From The Ground Up. July 2010.  |
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Rocky
Mountain Green Team Kicks into Gear Proyecto
Auditorias en Commerce City Volunteer
Groups Provide Big Impact Globeville
Greens-up for Summer Social
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The Rocky Mountain Green Team -
a team of 9 young adults age 18-22 - started their work with
Groundwork Denver on June 21st. This diverse group of young men and
women will work 20 hours per week for six weeks at the Rocky
Mountain Arsenal, and in Denver natural areas and urban gardens to
prepare for an intensive three week internship in Rocky Mountain
National Park. Those three weeks will be dedicated to camping,
invasive species management, facilities management, and trail
maintenance and construction. The goal of the internship is to
expose urban young adults to green job opportunities in the National
Park system. Members of the RM Green Team come to Groundwork Denver
with a wide range of relevant experience gained through Americorps
NCCC, Big City Mountaineers and even international service work. We
are excited and proud of what these teams will accomplish this
summer! To get a closer look at their experiences 
Commerce City es una de
las comunidades en la que Groundwork Denver ha estado trabajando y
obteniendo resultados en la eficiencia de energía. En los últimos
meses hemos completado 55 auditorias en las que hemos instalando en
23 de los hogares insolacíon, y el reemplazo de cuatro
refrigeradores. Tenemos programadas para efectuar el triple de estas
auditorias próximamente. 
Over the last few months,
Groundwork Denver has had the help of over 360 volunteers who
dedicated a few hours of their time to restoring natural habitats,
knocking on doors, swapping lightbulbs, and cleaning up alleys and
sidewalks. Since March, volunteers have reduced greenhouse gas
emissions by 300 tons, improved over 3,500 feet of riparian habitat,
and cleared out 200 cubic yards of trash, recycling and compost from
the neighborhoods. A BIG THANK YOU to all of of our
volunteers, including large groups from Deloitte Impact Day, Xcel
Energy, JetBlue Airways, the Gap, Fulbright Scholars, Peace Jam,
Regis University, Colorado Petroleum, CMI Fox, Laradon Hall and New
Mexico High School Reality Projects. 
"Dump Your Junk!" was the
motto for the Globeville Neighborhood Clean Up on June 5th. A
collaborative effort between Groundwork Denver and the Globeville
Civic Association #1, Globeville Clean-Up Day was a success. More
than 50 volunteers worked to clean Globeville's alleys and sidewalks
by ridding them of glass, trash, weeds and dirt, making it easier to
walk and ride bikes in Globeville. In addition to the alley and
sidewalk clean-up, residents had the opportunity to "dump their
junk". Volunteers helped seniors and others pull unwanted "junk" out
of garages, basements and yards. Recyclables electronics,
compostables and trash were separated cubic yard by cubic yard. It
took the work of many people to make this a success and at the end
of the day there was a sense of satisfaction that Globeville had
been part of something big.