WHAT IS BOULDER GREEN STREETS?
Boulder Green Streets (BGS) promotes active, healthy living, sustainability and strong community. We do this by creating expanded public, park-like spaces through large-scale street liberation projects. Extensive and free activity programming gets all ages, economic levels, ethnicities and genders out to play together to experience sustainability first hand.
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We are now in full planning mode for the 2012 Ciclovia event that Boulder Green Street hosts in September. We been sending out surveys and gathering information from those that attended and supported the event. What we’ve been hearing consistently is that visitors want MORE! Actually a lot more.
We are looking at the potential of expanding the route’s length and/or the number of event days. We’d love to hear your thoughts, ideas and feedback. Please send your suggestions to: info@bouldergreenstreets.org
Stay tuned for scheduled public meetings/gathering that we’d love you to attend. This is an event for the people, coordinated by the people of Boulder and we want you to know that everyones input is valuable.
Please join our community online or in person. Stay update on twitter and facebook where we post daily and weekly posts.
If you’d like to be added to our list of potential 2012 Sponsors or Vendors please also let us know. We’ll send you out information packets shortly and let you know how to get involved. Our event is selective… We want companies and businesses that represent the best, working to create true community, health, and sustainability in our world and neighborhoods. Are you one of those groups? Let us know.
It takes a lot of hard work and a lot of energy by many volunteers and community businesses to make Boulder Green Streets possible. And many more to make it a fantastic day. Your thoughtful words remind us of the value of what we do and help sponsors and businesses know that Boulder cares and wants to see more BGS.
Here is one of the positive emails we received yesterday:
“I thoroughly enjoyed the BGS event …it was very much a beautiful, organic, community enriching experience. I certainly felt the synergism of what Boulder stands for….and personally enjoyed a variety of my favorite things ~ healthy, wholesome foods / teas & skin care products….& being outdoors for the day. It was especially fun to go exploring up and down the transformed Pearl Street…which did, for a day, feel like a giant community gathering with delightful tastes of Boulder abounding. Thanks so much! What an innovative idea & a perfect fit!”
- Allison, 10/3/11.
This last Sunday was another hot and sunny day and it was hard to believe that so many people were out painting the streets in the Goss Grove neighborhood. That asphalt gets hot!
This past weekend marked one of the latest street liberation events hosted with the support of Boulder Green Streets. “We are calling these small neighborhood events NGS’s, or Neighborhood Green Streets events” says Brian Crawford, one of the members of Boulder Green Streets volunteer team.
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Boulder Green Streets (BGS) has been quietly piloting a number of Neighborhood Green Street events this summer with the goal of launching a full scale program in 2012. “We’ve been excited this summer to see how many neighborhoods have been interested in the program and to see how many groups have asked for help deepening sustainability in their neighborhoods” says Griffith, Executive Director at Boulder Green Streets.
“These events go beyond the block party” she says, “these events help neighborhoods address a myriad of sustainability issues. We help them not only find funding and community partners, but also work with community members to help them understand the permiting process. If they need insurance, barricades, or other support we can give it to them. Neighborhoods get things done faster, easier and often more cheaply than they might on their own if they work with BGS”.
This weekend, Boulder Green Streets helped its sixth neighborhood of the 2011 season host a Green Streets program. More exciting still was that Boulder Green Streets worked with the neighborhood and GoBoulder to help the Goss Grove neighborhood do a “Paint the Pavement” program. Check out the Daily Camera story about the painting and NGS event here.
Griffith believes the “Paint the Pavement” program is a wonderful starting point for neighborhoods to “develop a visual monument that reminds neighbors what you are about, or what you stand for as a group. This is a powerful move” she says. The process of determining what image defines you Griffith believes helps deepen and strengthen neighborhood relationships, community and help define neighborhood subculture.” Boulder Green Streets plans to host many more Neighborhood Green Street events in 2012 and hopes to work closely with neighbors, artists and GoBoulder staff to encourage more Paint the Pavement programs throughout the Boulder area. Stay tuned for announcements and details in the early part of 2012.
The First Activity Passport Prize Winner
Over the next few weeks Boulder Green Streets will be announcing the lucky winners of our Activity Passport program. If you missed seeing this in the newspaper insert, online or at the event check out this link to learn more about the program.
Today we congratulate Pam Mayer our first winner!
Today’s prize is GAIAM’s Sol Yoga Mat. This Eco Yoga Mat is perfect for the yogi who is equally passionate about planet and practice. It’s made from TPE, a material that is 100% recyclable and biodegradable. It also has a unique closed-cell structure, locking out moisture, odor and germs.
Happily Pam took a yoga class while at Boulder Green Streets and also participated in over sixteen different activities throughout the day. Way to go PAM! We are looking forward to hearing more about Pam’s experience at Green Streets and about how she plans to put her new yoga mat to use. We want to thank GAIAM for their prize donations and sponsorship of Boulder Green Streets.
Hello BGS Friends!
Now that we’ve returned the barricades and packed the event day boxes away in storage we wanted to take a moment to say thanks.
 
Thanks to everyone who helped make Boulder Green Streets 2011 Ciclovia event such a wonderful success! We believe somewhere between 10,000-15,000 people attended the event, many spending several hours moving up and down the mile long event space. We’ve had many thank you’s and positive feedback about the day. We were so pleased the weather cooperated and we hope you all had a great day!
 
Please check out yesterday’s Boulder Daily Camera article regarding Boulder Green Streets. There is also a video which highlights members of the Organic Alley Pavilion, vendors like O Dance Studio and the City’s Boulder Parks & Recreation gymnastics program.
Have a look: http://www.dailycamera.com/privateschoolsa-m/ci_18923904
Thank you to our presenting Sponsor the City of Boulder! A special thanks to the City of Boulder departments that helped us make this day possible through their generous contributions: GoBoulder, Local Environmental Action Division (LEAD), Parking Services, and Boulder Parks & Recreation. We could not have put this event on without all of your collective contributions, effort, and support.
 
Thank you to all of our additional Sponsors: Whole Foods Market, Rudi’s Organic Bakery, Boulder’s Best Organics, Western Disposal, BIBA, Boulder Valley Credit Union, Marv’s Towing, Avid 4 Adventure, YMCA, Lighthouse Solar, Boulder BCycle, Community Cycles, Swift Turtle, Ecosystems, Lillabee, Hunaman Chai, Eldorado Springs water Company, the Boulder Daily Camera, Redirect guide, KGNU, and Elephant Journal.
 
A special thanks to all our “zone” partners this year: The team at Boulder’s Best Organics and Compass Natural Marketing (Steve Hoffman, Tiffany Tompkins, Seleyn DeYarus, Emily Lawrence, James Townsend, James Young and Richard Rose) for their development and management of the Organic Alley Pavilion. LeAnn Faulkner, Jennifer Johnson and others at BIBA for their work on the “Local & Loving It” Economic Zone and Civic area. Valerie D’Ambrosio, Rachel Gasner and all from the Hanuman Festival who helped put together the Yoga Zone. Each did a fabulous job creating unique experiences along the route making this year VERY dynamic!
 
Thank you to all our vendors and activity providers. There are too many to list but know that your funds and energy helped make Boulder Green Streets a FREE and fantastic event. We appreciate all the workshops, gifts, teaching and classes you all offered.
 
A special thanks to BGS staff and volunteers. A special thanks to Jesi Vandeputte, who joined me as full time staff member in mid May and who worked so hard before, during and after the event. And of course, I must give a shout out to outstanding volunteers like Brian Crawford, Myriah Conroy, Courtney Harkins, Ryan Van Duzer, Kwesi Justice (who all helped on the fashion show and beyond), Greg Haarburger (on barricades and power), Niki Eways (parade), Karl & the Cargo team members (cargo bikes supported errand running and delivery along the route helping us be even more sustainable), and to Rob, Lisa, Alec and many others who worked as traffic marshals (essential). There are too many people to list but we want to know that all of you (you know who you are) are deeply appreciated.
 
Last of all, thanks again to all the visitors that came to the event. Together we transformed a mile of Boulder streets to celebrate sustainability, well-being and community! We look forward to continuing this Boulder event in 2012 and hope you’ll continue to join us at various events throughout the year. Stay tuned for meet up’s, fundraisers, fun photographs, stories, and general information on our website, blog, facebook and twitter pages.
Warm Regards,
Hillary Griffith, Founder and Executive Director, Boulder Green Streets
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