Green Neighborhood Council
March 24, 2008 6pm Neighborhood Center
Streets of Green Planning Meeting Present: Daniel Lawse (Neighborhood Center), Trilety Wade (GNC), Tim Hemsath (Flatwater), Cynthia Shuck (Gifford Park), Cammy Watkins (Sierra Club)

Agenda:

Opening Round (5minutes)

Brainstorming Session (25minutes)
Date: September 6th,
Following Bank of the West - Neighborhood Summit in Omaha
Piggy back following summit

Green Home Tours – 4-5 homes.
1-5pm on a Saturday. Ticket fee $5
GNC organized mission with, Food – Water – Energy – Materials & Resources
FOOD – John Pollock, Edible garden tour w/ free samples.
[cammy, address, tour items, seed exchange]
Coop person [TRILEY] or Producer at house.
Pam Dailey Save our Hills, Washington County
Biodiversity and food security.
Brian Smith - Backyard urban garden – giveaway at house.

Glen Pollock – native prairie

ENERGY – Daniel Lawse – 350 N. 36TH Ave
Energy Items List, From here go on Green walking tour – neighborhood green, bike shop, community garden, walkscore.com

WATER – Trilety Wade – 5073 Jackson Ave
Inside and outside the house, water conservation, rain garden, rain barrel, aerators, toilet/sink. Make your own rain barrel list.

WASTE/RECYCLING – Edith Buis' home – Dundee Green Renovation
NEED TO CONTACT – Edith Buis ask what materials, living in a small house – Trilety Wade/Tim Hemsath
Stage a house for low-waste home
Mike Schamlaw - low-waste home, Then we could discuss who/how to find out more about Edith's home and architect/contractor as well as logistics/possibilities for the low-waste home.

TRANSPORTATION
Gifford Park Bike Shop – Transportation Component as part of event.
Schedule bike ride – midtown ride. [Cynthia]

Green Lifestyle – cleaning, recycling

Be in specific area to focus in area.
Emphasize greening is Not expensive and hard.
Inside and outside the home.
Cool and aha with green homes. Aerators for faucets. Wrapped water heater. Signs up for description of items with cost savings over a year. Rain Gardens and Rain Barrels. Demonstrating the economics of green and improving comfort.
LIFESTYLE - Neighborhood nature tours
Gifford Park community garden tour. Five years running.
Cynthia Shuck - Walking neighborhood on the hour every hour. tours 2-4pm, guided tours starting at specific times and within the Gifford Park.

Jack Phillips give tree tour, native grass tour. Daniel walk down cass street past community garden (by City Spouts) to Bike house. Signage for tour. Omaha by Design, place game facilitators at intersection at 33rd and California.
Yard Signs – To talk about each tree.

HOME TOUR
Need Yard Sign for each house to advertise house.

Need 4 volunteers per home. Each house has volunteer stations for self-guided tours, homeowners labeling items for volunteers and visitors. Flatwater sponsor tags for homes. Have checklist for green items within each house, list costs of items and take list to ACE to receive discounts. Have expiration date on list by end of month.

EACH HOUSE MAKE “shopping” LIST OF ITEMS BY MAY 19TH for nametages and ACE discount sponsorship

ADMISSION
$5 Charge gets admission to all house the Map is the Ticket for entrance into each house

GIVEAWAY
at each house
– Sierra Club sponsor – Cammy Watkins
Grand prize drawing - $100 limit
- four larger prizes, separate have baskets at each house.
ENERGY – OPPD energy Audit
WASTE – Verma (worm) Composting System
WATER – Rain Barrel
FOOD – Coop membership – Food gift

One particular giveaway items at each house
WASTE house, Canvas, or recycled plastic bags from
ENERGY – Free tube of caulk, foam outlet cover gasket thingy, little energy savor book
FOOD – Keep Omaha Beautiful MUD seeds or NSA – giveaway plant materials – food producing plant seeds
WATER – bathroom faucet aerator

Teresa Gleason help with - Media Sponsor – press release - tv or radio or newspaper promotion for event. Omaha World Herald, Channel 7 and Fox.

Street of Greens Boulevard Omaha by Design

All inclusive of the community
Start small and take one thing bring in more collaborators and m make this much larger, multi-day event.
Bike tour of neighborhood boulevards

Name decision (10minutes)

Green Neighborhood Council
Green Home Tour Food . Water . Waste . Energy . Transportation Neighborhood Sustainability


Planning Committee (10minutes)
Duties and responsibilities

Daniel - First 100 of each thing

TUESDAY, May 20th – 6pm NEXT, Green Streets Meeting