or as a representative of an group, business, or organization?
- Start a tree group / fill a void
- Tap existing organization for labor
- Tie existing groups together around commonalities
- Taking better care of the space and adding physical improvements
- Address the challenges of the El and flesh out what it means to be a neighborhood
- Involve SEPTA in a local activity / information dissemination
- Relationships between private enterprise and community activity
- Educate
- Market
- Plant trees
- Hold events to promote greening
- celebration
- destination
- Recycle
- Walk and bike
- Stewardship of parks
- Encourage green yards
- Trash can initiative / anti-litter campaign
- Storm grates
- following Center City model of trash prevention
- Help the community establish priorities
- Training turns people to green practices
- Rain barrels (works shops)
- Rain gardens (Guerilla Gardening)
- Economic development
- promote green business
- Promoting green building zoning
- AND "Greening the code"
- Create a neighborhood project that is tangible and that community can participate in
- Tie into national green economy movement
- STIMULUS PACKAGE
- Develop a website —> www.sustainable19125.org
- mission, guiding principles, etc
- Grassroots community action and events
- Promote sustainable development
- zoning, planning, community support and guidelines
- Connecting buildings with users (developer)
- Sustainable tours with neighborhood
- Spread information by word of mouth
- Provide guidance and expertise
- Community bulletin board
- Time + space + event provision
- Workshops
- green arch
- green roofs
- home fix
- Window decal
- Signing on to Sustainable 19125
- Be an example
- Be a watchdog
- Join an eco-oriented committee
- Talk with people, engage in dialog
- Promote existing program successes
- ie city recycling, Water Department's rain barrels
- Don't use plastic bags at stores
- Spreading information
- particularly dispelling myths
- addressing controversy
- technical guidelines / data / recommendations
- Volunteer skills & abilities to the cause
- Supporting local business
- Energy conservation
- I am looking for people who are interested in writing for the Sustainable 19125 column, a biweekly column in the Fishtown Star (content also featured in the Port Richmond and Kensington Stars). If you have a green topic of interest and enjoy writing, please let me know!
Kevin Musselman
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