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Are you looking for a way to involve your office or community group in making your city green? There are many great ways that small groups of people can make a difference, just a few hours of time, commitment to the environment and a few warm bodies will help coordinate and promote the event.
Here are 10 great ways to get your group together and meet the challenge of helping your local community leave and stay green:
- Clear an empty plot of land. Ask the neighborhood coalition to help turn it into a small park with plantings and playground equipment. In big cities, many of these properties are put up for tax auctions once a year, so keep an eye on your local IRS site, you may be able to raise funds for the property!
- Adopt a neighborhood! First, you’ll want to make a huge cleaning day event, so make sure you have snacks and rewards on hand. Take half-Friday with your staff every few weeks to keep the area clean. Your city may even have a program where you can put a sign saying that your organization is the one that keeps the neighborhood clean!
- Plant trees and flowers in community communal spaces such as median lanes and grassy areas near the curb. Make sure that if you are digging, call Miss Utility to avoid hitting the gas or water lines.
- Organize an electronic device recycling event. Ask people to bring old cell phones, older computers, and other technology. Reward all your donors with free cooking, vouchers for eco-friendly vendors or home treats.
- Organize a collection of newspapers and magazines. Let’s face it, most of us who work in offices simply let our industry publications arrive by mail and collect dust. Why not go from office to office and collect these publications? Give them to schools, libraries or send them to a recycling facility.
- Organize a competition for the “best yard” in your area in different categories. Focus on rewarding nature-friendly gardens, such as gardens that attract bees and butterflies, and those that use eco-friendly measures such as rain barrels.
- Catch a group and plant wildflowers in unexpected places. Make flower seed bombs to fill in small patches of dirt in public areas, such as a patch of dirt next to your town grocery store.
- Are you in a city that has tons of renovations? This is a great time to establish relationships with contractors and ask them to donate your reusable waste. These large 55 gallon paint discs can be re-decorated to become trash cans at community centers and parks. Wood would be an excellent donation to local theaters, gardens and others who build!
- Organize workshops in your local community and involve utility companies. Have the experts come out and explain what simple changes they can make to save water, energy and money.
- Adopt a park! Invite volunteers twice a month to help keep the park clean by providing free drinks and pizza. If there are no recycling facilities in the park, volunteer to run the program!
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Source by Melissa Brewer
