NEN Clean & Green Summit 2010 - Green Your Home and Neighborhood

How can you make your house and your neighborhood greener? This all-day event is your chance to find out with some of San Francisco's biggest green leaders and organizations. Join us for an environmental resource fair; a Mission-based green walking tour; and practical workshops on rainwater harvesting, growing food in your neighborhood, identifying spaces for greening, and more. For highlights from the last Clean & Green Summit, visit http://www.empowersf.org/nen-clean-green-summit-2010/

Date: Saturday, May 8th
Time: 9am to 3pm
Location: Cesar Chavez Elementary School, 825 Shotwell St (map)

Registration

Registration is free but required. Visit here to sign up.

Schedule

• 8am – 9am: Resource Fair set up
• 9 to 10am: Registration sign-in
• 10am to Noon: First series of breakout groups and walking tours
• Noon to 1:30pm: Lunch, networking and resource fair time
• 1:30pm to 3:30: Final series of breakout groups and walking tours
• 1:30pm: Resource fair closes

Workshops include:

• Urban Agriculture: Growing Food in Your Neighborhood (Department of the Environment / The Parks Trust)
• How to green your neighborhood’s open spaces through Pavement to Parks and Street Parks (Department of Public Works / The Parks Trust / The Mayor’s Office)
• Rainwater Harvesting: How to capture rainwater for use in your garden (Public Utilities Commission)
• Demystifying the community challenge grant process (Community Challenge Grant Program)
• Organizing your community to stop graffiti (Department of Public Works)
• How to leverage "GreenFinanceSF," San Francisco’s new green home improvement financing program (Department of the Environment)
• Walking tours of the Mission (the NEN Team)

Sponsors

The Office of Mayor Gavin Newsom, City Administrator’s Office, Department of Public Works, Department of Emergency Management, Public Utilities Commission, 311, and Department of the Environment, San Francisco Parks Trust, Department of Recreation and Parks, and SFSAFE.