The Denver Recycles Action Network is a volunteer program designed to be flexible and take advantage of each individual volunteer’s skills and connections within the Denver community. All we ask is that you commit to dedicating a minimum of 15 minutes a month to educating those around you about Denver Recycles and how they can reduce their waste. How you achieve that goal is up to you. Denver Recycles will assist in your volunteer efforts by providing you with the training, informational resources and staff support you need. We’ll communicate with you regularly about what special recycling events we have on the horizon and what results we are achieving together as an Action Network.

Learn more and register to become a volunteer

Denver Green Streets, a green e-zine and directory, launching February 15, 2011

February 15th, 2011 will mark the launch of Denver Green Streets, a new e-zine and directory focused on green and sustainable living in Metro Denver and Colorado. The e-zine will feature a green directory that is free of charge to any business or organization that meets our green screening policy.

Also included in the publication will be tips on how to go green, alternative transportation, environmental resources, an interactive events calendar, local and national news, Green Streets TV, a green job board, and more. Additionally, each month we will publish several intriguing and original articles including the following columns:

"Feature Article" will be our headliner column and will focus on environmental topics of broad interest to our readers.
"Street Scene" will be a more cutting-edge, local article with emphasis on non-mainstream urban eco topics.

Kurt Whitt, Founder of Denver Green Streets, commented, “Our goal is to help our readers understand environmental issues, both locally and globally, and suggest ways in which we can work together to resolve them. We recognize that the wild and wonderful world that we live in is starting to disappear. That is why we share a strong commitment to protecting our lands, waters and everything in between. We believe in using online media as a tool to inspire solutions to the environmental crisis. Please join us.”

The first edition of the e-zine will include a Feature Article by Robbie Knight about the making of the award-winning film, "Vanishing Of The Bees." This documentary film, narrated by Ellen Page, takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political, and ecological implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee.

In Street Scene, Greg Ching shares a story of appropriate technology involving an economically disenfranchised group. Given that the free market doesn't work when folks have no money, his first column will examine how one poor neighborhood in the Denver area turned an abandoned parking lot into a prosperous vegetable garden - reversing what Joni Mitchell feared in her song "Big Yellow Taxi."

“They took all the trees, and put them in a tree museum

And they charged the people a dollar and a half to see them

No, no, no, don't it always seem to go

That you don't know what you've got till it's gone

They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot”

About Denver Green Streets

Denver Green Streets is Metro Denver and Colorado's green, eco friendly and sustainable e-zine and directory, offering tips on how to go green, alternate transportation, as well as other environmental related resources, an events calendar, local and national news, Green Streets TV, a green job board and more.

Our readers include all shades of “green,” from baby boomers that walk, bike and use public transportation to avoid excessive use of fossil fuels, to young students, professionals, and couples just learning about the benefits of sustainable living.

For additional information on Denver Green Streets, please visit our website or you can find us on the following social media outlets including Twitter , Facebook and LinkedIn.

Colfax Green Partnership

The Colfax Green Partnership is a combined effort between the CBID, The City of Denver, Colfax on the Hill and the West Colfax Improvement District. Working to promote the ‘Small Business Efficiency Program’, the Partnership is committed to helping businesses along America’s longest avenue save money by saving energy. All businesses that fall within CBID are invited and encouraged to participate in the program.

Enroll in the ‘Small Business Efficiency Program’ Today: Join your neighboring businesses on Colfax in a free greening initiative! As a Colfax business you have the opportunity to save money and reduce your footprint by enrolling in Denver’s Small Business Efficiency Program. There is no charge for involvement and the impact on your business (and the environment) is almost immediate.

We provide free high efficiency lighting upgrades as well as faucet aerators, which can help you start saving immediately.
We can facilitate lighting, energy and water analyses (at NO cost!) to analyze your building and recommendation steps you can take to improve your efficiency.
We will support you in identifying and attaining rebates based on the result of your energy audit. We maintain and provide an extensive list of the complimentary programs happening in Denver and around Colorado aimed at educating business owners in green business practices.

The Colfax Business Improvement District believes in promoting a healthy natural environment as well as a healthy business environment. The Colfax Green Partnership promotes both in tandem. We encourage you to capitalize on the rebates and knowledge made accessible through this Partnership. E-mail stephanie@colfaxave.com or call CBID at 303-832-2086 if you have any questions.

Energy Star Program for Businesses in the Colfax Business Improvement District:

Virtually any small business can improve its energy efficiency easily and cost-effectively, using the numerous resources that are available both from ENERGY STAR, as well as a wide variety of other organizations. These resources are available to help you through the process of completing an upgrade.

The Colfax Business Improvement District is proud be working with ENERGY STAR and we continue to hold Small Business Energy Improvement Cost and Tax Savings workshops. Through the "Portfolio Manager" program at the ENERGY STAR website, businesses can learn to manage energy and water consumption, rate your building energy performance, estimate your carbon footprint and more.

Partner with ENERGY STAR to become an environmental leader. Through improvements in energy performance, retailers can reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction, and enhance corporate profitability, all while reducing the carbon footprint of retail stores, supermarkets, and restaurants.
Visit the "Getting Started Page"

Please feel free to contact our ENERGY STAR partners for more information:

Patty Crow - crow.patty@epa.gov
US EPA Region 8
ENERGY STAR® Program
1595 Wynkoop Street, Denver, Colorado 80202-1129
303-312-6464 business, 303.312.6044 fax

Kate Gregory - gregory.kate@epa.gov - 303.312.6175

For additional information contact Stephanie at the Colfax Business Improvement District at 303.832.2086 or by email, stephanie@colfaxave.com

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