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Seeking presenters and activity providers on sustainable living

Boulder Green Streets is participating in Park(ing) Spaces Day as part of Walk and Bike month, happening on June 22nd, Friday, from 10am-2pm.We are looking for people who are interested in speaking/providing actives covering topics of sustainable living and showcasing many of the exciting sustainable and community organizations at work in Boulder.Help us promote all that makes Boulder the beautiful, innovative, vibrant, sustainable community it is, and the people and organizations that make it…See More

Jun 6, 2012

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How are you currently involved in the Transition movement?: I am heading up Neighborhood Green Streets (NGS), a new division of Boulder Green Streets focusing on creating “space” for community in neighborhoods, which allows for improved quality of life for its residents and a more effective and efficient way of implementing sustainable initiatives. There is a need for a catalyst to help in both fostering the growth and development of community space – i.e. “the commons” – and help each neighborhood move towards self-reliance and sustainability.

I have volunteered for numerous events and organizations focused around sustainable living.

I have practiced three years in the field of Architecture with emphasis on innovative energy efficient building systems and passive solar design.

I live car-free and am a big proponent of cycling

In what ways do you identify with the Transition movement? Why are you interested?: As the distances we travel to get any where grows, our cities and towns spread further apart and our roads grow even wider. To accommodate increasing traffic, we are isolating ourselves from our neighbors, the places we live, nature and obliterating our community gathering places – the “commons” – our streets – the place of civic engagement, social life and social innovation.

It is a landscape designed around the car and not around people. We need to reconnect to our neighbors, the places we live, and nature – the values we hold dear – to be most effective at a transition to a better way of life.

Emerson writes to the personal benefits of the commons – “…To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, to babies and sages with open heart; in a word, to let the spiritual unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.”

What background and skills do you bring to this community?: I have two years experience in community development involving needs assessments, project development and implementation; Peace Corps, Mali West Africa

I have three years experience working in the field of Architecture with emphasis on innovative energy efficient building systems and passive solar design.

How can you help the growth/acceptance/vitality of the Transition movement?: I am heading up Neighborhood Green Streets (NGS), a new division of Boulder Green Streets, focusing on creating “space” for community in neighborhoods, which allows for improved quality of life for its residents and a more effective and efficient way of implementing sustainable initiatives. NGS sees its first role as being a catalyst to transform Neighborhoods into Community Cooperatives helping in both fostering the growth and development of community space – i.e. “the commons” – and help each neighborhood move towards self-reliance and sustainability.

We are putting on a Neighborhood to Community Building Festival. The theme of the festival would be the celebration of building community. Empowering people to take action to improve the quality of the places they live and reconnect people with their neighbors, and nature.

It will be a festival where the work is being done. There you will find neighborhoods in the act of constructing place-making projects, where festival participants can get their hands dirty, which in turn catalyzes the work as a part of a movement.

It will have a strong DIY cultural mind set complete with “how to” seminars and presentations of the value and importance of fostering community in neighborhoods with “who is doing it” inspirational pieces.

Your Favorite Books/Websites/Blogs/RSS Feeds for Information about the Transition Movement: “Superbia: 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods” by Dan Chiras and Dave Wann

“Street reclaiming” by David Engwicht

“The Citizen’s Handbook” http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/

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Seeking presenters and activity providers on sustainable living

Boulder Green Streets is participating in Park(ing) Spaces Day as part of Walk and Bike month, happening on June 22nd, Friday, from 10am-2pm.

We are looking for people who are interested in speaking/providing actives covering topics of sustainable living and showcasing many of the exciting sustainable and community organizations at work in Boulder.

Help us promote all that makes Boulder the beautiful, innovative, vibrant, sustainable community it is, and the people and…

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