Casey Trees is sponsoring a cool summer stewardship program to keep trees watered all summer long. So far with all the rain I think we are looking good, but come late July these trees will need some love.
Check out the link:
Casey Trees Summer Stewardship Program
Updated: No clean up Saturday.
Well I missed my goal of having the May 24th clean up. The challenge I'm having is coordination. As you know this blog is dedicated to the independent spirit of community participation. However, the clean ups require coordination with the city department of public works. They are the ones who come out and pick up our trash at the end of the day. They need advance notice and if it rains then I like to postpone to Sunday, however they don't pick up on Sundays.
So I'm looking for some ideas on how to keep the clean ups going without their participation. I'm interested in more spontaneous cleanups around Shaw instead of the more planned ones.
With that said, I'm definitely thinking this Saturday is a perfect day to do another Shaw clean up. Meet up at Azi's at 10 AM and we'll figure it out from there. Who's interested?
I've been completely slacking around the world of Treebox Vodka. The man has been keeping me busy and unfortunately I haven't been tending to this world. There is still plenty of trash out there on the DC streets.
I've been thinking about the monthly cleanups lately - the last one was in March as April was a down month. I feel like the cleanups are a great community activity and provide that immediate positive feeling that we are doing something good. But overall the value is very slim I think in terms of overall impact. Just my current thoughts on the topic...
Anyway, the cleanups should still go on. I'm going to schedule the next one for May 24th. No ideas on a location yet.
1. Pick up one piece of litter as you walk around.
2. Grab a grocery bag and pick up a few pieces of litter.
3. Grab a garbage bag and clean up your block. Spend only about 30 minutes and you can clean up both sides of your block.
4. Casey Trees is hosting a tree planting on Saturday.
5. Got a treebox in front of your house? Rake out the leaves and get it ready for some spring planting.
The 2008 Home & Garden show is at the Convention Center this weekend (actually starts today).
$10 gets you in the door to check it out.
Read more at their website.
Casey Trees is a local organization that works with neighborhood groups to plant trees throughout the city. They have an extensive spring planting calendar planned for tree plantings throughout the city.
Their first event is this Saturday at Rosedale Estate Grounds. This is in upper northwest (see map below).
Here are the details:
MAIN STREET INTERSECTION: 36th St & Newark St, NWWHAT TO EXPECT: Tools and instruction are provided, along with light refreshments. This event will occur rain or shine unless the weather is severe. Cancellations will be posted on our office phone voicemail at 202-833-4010 by 7:30am the morning of the event.
You can register for the event at this link.
UPDATE: This will be on Sunday. Same details as below.
The next TreeboxVodka monthly clean up project is Sunday, March 9th. We are looking to have 30 volunteers out there - help us make our goal. The more people means the more litter we can can clean up and we can clean out the dirty treeboxes. Our target area is 7th street. Starting at Rhode Island Ave/7th and working our way down and hitting the connecting streets as well.
Details
Date: Sunday, March 9th
Time: 10:30 AM
Where: 7th & Rhode Island Ave. NW
What: We'll be starting at 7th and RI and working our way down 7th street picking up Velicoff and Steel Reserve.
Bring: Gloves, friends, any additional tools you want to use for cleaning.
I'll Supply: Trash bags, I'll have a few extra gloves, and some trash picking tongs.
What else do you need?
Truly, I don't know. Hanging out on Sunday picking up beer cans and fast food wrappers seems like reward enough. But for those inclined to incentives, then we have you covered. Come out and join us three Saturday's and you'll receive a Shaw goodie. Past 3-time litter-pickers walked away with an I (heart) t-shirt. They were very happy.
The next one is Saturday, March 8th. I'm thinking about tackling 7th Street. It's a high profile street in the neighborhood and could use some work. In addition, I have a lofty goal for March. The goal is to have at least 30 people join us. So far, we've had about 15-18 every time, but I think we can double that number. So, get your friends out there and others in the neighborhood. In addition, with more people we can do more things like more trash picking and cleaning of the treeboxes. A good spring cleaning with rakes and brooms for 7th street!
Join us Saturday, February 9th for the return of our monthly clean up project. I'm excited to get back out there and get our hands dirty with some litter and trash picking up. Check out the details below for all the needed information.
Here are the details:
Date: Saturday, February 9th
Time: 10:30 AM
Where: 5th & Rhode Island Ave. NW
What: We'll be walking around the 5th & Rhode Island Ave. area cleaning up the usual suspects of liquor bottles, fast food, cigarette butts, etc...
Bring: Gloves, friends, any additional tools you want to use for cleaning.
I'll Supply: Trash bags, I'll have a few extra gloves, and some trash picking tongs.
Extras: We still owe a few people some litter-picker incentives.
And come out to get your frequent litter-picker card stamped.
Thanks to Michael Neibauer and the Examiner for interviewing me for a section titled The 3-minute interview. You can read the article here.
And don't forget, February 9th is next clean up. Stay tuned for more info.
