Medford Health Matters

Friday, November 27th is Walk/Ride Day in Medford!

11/25/09 | 4:51 pm

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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!

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!  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 Maineportlandgreenstreets.org and West Brigford England www.greenstreetswb.blogspot.com.  We are constantly expanding to other areas 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 visit our page: How to Get Involved.

Rewards and Sponsorships:

One unique and popular feature of Walk/Ride Days, is Green Streets’ innovative idea to include local businesses in the celebrations!  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.  We call these businesses our Sponsors. To learn more about becoming a sponsor visit our page For Retail Sponsors.  To learn who our sponsors are click on the links by city: Cambridge, Somerville, Medford.

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:

• Getting involved
• Starting Walk/Ride Days in your own towns and cities
• Reading the Inspiring Stories on our website
• Reading our History, or…

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!

The Green Streets’ Team.

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