Boston Green Awards nominations due March 18
Let’s help get Dorchester’s green-living resident role models and sustainable businesses recognized! Do you know an individual or a business making a difference here in Boston’s largest and oldest neighborhood? Nominate them before March 18th for one of Mayor Menino’s 5th Annual Green Business, Residential and Bike Awards – this year a new Sustainable Food Leadership Award has been added.
Mayor Menino recognizes that Boston businesses and residents are an integral part of our efforts to turn Beantown into Greentown. The city wants to honor those businesses, residents and community leaders who are at the forefront of sustainability, from energy and water conservation, providing the healthiest Continue Reading »
Codman Square Health Center recognized as Bike Friendly Business
On Thursday, May, 20, 2010, Mayor Menino will recognize Codman Square Health Center as a bronze-level Bike Friendly Business. The Mayor’s Bike Friendly Business award program recognizes Boston companies that encourage bicycling among their employees by engaging in bicycle friendly practices – this has the added benefit of making them more bike friendly for customers as well. By adopting a few basic, inexpensive practices, companies can significantly “improve the climate” for cycling in Boston.
Codman Square Health Center already supported bike commuting with a bike rack close to the front entrance and free shower facilities for employees. A few other simple steps (providing a link on their website to information for employees who would like to commute by bike, for example) garnered the award. The Codman Square Health Center is also exploring setting up a bike share program for employee work trips, using bike messengers for local deliveries, signing up a team for Hub on Wheels event in September, and guaranteeing a ride home for bike commuters in the event of a family emergency.
The Bike Friendly Business Awards are part of Mayor Menino’s vision to make Boston a greener, more sustainable, and livable city. Thursday’s honorees will receive a “Mayor Menino Bike Friendly Business” window sticker. We hope you will join us at the 2010 Bike Friendly Business Awards Ceremony, Thursday May 20, 2010, 11 AM at City Hall Plaza.
Green Business Workshop
A hands-on community forum for local neighborhood business owners in Boston -making businesses environmentally sustainable while keeping the changes affordable.
Thursday April 29, 6-9 PM. Co-sponsored by Uphams Corner Main Street. Lots of resources including local micro-lenders on-site [ACCION USA, Dorchester Bay Neighborhood Loan Fund, New Generation Energy Micro-Loan Program] and a resource table with FREE materials on ways to reduce your carbon footprint while improving your bottom line!
At the Northeastern University School of Law, Dockser Hall, Room 220, 65 Forsyth Street, Boston 02115. To attend or get directions, please call: Alison Moronta at 617-522-2424 x 226 or email Leslie.Belay@verizon.net.
