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Portland Green Streets

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Welcome to the Green Streets initiative for Portland, Maine! The aim of this site is to share information, resources, and get folks psyched to get around green.

Portland Green Streets is a grassroots effort to change commuting behavior away from the single-occupancy automobile – and is comprised of people who commute through, live, work, study, or send children to school in Greater Portland.

What we do and why we do it

For environmental, health, safety, economic, and community building reasons, we have created Green Streets Day.  It occurs on the last Friday of every month.

On Green Streets Day, we encourage people throughout Greater Portland to:

  1. Wear Something Green (shirt, pants, socks, whatever!)
  2. Get Around Green (walk, bike, bus, carpool, telecommute, etc.)
  3. And then to Celebrate! (by signing in for freebies and discounts from local businesses)

We hold a region-wide party on that day, with each individual – and institution – celebrating and encouraging in its own way.

So throw on something green for the last Friday of the month – and share a car ride, hop the bus, drive your bike, or put one foot in front of the other. And watch out – because you will not only do good, but feel good, too!

So who qualifies as a Green Streeter?

It’s simple. A Green Streeter is someone who’s primary form of transportation avoids being in a single-occupancy vehicle (i.e. in a car by oneself) on Green Streets Day. (For example: grocery shopping by bike, working from home, walking to the park, taking the bus to see friends – or the ferry or train, carpooling to a meeting, catching the vanpool to work, etc.) Green Streets is for everyone: retired folks, employed folks, kids in school, kids on vacation, stay-at-home parents, people who have the day off on Fridays, people on vacation, teens hanging out – EVERYONE.

Please sign in each month that you participate! (Before, on, or just after Green Streets Day) – it takes 1 minute. Signing in provides us with great collective green commuting data.

Participate:

Mark your calendar for Green Streets Day each month! Green Streets Days for 2010 are: 

Jun 25

Jul 30

Aug 27

Sep 24

Oct 29

Nov 26

Dec 31