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REGISTER YOUR 2009 EGG TEAM HERE!
Register here for the Ninth Annual Great 55th Street Egg-Less Relay on Bike to Work Day! Or simply e-mail your company and team name.
This years event includes FREE LUNCH AND ICE CREAM.
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
5775 Flatiron Pkwy, located east of 55th Street
Hundreds of employees from various companies will compete in this contest of wills and coordination that pits corporate teams of three bikers and one pedestrian in a timed relay event. Each participant balances an egg in a spoon, held from their mouth, while negotiating an obstacle course for the coveted Boulder East Great 55th Street Egg Relay Trophy. Awards for the fastest and most spirited teams (costumes encouraged!) including complimentary lunch and ice cream.
There will be plenty of thrills and spills to enjoy, all in recognition of Walk and Bike to Work Day on Wednesday, June 24, 2009.
Register your company team this year! Challenge last year’s winner for the trophy or win an award.
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Tuesday, May 13th
3:30- 5 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, Grand Assembly room Please RSVP Ride your bike or take the new HOP 2 Chautauqua This year's Walk & Bike Month ice cream social will kick- off a month of events. We will also be jump-starting a summer pilot . . .the FREE HOP 2 Chautauqua transit service starting on Saturday, May 10. | |||
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 June 25, 2008 |
Join the Pack!  Bike to Work Day 2008 Mark you calendar for the region's pedal-pumping, money- saving, green commuting event. Join the Bike to Work Day Business Challenge and earn your company great prizes:
Check out the Bike to Work Day Web site for more goodies such as ordering t-shirts, view breakfast station maps, refer friends who've never participated before, learn great tips for safe biking and find resources for route planning, volunteer to lend a hand and much more. | |||
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Start getting your team ready for the Eighth Annual Egg-less Relay! This fun, non-competitive event brings together hundreds of employees from various companies in this contest of willpower and coordination that challenges corporate teams of three bikers and one pedestrian in a timed relay event. Each participant balances an egg in a spoon, held from their mouth, while negotiating an obstacle course for the coveted Great 55th Street Egg Relay Trophy (currently held by last year winner: Unitime Systems) all for Bike to Work Day. Costumes encouraged. Includes lunch.
Wednesday, June 25, 2007 (Bike to Work Day)
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Walk & Bike MONTH in Boulder adds new Event!
As part of Boulder's Walk & Bike Month, June 13 has been declared Park(ing) Space Day. To celebrate, take over a parking space from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (or all day). What can you do with 8 by 17 feet of concrete? Run a bike repair station. Offer an exercise class. Better yet, chair massages! If you tend toward the fanciful, move in a ping-pong table, croquet game (you'll need some sod), or a hopscotch board. Or create an oasis with Astro turf, patio furniture, potted palms and free lemonade. What's the point? Park(ing) Spaces raise awareness of the trade-off between space for cars vs. space for humans. If we reduce our dependence on parking spaces, how could we permanently reclaim them? More housing or outdoor dining, more trees and more water - paved parking lots generate excess water that goes directly to storm drains instead of remaining in the soil. If you want to create a Park(ing) Space, support or utilize one - contact Walk & Bike Month Coordinator Sue Prant at 303-564-968 or e- mail. | |||
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In addition to the almost 30 breakfast stations all over town on Bike to Work Day (June 25th) and the Bike to Work Day Commuter Challenge, there is a number of other events planned all month. These events include organized walks, bike rides, neighborhood events, mountain bike events, a bike film festival, concerts, bike tune-ups and maintenance classes, and bike rodeos for kids. The very popular Walk & Bike Month BINGO game, where people will walk or bike to area merchants, get their BINGO card stamped and enter to win prizes will also be featured. | ||||
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RTD is now accepting Eco Passes for its Rockies Ride (and, starting in the fall, The Bronco Ride.) No road rage, no parking hassles! In Boulder, you can catch the Rockies Ride at Boulder High School and the Table Mesa Park and Ride. Go to RTD-Denver.com for more information. | |||
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As of April 2008, over 150 companies in Boulder and 1165 employers in the Downtown Boulder Business and Central Area General Improvement districts are eligible to receive an Eco Pass.
Check out the Company Master List to see if your company has already signed up for the Eco Pass Program. Learn more and find out find out if your company is in either the Downtown Central Area General Improvement District or the Business Improvement District, which also makes you eligible to receive an Eco Pass. Boulder also has 32 neighborhoods that have signed up for the Neighborhood Eco Pass (NECO) Program. Is your company in our east Boulder district? If so, Boulder East can provide a reimbursement for your Eco Pass for companies who haven't received our reimbursement before. E-mail for more information. | ||||
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The city Boulder will return to its roots this summer by offering free transit service to passengers traveling between downtown Boulder and Chautauqua Park. The "HOP 2 Chautauqua" will use HOP buses as a part of a three month pilot service. The service will run every 15 minutes, seven-days-a-week, from noon to 10 p.m. beginning May 10 through August 24, with extended hours and service to the Williams Village east parking lot on Chautauqua concert nights. The route circles downtown and runs along 9th Street and Baseline Road, and will include major stops at Pearl and 13th streets and the 27th Way park-n-Ride.
"This service restores the tradition of offering our community and visitors easy access to Chautauqua events, concerts and recreation," explains Cris Jones, GO Boulder transportation planner. The free 'HOP 2 Chautauqua' allows people to enjoy their experience without the hassle of parking and congestion. Our goal is to provide service to 500 riders each day, bringing more people and fewer cars to the park." "HOP 2 Chautauqua" funding is provided through a partnership of GO Boulder/city of Boulder, Colorado Chautauqua Association, Colorado Music Festival, Downtown and University Hill Management Division/Parking Services, Downtown Boulder, Inc., and the Boulder Convention and Visitor's Bureau. For more information or for residents or organizations interested in sponsoring or promoting this service, contact Cris Jones at 303-441-3217 or e-mail or visit www.GOBoulder.net. Dogs are welcome on bus route to Chautauqua too! | |||
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The city of Boulder's ClimateSmart campaign is partnering with GO Boulder to provide Boulder businesses the tools they need to become sustainable. ClimateSmart at Work provides you with the framework to reduce your corporate carbon footprint and save money by going green. Whether you are looking for easy, meaningful first steps to becoming green or want to implement sophisticated carbon footprint reduction practices, you will benefit from the free assistance the ClimateSmart at Work program offers.
Some of the strategies will take administrative changes to your work space, others depend on your employees to make small changes in the way they use resources. We provide in-house workshops for your employees, free energy and commute trip assessments and will help you identify the best actions for your business to take. The areas of focus are energy efficiency, waste reduction, water conservation, commute trip consultation and green fleets. People in Boulder and Boulder County are already seeking businesses that share their sustainable, climate- conscious philosophy. As you begin implementing carbon footprint reducing strategies we will recognize you as a ClimateSmart Business. We're building value behind the ClimateSmart brand by recognizing ClimateSmart households and neighborhoods in Boulder. If you are already a PACE certified business, you can add the ClimateSmart Business recognition to your list of accolades. You decide which green goals you want to focus on and ClimateSmart staff will help you turn them from ideas to reality. Contact: Andrew Bascue at 303-441-1847 or e-mail. | |||
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March 2008
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Join us for breakfast on April 10 at 7:30 a.m.
Save the Date to Join Boulder East and GO Boulder for breakfast. Thursday, April 10 7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Boulder County Clerk & Recorder Houston Room 1750 33rd Street, Boulder Free breakfast with a free RTD transit pass Please RSVP Take the JUMP or ride your bike!  • Metro Denver Telework Event The Telework Coalition, Inc., TeleTech, and the Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) invite you to attend the first in a series of regional symposia designed to promote understanding and adoption of distributed work/telework by private and public organizations. Tuesday, March 25
8:00 am - Noon (registration beginning at 7:15 am) Corporate Headquarters of TeleTech Holdings, Inc. 9197 S. Peoria St Englewood, CO 80112 Continental breakfast included •Why Distributed Work and Why Now? What's happening to encourage Telework on a state and federal level - Presented by TelCoa president and CEO, Chuck Wilsker | ||||
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Bike to Work Day 2008 Save the date for Bike to Work Day 2008. Mark your calendar today for the region's pedal-pumping, money- saving, green commuting event.
Wednesday, June 25, 2007 (Bike to Work Day) 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 5775 Flatiron Pkwy, located just east of 55th Street  | ||||
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Walk & Bike MONTH in Boulder adds new Event! In addition to the almost 30 breakfast stations all over town on Bike to Work Day (June 25th) and the Bike to Work Day Commuter Challenge, there is a number of other events planned all month. These events include organized walks, bike rides, neighborhood events, mountain bike events, a bike film festival, concerts, bike tune-ups and maintenance classes, and bike rodeos for kids. The very popular Walk & Bike Month BINGO game, where people will walk or bike to area merchants, get their BINGO card stamped and enter to win prizes will also be featured. New this year is a great event called the "Parking Parks Day" held on Friday, June 13th. We are asking businesses in EAST BOULDER to transform just one space in your parking lot to a "park" or a place for people to eat lunch, play, relax, or do anything other than store a car. Benefits of participating: -We will help you brainstorm park ideas and give you a sign to mark your park. -Your business "park" will be featured on a playing card, and just like BINGO, people will ride around to the various "Parking Parks", have their card stamped, and then turn in their card for a prize. -Your business will be featured on the Walk & Bike Month Web site for this program and in at least one of our Walk & Bike Month ads in the Daily Camera. We expect this to get a lot of local and even national press coverage. To get an idea of what this looks like, you can watch this great, short film that shows how it was done in NYC: http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/parking-day-2007- nyc/ Please let us know if you are interested in participating. The more "Parking Parks" we have, the better and the more attention Boulder will get! Please contact Sue Prant at 303-564-9681 or e-mail | ||||
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 Helping coworkers curb their car..by Ellen Orleans Whether you are a seasoned ETC or a recently drafted one, try these suggestions for helping your coworkers curb their cars. Keep Transit Info on Hand Find out what buses serve your workplace, then set aside an area on your front desk or break room for bus maps and RTD schedules. A simple Lucite holder keeps materials orderly and easy to use. In addition to comprehensive maps, GO Boulder produces specific maps for our most popular routes. Tell us what you need and we will get that to you. Remind coworkers that busing even once a month puts a dent into traffic congestion. Make Ride Sharing Visible Boulder employees who live outside of town are great candidates for carpooling. Whether you use a computer program or a basic sign up sheet to connect potential poolers, ride sharing not only saves money and frees up parking, but can boost employee efficiency and morale. How? When employees ride together, they learn from each other and gain a better understanding of the company's bigger picture. By boosting empathy, carpooling encourages cooperation among such diverse callings as accounting, programming, service, and (gasp) marketing. Encourage your fellow employees to try carpooling once a week. Small steps add up. Tomorrow, Don't Drive to Work Alone At All Poor Telework, the most misunderstood of all trip reduction programs. Just like busing and carpooling, telework does not have to be full time. In fact, the beauty of telework is its flexibility. If your coworkers use email, write evaluations, or enter data, they are prime candidates for parttime telework. Can your company implement either of these telework programs? Rush Hour Telework What would you rather do during morning rush hour? Sit in traffic contributing to CO2 emissions, or read work email at your kitchen table while savoring a second cup of coffee? Rush hour telework saves time and reduces tension by circumventing the hours when driving is least efficient. Snow Day Telework Big storm in the forecast? Smart companies play it safe by sending employees home early. Fewer work hours are lost when employees can work at home, reviewing professional literature, drafting budgets, or clearing out that overstuffed email inboxes. Encourage your HR and IT departments to make it easy for employees to log on from home. It's a benefit that costs little and helps attract a stronger workforce. | ||||
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GO Boulder announces "12th Annual Commuter of the Year Contest" GO Boulder/city of Boulder is in search of nominees for its "12th Annual Commuter of the Year Contest." Three people who have chosen to leave their cars behind and commute by bike, bus or some combination of biking, walking and using transit will be honored as the 2008 "Commuters of the Year." The deadline for residents to nominate themselves or someone they know is Friday, March 21. Winners will be notified by Friday, March 28. Nominees can either live or work in Boulder and can be employees, residents or students of any age. The three categories for which nominations will be accepted include: • Bike Commuter of the Year •Transit Commuter of the Year • All Around Commuter of the Year Winners will be featured on GO Boulder's official Walk and Bike Month Web page and will serve as "Commuter of the Year" spokespeople. To qualify, the nominees should have a story that will motivate others to consider their transportation choices. To make a nomination, visit www.GOBoulder.net and complete the online form, or contact Andrea Robbins, GO Boulder, at robbinsa@bouldercolorado.gov. | ||||
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You and your family can now receive 25% off bicycle rental at University Bicycles just by flashing your Eco Pass eXtra sticker. | ||||
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Boulder East's April 10 TMO meeting