The Green Neighbor Bike Tours for this month will be held on August 7, 8, 14, and 21 [see schedule below]. For those who can’t bike or don’t have one, Eugene Pedicabs will be available for certain parts of the tour.
The tours event – now in its third year – features eco-friendly Eugene sites and buildings, presentations and demonstrations. This year, tours will also feature first-time Bethel, and Laurel Hill Valley Neighborhoods.
According to the Eugene Neighborhood Leaders Council Committee on Sustainability:
“The tours will visit sites with different combinations of grass to garden, rain water catchment, active and passive solar design, green-building technique, chicken-keeping, non-conventional residential arrangements, permaculture, beekeeping, habitat restoration, neighborhood initiatives and more.”
August Tour Schedule
- AUGUST 7 – Friendly Neighborhood- West (of Jefferson Street)/FAN-West (excursion into Crest Drive neighborhood). Meet at Friendly Street Market, 2757 Friendly, at 11:00 a.m. Tour will include community right-of-way cooperative “Common Ground” garden; chicken-keeping; beekeeping; edible landscaping; passive solar design home by UO women’s student architecture group; high-density new urbanism ‘Lucia Village’ community; permaculture home design presentation by Heiko Koester; and more.
- AUGUST 8 - Friendly Neighborhood- East (of Jefferson Street)/FAN-East. Meet at Village School, 2855 Lincoln, 1:00 p.m. Tour will include a permaculture design presentation by Heiko Koester; a visit to a solar PV College Hill home; as well as a visit to a home with an ultra high-efficient ductless heat pump indoor climate system.
- AUGUST 14 – Jefferson Westside. Meet at Monroe Park at 10:00 a.m. Tour will include chicken-keeping; beekeeping; permaculture gardens; recycled garden art; water catchment; solar panels; and more. The tour homes are within walking distance of each other.
- AUGUST 21 – Amazon. Meet at Camas Ridge Community School, 1150 East 29th Avenue, at 10:00 a.m. Tour will visit school gardens; feature beekeeping; chicken-keeping; communally built outdoor oven; aerobic composting; compost tea-making; passive/active solar design; rainwater catchment; green building; and more.
For more information, email Dee Black or call 541.485.6846.
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Its a good way to get some exercise and tour the city while being green about it.
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