OCTOBER EVENTS to share

• Environment,
  Justice, and Health in the Planning Process: Strategies for Maryland is Saturday,
  October 3  (MD Department of the Environment)

·        
Tour Du Port is Sunday, October 4 (One Less Car)

·        
International Walk To School Day is
Monday, October 7 (National Center for Safe Routes to
School)

 

AND then the Roland Park Civic League Oct. 23-25^th Sustainability
Weekend one attached with emphasis on the Sunday Streets Cyclovia!!!

Sustainability
Weekend: 23-25 October 2009

The Roland Park
Civic League will kick of its Sustainability Initiative with
three-days of community activities. The event will be one of
thousands of actions orchestrated globally by the virtual
organization 350.org to raise awareness about climate change
(www.350.org).
It will involve surrounding communities and local schools and
churches. This will be the first of three Sustainability Weekends
slated through July 2010.

• On Friday,
  23 October, local students will walk or bike to school. Adults
  will find alternative ways to get to work. That week, students will
  prepare artwork and presentations on various sustainability issues:
  biodiversity, energy conservation, recycling, eco-friendly design,
  climate change and other themes. Students will earn community
  service credits for their work.

• Saturday 24
  October will be a sustainability “teach-in” and work
  day. Southbound Roland Avenue will be cordoned off from Deepdene
  Road to Indian Lane from 9AM until noon. Tables and booths will be
  set up in front of the Roland Park Library. The RPCL will have a
  table where citizens can make personal sustainability pledges and
  sign up for various sustainability-related activities. The Office of
  Sustainability, local vendors and other community organizations will
  have displays and materials on sustainability themes. Students will
  display their sustainability artwork and presentations. In the
  afternoon students will go door-to-door to drop sustainability
  leaflets and schedule homeowners for visits by the Baltimore
  Neighborhood Energy Challenge (BNEC) Program captains. The movie
  “Kilowatt Ours” will be shown continuously that
  afternoon in the RP Library.

• On Sunday,
  25 October, Roland Park will host “Sunday Streets”
  (cyclovia). Southbound Roland Avenue will be blocked at
  Northern Parkway and Cold Spring Road. All westbound lateral streets
  will be barricaded. The street will be reserved for pedestrians,
  cyclists, skaters and skateboarders from 8AM until 1PM. Students
  and other volunteers will be trained and deployed as safety
  officers. People from nearby communities will be invited to walk or
  ride to Roland Avenue. If successful, a larger Sunday Streets event
  will be organized in March 2010, connecting Roland Park, Lake
  Montibello and Druid Hill Park (the “Lake to Lake” pilot
  route).

• For more
  information contact the Roland Park Civic League (Marni)
  410-464-2525. To volunteer, contact Sustainability Initiative
  co-chairs Mike McQuestion (443-912-7655) or Rita Walters
  (443-610-3403).

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