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2012 Green Neighbors Tours Wrap Up This Weekend!

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September 8, 2012 10:00 amtoSeptember 9, 2012 2:30 pm

Please note that the wrap up to 2012′s tours and the 2 this weekend, the Amazon/South University “Sustainability Tour” that starts at University Park at 1PM on Sunday, is a >walking tour< this year. Biking is optional.  This will coincide with and become part of the city’s annual Sunday Streets program, where sections of streets in that area will be closed Sunday to encourage non-automobile use and healthier lifestyles.

 

Event Details

5th Annual "Green Neighbors (not just) Bike Tours"

Time: June 23, 2012 at 11am to September 9, 2012 at 2:30pm
Location: 8 various City-of-Eugene-recognized neighborhood areas
City/Town: Eugene
Website or Map: http://eugenesustainability.o…
Phone: 541.632.4321
Event Type: community-building, knowledge-sharing, home, sustainability, events
Organized By: Doug Black & the Neighborhood Leaders Council Committee on Sustainability

Event Description

2012 “Green Neighbor (Not Just) Bike Tours”

The Neighborhood Leaders Council Committee on Sustainability/NLCCoS is hosting our annual tours of neighborhood sustainability efforts. Now in our fifth consecutive summer, the tours have seen over 600 riders on over 30 different tours in 11 different city neighborhoods over the past 4 years. Hundreds of stops have been featured. This year we’ll feature first-time neighborhoods Santa Clara/Santa Clara Community Organization (SCCO), and South University (as part of the Amazon ‘hood tour Sept 9th).  Previously known as the “green home bike tours,” these events have become the more accessible “Green Neighbor (Not Just) Bike Tours.” Please join us by bike, foot (some tours may be all or partially walkable), or pooled transport to visit neighborhood examples of gardening, permaculture, green energy, rainwater collection, beekeeping, chickenkeeping, community gardens, neighborhood cooperation, and more. Don’t see your neighborhood listed and might be interested in helping lead or organize a tour? Please contact Doug at deeblack@gmail.com.

2012 Green Neighbors (not just) Bike Tours Schedule

Please dress appropriate to the weather, bring drinking water & snack food, and please leave your pets at home…
 Tours generally run ~2-3 hours…


June 23, River Road Community Organization/RRCO- Meet at Rosetta Park, 11 AM, corner of Benjamin and Evergreen

June 24, River Road Community Organization/RRCO- Meet at 1485 Hilliard, 11 AM

August 4, Combined Crest Drive, Friendly Area Neighbors/FAN tour  Meet at Common Ground Garden, 11AM

August 11, South East Neighbors/SEN; meet at Avalon Lodge, 5210 Canyon Dr, 11 AM

August 18, Bethel-Danebo/Active Bethel Citizens, meet at Peterson Barn, 870 Berntzen Road, 10AM

August 18, Santa Clara/ Santa Clara Community Organization; meet at Awbrey Park; “11AM sharp”

Sept 8,  Whiteaker, meet at Red Barn Grocery, 357 Van Buren Street, 10AM

Sept 9,  Amazon Neighbors/South University  Neighborhoods       meets at University Park, 1PM

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Amazon Bee Co-Op Hive Building

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It’s bee time again!

The Amazon Bee C0-Op will be building a new round of top-bar hives in the coming weeks.  Last year we built and installed 10 hives in the Amazon neighborhood.  We’re anticipating a similar number of new hives this year.

We work together to build top-bar hives (both Warre and Kenya style this year) for the cost of materials, about $70 per hive.

If you’re interested in building a hive for yourself for this year’s bee-season, please contact amazonbees@gmail.com for more information.  We’ll be building very soon…so don’t wait!

Fruit Tree Workshop

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March 12, 2011
10:00 amto12:00 pm

School Orchards Workshop

Instructor Tom Bettman will teach participants how to incorporate fruit trees into your school’s garden or grounds. We will focus on choosing an appropriate site, crop and variety for the trees, as well as basic tree care.

When: Saturday, March 12th from 10 AM-12 PM

Where: Camas Ridge Community School, at 1150 E 29th in Eugene

The School Garden Project will provide participants with fruit trees for their school after the workshop. SGP workshops are free for Member School teachers and volunteers, or for a  suggested $10 donation for the public.

Amazon Green Neighbors Bicycle Tour, August 21st

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August 21, 2010
10:00 amto12:30 pm

Please come enjoy a bicycle tour visiting some of the interesting ‘green’ happenings in our Amazon neighborhood.

We’ll depart from Camas Ridge Elementary School (29th and Harris) around 10AM.

We’ll enjoy a ride through the Amazon Neighborhood and will be able to visit a number of interesting garden, composting, beekeeping, building, and other green projects underway.

It’s a great way to meet new friends and gather good ideas!

Please contact David Stucky (541.543.6458) for more details or if you need a bicycle in order to participate.

2010 Sustainable Neighborhood (not just) Bike Tour Schedule

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2010 Sustainable Neighborhood (not just) Bike Tour Schedule

July

17, 18 – River Road Community Organization/RRCO. July 17 meet at 11AM at Rosetta Park, Benjamin and Evergreen. Visit pesticide-free public park space, chicken-keeping, permaculture design, green building, neighborhood collaboration, and more. Open house afterwords at suburban permaculture site at 212 Benjamin, 3 to 5PM.

August

7 – Friendly Neighborhood- West (of Jefferson St)/FAN-West (excursion into Crest Dr neighborhood 8/7). Meet at Friendly Street Market, 2757 Friendly, at 11AM. Tour will include community right-of-way cooperative “Common Ground” garden, chickenkeeping, beekeeping, edible landscaping, passive solar design home by UO women’s student architecture group, high-density new urbanism ‘Lucia Village’ community, permaculture home design presentation by Heiko Koester, and more
8 - Friendly Neighborhood- East (Jefferson St & east)FAN-East. Meet at Village School, 2855 Lincoln, 1 PM. Tour will include a permaculture design presentation by Heiko Koester, a visit to a solar PV College Hill home, as well as a visit to a home with an ultra hi-efficient ductless heat pump indoor climate system.
14 – Jefferson Westside, 10AM, meet at Monroe Park. Tour will include chickenkeeping, beekeeping, permaculture gardens, recycled garden art, water catchment, solar panels, and more. The tour homes are within walking distance of each other.
21 – Amazon, meet at Camas Ridge Community School, 1150 East 29th Avenue, at 10am. Tour will visit school gardens, feature beekeeping, chickenkeeping, communally built outdoor oven, aerobic composting, compost teamaking, passive/active solar design, rainwater catchment, green building, and more.

September

4 – Whiteaker Community Council/WCC
11- Fairmount Neighborhood- more to come.
18 – Active Bethel Citizens/ABC. Tour features a permaculture-designed eco-village, backyard chickens, rainwater catchment, ‘geo-thermal’ heating (more to come), PV solar design, and a gathering at Peterson Barn featuring locally-grown food. More to come.
19 (Sunday)- Laurel Hill Valley. 1-3 pm. Meet at Northwest Youth Corps, 2621 Augusta St. Tour by bike, pedicab and carpool. Sites feature organic gardens, PV electricity, green home design and reuse of materials, wildlife-friendly landscaping, small-scale chickenkeeping, food preservation, bioswales and watershed protection.
25 – Southeast Neighbors/SEN, meet at 450 E 30th Ave, 10 AM.

Help Needed at Camas Ridge School

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Tomorrow (Wednesday, 8/4) at noon, a truck carrying steel for our new bike shelter will arrive at Camas Ridge and will need to be unloaded. The wonderful designBridge students that are working on the project will be there, but they are looking for a few more strong hands to help them unload the steel.

When: Tomorrow – Wednesday August 4th from 12 – 1

Who: Anyone looking to get outside and lift some stuff

Where: Camas Ridge Community School – 1150 E. 29th

Please bring work gloves, and wear closed toe shoes if you can help.

The largest pieces of steel are about 150 pounds and 20 ft. long. The plan is to move them one-by-one from the truck to the yard. We need some muscle. If you feel like you can help out for an hour, please join us!

Mike McCann

(541-579-4288)

Camas Ridge School Work Parties

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July 15, 2010
10:00 amto4:00 pm

Please join us for a garden work party this Thursday (July 15) from 10am until we complete our tasks. We will be doing regular garden maintenance, as well as planting beans and possibly sunflowers (we welcome donations of both). We also hope to plant a hedge (!) along 30th on Thursday.

If you cannot make it to the morning event, we could use your help with the outdoor classroom project. EWEB volunteers will be at Camas Ridge on Wednesday, July 14, and Thursday, July 15, evenings picking up the asphalt and concrete waste generated as part of the bike shelter and outdoor classroom construction. We need Camas Ridge volunteers to lend a hand with sweeping and shoveling the debris after the backhoe has picked up the big pieces. The work parties will start at 5:30 and run until 7 or 7:30. Please stop by if you can and bring gloves, push brooms and shovels, if you have them. Thanks!!

Camas Ridge School Garden Work Party

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June 6, 2010
1:00 pmto3:00 pm

Work Party this SUNDAY, June 6, 1:00-3:00pm

Outdoor classroom & Butterfly Garden construction begins!!! Please come
Sunday afternoon, June 6, 1:00-3:00 to help remove asphalt for the new
garden and classroom. Bring work gloves, pry bars, sledge hammers,
rakes–anything you can to help us move asphalt and stone from the new
garden area.

M.O.R.E. Recycling Event

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June 5, 2010
11:00 amto4:00 pm

Don’t Dump Your Stuff!  Donate it or Trade it!

The CommUniversity Resource Assistant Program, Central Presbyterian Church, and Campus Recycling, with the support of ASUO, the Office of the Dean of Students, the UO Office of Government and Community Relations, and the Department of Public Safety present the Move Out Recycling Event.

Bring reusable furniture ,  household items, clothing, books, and other old belongings. Only items in good condition and clean will be accepted. Donations will benefit Looking Glass Independent Living Program, St. Vincent DePaul, and Habitat for Humanity!

Also bring working and non-working electronics! NextStep Recycling will reuse and recycle computers, iPods, televisions, printers, alarm clocks, and more!

Saturday, June 5th, 2010, 12:00pm-4:00pm

Prince Lucien Campbell (PLC) Parking Lot 16B
(Between 13th Ave., 14th Ave.,
Alder St., and Kincaid St.)
University of Oregon

Also bring reusable furniture, household items, clothing, books, and other belongings to these locations:

Central Presbyterian Church, 555 E. 15th Ave. (parking lot)

Saturday, June 5th, 2010, 11:00am-3:00pm
Saturday, June 12th, 2010,  11:00am-3:00pm

Koinonia Center,  1414 Kincaid St. (parking lot)
Saturday, June 12th, 2010, 11:00am-3:00pm

For more information on the event or to volunteer, contact:
Heather Marek, hmarek@uoregon.edu