Upper Green Side

UGS Makes Team Effort for Streetfair Success

Today, Upper Green Side was given a booth at the Church of the Holy Trinity’s MayFair street festival. They had live music, good food, lots of interesting vendors and an all around wonderful atmosphere.

This day was truly a team effort by Upper Green Side volunteers. Jane made all the phone calls to reserve the place at the streetfair. Sarah arranged for the brochures to be printed in time. She brought them to Alex, who delivered us her table for us to use for the day along with the brochures. I manned the booth from 9-12.

Then Emily and Jodi joined me at from noon until 2pm. We talked to Frank, who is a super at a nearby building about all the energy efficiency changes he’s made in his buildling. Then Michelle helped out from 2-4pm. Finally, Dave and Karen (with her dog Brisztow) covered us through the home stretch until we cleaned up at 5pm.

Upper Green Side gave out all of our 120 copies of our new color brochure, a hot commodity. We also distributed over 50 bike maps, 100 Bike Month Calendars and 100 of the Sierra Club’s energy efficiency pledge cards.

Even more important than the numbers of flyers we distributed was all the interesting conversation we had with local people about everyday environmentalism. Many people proudly announced the changes they had made in their lives to be more environmentally friendly, like replacing their old incandescents with cool and efficient compact fluorescents.

Thanks to everyone for making today such a great success.