Events - Greening Sacred Spaces Network Workshop

Greening Sacred Spaces Network Workshop

Topic: Sustainable Transportation

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Time: 7pm-9pm
Location: Room 508, 99 Regina St., Uptown Waterloo (Regina and William, Click here for map)
Transit Routes: GRT buses 5, 7C, 7D, 7E and iXpress, King/William Street stop; bike parking available in front of 99 Regina St.

Workshop goal: to give faith groups the tools that they need to plan a successful event, educational series, etc. to promote sustainable transportation in their faith communities, such as:

• Organizing a 'walk to worship' day (based on the successful 'walk to school' day in April), including issues such as barriers to participation, how to organize a successful event
• Organizing an ongoing ‘walkathon’ event (e.g. Christian churches sometimes sponsor a virtual pilgrimage during lent, where participants keep track of the distances they walk, and tally these distances to ‘walk to Jerusalem’)
• Providing information about organizations that can help them promote sustainable transportation, such as Grand River Carshare, Grand River Transit, Recycle Cycles
• ther ideas that faith groups could integrate: bike maintenance workshops at their place of worship, carpool organization, GRT information, installing a bike rack

 

RSVP by February 19, 2010

Contact Jane Snyder at (This email address is being protected from spam bots, please enable Javascript to view it.)  or 519-747-5139