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Green Up Day What is Green Up Support Get Involved 2011 Poster Green Up Vermont |
Vermont Businesses Making It Their Business
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Ben & Jerry's, For Green-Up Day 2011, In addition to being a corporate Sponsor, Ben & Jerry s participated by hosting a bbq lunch for our employees on Friday May 6th. During lunch we explained the history and purpose of Green Up Day, distributed trash bags to everyone, and encouraged them to spend some time cleaning up in their own neighborhoods. We had approx 40 people take trash bags home with the intention of doing some time cleaning up on Saturday. In addition, we organized a crew of 15 employees to spend an hour cleaning up the area around our offices in the South Burlington Technology Park office complex. We have 15 employees volunteer on Friday. . .. approx 40 over the weekend. Individual employees also did clean up in their own neighborhoods. What our employees have to say about Green Up Day: Everyone at Ben & Jerry's appreciates Green Up Day, and we're all happy to participate! |
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Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Lunchtime/breaktime efforts on the Friday before Green Up Day to beautify the roadways and property around our facilities. Dozens of volunteers participate. We Green Up in Montpelier from the Rte 2/Rte 302 round-about, past our offices and up Gallison Hill Road to our distribution center. In Cabot and Middlebury we Green Up our facility grounds and abutting roadways. What our employees have to say about Green Up Day: "Green Up makes me proud to be a Vermonter, and pleased that our cooperative supports this clean-up effort." Mike P. "Seeing Vermonters filling Green Up Vermont trash bags along the roadways is as sure a sign of spring as robins and peepers." Diana M. |
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Equinox Resort and Spa, On Saturday, May 7, as many employees, families, and friends as we can rally together will be helping to Green Up our community and the areas surrounding the resort. Dozens of employees participate. We clean up some of Route 7A, Union Street, and other areas close to the hotel. |
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Gifford Medical Center, Each year for the last decade, Gifford Medical Center staff members have taken time out to green up the hospital's Randolph campus and abutting roadsides. The event is held around Green Up Day. This year's event was May 9. Employees from each of the Medical Center's departments raked, picked up litter and put down fresh grass seed where needed. 40 employees participated this year. |
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Instrumart, 12 Instrumart employees participated. We divided up into 3 groups and had fun, getting outside, doing our part to help Green Up Vermont! We Greened Up on and around Green Mountain Drive- the whole of Green Mountain Drive, as well as the ravine area next to AllScripts. Also behind the Shelburne Road Shopping Center (where Talbots is located). |
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Photo coming soon | United Counseling Service, This is our 3rd Annual Corporate Green Up Day. We usually do it the Friday before Vermont Green Up Day, but this year we are doing it the Thursday prior to Vermont Green Up Day. I am proud to report we have 94 staff and clients signed up to beautify the neighborhoods in which are facilites are located. We have 15 facilites. We do Green Up around these facilities as well as many other streets in the community. In addition, because of our great turn out, we are able to do many additional streets in our communities. This year, we are sponsoring t-shirts for all who participate. I'm proud to be the coordinator of this wonderful event and proud to live in a state that cares so much about its beauty. Employees really seem to have a lot of fun getting out there. |
| Return to list of businesses. |  | Vermont Electric Power Company, On Green Up Day, every year, about 30 VELCO Associates and their families participate in a 3-4 mile stretch of road in Rutland in the neighborhood of our company Headquarters, on Pinnacle Ridge Road and Grove Street. We also have 3-5 kids from the local Mentor Connection Organization join us. We have a barbecue or a brunch afterwards for the volunteers. |
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 | VSECU, VSECU is giving each credit union employee up to two hours of company time to "Green Up Vermont." Some employees have taken advantage of this to go out individually, while others have gone out in pairs or in teams. VSECU employees have gathered the standard bottles and cans, but they also collected tires, pool toys, a child's broken tricycle and many other larger items. Invidual employees have picked up trash close to their homes, but VSECU teams have traveled to the Berlin Pond Road, Route 12 from Northfield to Montpelier, Route 12 to Elmore and Route 64 to Williamstown. One of our teams brought their kayaks to Wrightsville Dam and picked up debris along the shoreline. Thank you, Green Up Vermont, for your continued efforts to make all Vermonters more aware of keeping our state clean and green! Employee feedback: "It is always so sad to see the snow melt away in the spring to reveal such an unsightly display of styrofoam cups, beer bottles and other debris that people have tossed away onto our roads and highways. This is not the real Vermont. So, I am glad VSECU gave us an opportunity to participate in this effort to maintain our state's beauty." ~ Lynette Kemp |
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Green Up's mission is to promote the stewardship of our state's natural landscape and waterways and the livability of our communities by involving people in Green Up Day and raising public awareness about the benefits of a litter-free environment. |
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