Following the successful 10 in 2010 Cambridge Bus Challenge and due to popular demand, Green Streets will be sponsoring a 2011 Bus Challenge again this year:

Ride 11 different bus routes in the MBTA system, sign in online, and join us in January, 2012 for a celebration of those who met the challenge!

East End House is located at 105 Spring Street, Cambridge, MA 02141! Wear Green and Go Green, and join us!

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The following letter appeared in the Cambridge Chronicle of February 3, 2011, and expressed our thanks to all who were involved:

To the Editor,On behalf of the hundreds of people who attended last Friday's 3rd Annual Harvard Square Business Association's Free, Hot Walk/Ride Day breakfast, I'd like to thank many for its great success. Their contributions created a wonderful celebration encouraging and thanking people for making sustainable, community-building and healthy transportation choices.  Thanks, especially, to our generous donors:

• Au Bon Pain
• Boloco
• Eliot Street Cafe (Dunkin Donuts)
• Finale
• Fire and Ice
• Henrietta’s Table
• JP Licks
• Oggi Pizza

Our sponsors:Harvard University and Harvard Square Business Association

Our exhibiting partners (who tabled outdoors in frigid temperatures):

• Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group (CCEAG)
• Cambridge Community Development Department
• Cambridge Energy Alliance
• Cambridge Local First
• CycleKids
• Friends of Alewife Reservation

Friends of the Community Path

• MassBike
• NuRide
• TROMP
• RelayRides
• Urban Adventours
• WalkBoston
• ZIPCAR

And, for graciously presiding over the 10 in 2010 Bus Challenge Awards:

• Ned Codd, MassDOT
• Mayor David Maher
• Erik Scheier, MBTA
• Superintendent Jeffrey Young, CPSD

We'd also like to thank Fire and Ice's John Schall, who manned the Green Eggs table, cooking up 60 dozen eggs and hundreds of sausages! And infinite thanks to Denise Jillson, Executive Director and Matthew Frank of the Harvard Square Business Association, who rolled up their virtual and actual sleeves and really made this happen! (Sincere apologies to anyone we've left out!)Of course, thanks to all who attended! It was so much fun to see you all. We look forward to continuing this wonderful winter tradition on January 27, 2012, and welcome others to join us then, and to “go green” on all the Walk/Ride Days in the intervening months! Janie Katz-Christy, Director, and Sarah Fresco, Cambridge CoordinatorGreen Streets Initiative

www.GoGreenStreets.org

MassBike is your advocate making bicycling safe and accessable in Massachusetts and when you pledge to Wear Green and Go Green on February 25th, Walk/Ride Day you have the chance to win a FREE membership to this great organization.

Your membership will also save you money all year long on repairs at local bike stores, for more details please visit their website.

We invite you to join us and members of the Cambridge Police Department to view and discuss a SafeRoutes to School webinar

  Focusing on Involving Law Enforcement in Programming to Increase Numbers of Children Walking and Biking to School

Date: Tuesday, February 22, 1:00 - 2:00 PMLocation: Community Room, Cambridge Public Safety Building, 125 6th Street, East Cambridge

Green Streets appreciates collaborating with the Cambridge Police Department, and is committed to continuing and strengthening joint programming with them and other community partners on Walk/Ride Days.

Please email sarah.cambridge.walk.ride.days@gmail.com to let us know if you would like to join us.

Block after block, many of our neighbors put in many hours shoveling and sanding sidewalks this winter. Their work ensures that those who live, work, play, shop and go to school in Somerville and Cambridge can easily and safely walk. 

Recognize their role in keeping Somerville and Cambridge moving all year round by nominating a block in your neighbohood for the "Best Shoveled Block" contests in either city. Do you live on a Best Shoveled Block yourself? You can nominate your own block and neighbors!

Nominations are due on February 25th, Walk/Ride Day. Winners and community members will be invited to an awards celebration on March 25th, Walk/Ride Day.

 Somerville Nominations:

Call (617) 666-2332. or email Margaret.C.Dimock@usps.govto nominate a block.

Cambridge Nominations:

Call (617) 575-8338 or email walk-ride-days@comcast.net to nominate a block.

Do you ride your bike along a regular route through Cambridge? Do you ride year-round?The Cambridge Public Health Department, in collaboration with researchers at BU, MIT and Harvard are looking for a group of dedicated bicyclists to transport miniatureair samplers as they travel on their usual routes across Cambridge. Samplers willmeasure air pollution along roadways and the data will be used to test the efficacy of the technique. You will be helping us understand the quality of our air and how much cyclistsmay be exposed to along our major streets and parkways!

For more details, please contact Mike Ginieres at 617-665-3848 or mginieres@challiance.orgCambridge Public Health Department

These new bookmarks are all the rage! Click here for a downloadable version to distribute in your workplace, community or school. (Email us for a black and white version.)

Thanks to the Cambridge DPW for providing much needed sand to residents and business owners and for getting out the word about "Best Shoveled Block Contest"!

You will not want to miss this! If you're in the Boston area, in, near, or commuting through Harvard Square this coming Walk/Ride Day, join us!  Spread the word and invite your friends, family, and colleagues to join you! (color flyer, b+w (looks great on green), 4-on-page.)

It'll be a hearty and fun affair – it has been great in the past, and we expect to be both inside and outside Holyoke Center. The Harvard Square Business Association will be providing a delicious HOT breakfast, including, we hear, Fire and Ice's green eggs and sausage, and lots more from other Harvard Square eateries! (updates at www.harvardsquare.com)

Come hang out with your favorite dignitaries, including Cambridge Mayor Maher, BostonBikes' Nicole Freedman, Cambridge School Superintendent Jeff Young, School Sustainability Director Kristen Von Hoffman, Cambridge School Committee members and City Councillors, Superintendent Haas and other members of the Cambridge Police Department, DOT's Ned Codd, and fellow green commuters. 

This year, for the first time, there will be exhibitors tabling at the event. So far, they include:

• Cambridge Community Development Department
• Cambridge Climate Emergency Action Group
• Cambridge DPW Recycling Program
• Cambridge Energy Alliance
• Cambridge Local First
• CycleKids
• Friends of the Community Path
• MassBike
• NuRide
• RelayRides
• TROMP
• Urban Adventours
• WalkBoston
• ZIPCAR

and, of course, Green Streets!

On behalf of Green Streets and the HSBA (not to mention all those who will be breathing cleaner air, etc!) we look forward to seeing you!

Thank you, as always!

Janie Katz-Christy, Director www.GoGreenStreets.org walk-ride-days@comcast.net