Green Streets Initiative

July 2010 Walk/Ride Day Raffle Winner Wins a Petsi Pie!

Congratulations and thanks for participating in Walk/Ride Days to Amy Lewis, Senior Manager, Web Marketing at Forrester Research in Cambridge! 

"My fiancé and I choose not to own a car — we live in Arlington and both work in Kendall Square, so it’s an easy commute via bike, T, walking, bus, or some combination of those. I’ve been participating in Walk/Ride Day since my employer first announced it. I’m happy to support anything that raises awareness of — and use of — alternate means of transportation."

Forrester Research began inviting its Cambridge staff to participate in Walk/Ride Days a few years ago. Since then, they've gone international with it, inviting staff at their foreign branches to participate as well. Each year, Forrester raffles off a high end bicycle; the number of times staff participate in Walk/Ride Days determines the number of raffle entries they receive.

July Walk/Ride Day Winner: David Clemens

 

 Cambridge resident David Clemens was picked as this month’s Walk/Ride Day raffle winner and he is choosing the MassBike membership has his prize. At first learning that he won, David felt a bit guilty because: “I take the T three stops every day-- all I have to do on Walk/Ride Day is wear green and tell people about it.  But of course it doesn't have to be a sacrifice to be green!   Living in Cambridge makes it so much easier to have only one car-- we are lucky.   With 1/4 mile to the T and 1/4 mile from the T to work, I get an easy mile of exercise every day.”

David hits the Walk/Ride message home: sharing that going green is not that hard and it is not a sacrifice. He feels “lucky” to live in a transportation rich community, like Cambridge, and he is not the only one. Hundreds of thousands of us in Massachusetts have the opportunity to go green and wear green every month, thanks to our tightly packed communities with sidewalks, buses, trains, and roads that are safe for biking and walking. And across the U.S. and around the globe people are catching on and choosing to “go green” more often.

Green Streets Donor Raffle Winner: George Lynde

"I am a sculptor and painter who first learned of Green Streets when I was working on a public art project jointly with the Cambridge Arts Council and the Museum School. I had the idea that whatever bicycle parking existed in the City of Cambridge – no matter how insignificant – should get its due and be celebrated. A brass band was to perform in front of each of several bike racks, followed by the reading of a formal commendation honoring that rack. The purpose behind celebrating these humble facilities was to call attention to the need for more bike-friendly infrastructure in Cambridge, even though the City is already quite bike friendly. It's just that we have a long way to go in this Country to catch up in the area of alternatives to the automobile.

 

Well, the brass band idea never reached realization, but in the process I met Janie Katz-Christy and have kept in touch with her and even become a modest financial contributor to Green Streets. Hopefully we will collaborate soon on another important project, perhaps a Ferris wheel system for parking bikes in congested urban areas.

May Walk/Ride Day continue to grow and be successful."

George Lynde

http://georgelynde.com/

Photo: George Lynde (L), classmate Sabri Reed, and Millennium Pharmaceutical's Christian Tolentino at a Walk/Ride Day breakfast, January, 2009.

Recent Raffle Winners!

Here are some of our recent raffle winners:

 

Susi Ecker was entered in the Walk/Ride Day Raffle by checking in through our web site. Susi bikes 25 miles a day for her commute to and from work. She takes her bike on the T and even on a recent trip to Portland Oregon! Susi was the recipient of an EMS gift card.

 

Chris O'Connor was also the lucky recipient of an EMS Gift Card. Chris participated in Walk/Ride Day by walking the 2 miles of his daily commute.  

 

Catherine Allen was the winner of a Green Streets T-shirt. Catherine walked four miles to get to work on Walk/Ride Day.

 

Beverly Neugeboren also won a Green Streets T-shirt by checking in on-line. Beverly walks to work everyday!

 

Don't miss out on your chance to win prizes like these as well as many others! Check in here for the next Walk/Ride Day! 

Walk/Ride Day Raffle Winners!

Congratulations to our recent Raffle Winners!

Tammy De Sola and her son are Walk/Ride Day Raffle winners! They won 2 passes to the Omni Theater at the Museum of Science. Tammy was entered in the monthly online raffle by submitting the online check-in. Tammy and her son travel using the train, biking, and walking on Walk/Ride Days and they participate as part of the school program at Graham and Parks School in Cambridge.

 Seth Molloy was also a Raffle winner! Seth won a $10 Gift Card to Eastern Mountain Sports. Seth traveled by Bike on Walk/Ride Day and this is his main form of trasportation on most days. Seth was entered in the Walk/Ride Day Raffle by checking in online.

Rebecca Wish Esche also was the recipient of an EMS Gift Card for the Walk/Ride Day On-Line Raffle!   Rebecca travels 80 miles by train to get to work on and off Walk/Ride Days. She was entered in the Raffle by checking in online.

June Raffle Winner!

Carson Poe was the lucky recipient of our June Walk/Ride Day on-line raffle. Carson entered the raffle by checking in on-line for Walk/Ride Day. Carson used his bicycle and walked on Walk/Ride Day, and he usually travels using those means in addition to the bus and train. He is the recipient of a gift certificate to Bonny's Landscaping. Congratulations Carson!!

Many New Raffle Winners

RAFFLE WINNERS: Congratulations to Walk/Ride Day raffle winners, and special event raffle winners. (Thanks to all our raffle donors, including Eastern Mountain Sports and the Museum of Science, a couple of our most prolific donors! Also thanks to Diana Cosmas for coordinating the on-line raffle.) Pictured below: T-shirt winner Ilsa Heyman and Cambridge Peace Commission friends.

November 30th Walk/Ride Day Raffle Winners

We know that "going green" isn't always the easiest thing to do, especially in the middle of winter!  That's why we like to reward Green Streets' Walk Ride Day participants for their efforts!

To win prizes in the Green Streets' Raffle all you have to do is check in on our website, on or just after Walk/Ride Day (the last Friday of every month), answer a few questions, and you are eligible for all sorts of great prizes. 

How: On or just after Walk/Ride Day our raffle will be posted on the right hand side of our webpage, right near where you found this link.  Just click on the link that says "Check in Here" and you are on your way to winning!

Check out what some of our winners have received below! 

Jill went "green and wore green" on November 30th by walking and riding the train.  She won a $25 Gift Certificate to EMS for her efforts!

Congratulations Jill!

Other raffle winners received:

  Laura Smeaton won a $15 Gift Certificate to Christopher's Restaurant in Cambridge.

and other lucky winners received:

Museum of Science Omni Theater Tickets

Congratulations to all our Walk/Riders!

October Walk/Ride Day Raffle Winners!

On October 28th Ryan Limerick wore a green cycling jersey, biked from Arlington to his office in Cambridge, visited Toscanini's for a free scoop of ice cream. 

For his green-going efforts Ryan won a one year membership to Zip Car!  Congratulations Ryan!

Meghan Salmon was another one of our raffle winners. She picked up 2 tickets to the Museum of Science Omni Theater.  On Walk/Ride Day she celebrated by going to EMS!

Other Walk/Riders were rewarded with free Print Cartridge Refills, and more tickets to the Omni Theater.

Good Work!

September 2007 Walk/Ride Day Raffle Winners

Taliser Avery won a one year membership to Zip Car with $50.00 worth of driving.

Great work Taliser.

Other prize winners received Museum of Science Omni Theater Tickets and Free Guitar Lessons!