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Your invitation to form or join a
Redwood City VERDE Team!
Working Together to Build Community
A Redwood City Verde Team in your neighborhood will help to:
- Support a student environmental club
- Bolster your school’s garden program
- Purchase an energy efficient appliance for your congregation
- Support City Trees and its urban forest volunteer program
- Build a stronger neighborhood
- Save energy, water, and money
Overview
Roles and Responsibilities
As a Redwood City Verde Team Leader you’ll bring together 8 Redwood City households to learn about energy/water conservation, and sign up for a FREE Green@Home House Call. Teams also agree to take action to help reduce energy and water use – and at the same time save money on their utility bills.
Teams that complete the House Calls and other specified actions earn a $250 incentive contribution toward community greening projects (above). As an added encouragement to get the program rolling, the first 10 teams to sign up and complete the program earn an additional $50 incentive ($300 instead of $250)! Just think of what that money could mean to your local school’s environmental program or garden project, or other qualified community greening program!
Our goal is to get the program going with 10 Teams by June 30th. So the time is NOW to become a Verde Team Leader and start bringing your neighbors together!
Teams must be comprised of Redwood City households. Incentives are contributed toward qualifying environmental programs or activities of neighborhood, community, or faith groups in Redwood City, or such programs at Redwood City School District schools, Woodside, Sequoia, and Redwood High Schools, Sandpiper Elementary School, or a private school in Redwood City.
Contact Beth Ross, Redwood City Environmental Initiatives Manager, (650) 780-5917 or bross@redwoodcity.org
Redwood City Verde Team - Roles and Responsibilities
Verde Team Leader
- Organize a team of 8 households from his/her neighborhood, community group, faith group, or other group or association.
- Convenes two team meetings with the households (at home, or the City can assist with securing a location) – a minimum of 8 people representing 8 households is required
Agenda for meeting #1 would include:
- Create a team name
- Hear overview of Green@Home house call program and purpose (by Acterra staff)
- Determine potential use of the incentive contribution
Agenda for meeting #2 would include:
- Report back on how the house calls went
- Follow up on each household’s additional Green@Home commitments to energy/water conservation
- Review of use of incentive contribution
- Overview of other Redwood City Verde opportunities for household or neighborhood action
- Team leader will receive a gift card to purchase refreshments for each team meeting.
Verde Team Member
- Attend two Verde Team meetings
- Schedule a Green@Home House Call
- Implement three additional Green@Home House Call recommendations (includes no-cost, low-cost, and investment–level actions)
Staff from Redwood City’s non-profit partner Acterra will provide your group with an overview of their Green@Home House Call program and information on other recommended energy and water saving actions, attend both meetings of your Verde Team, and track your team’s expected energy-savings from the House Calls and the recommended further actions.
Redwood City Environmental Initiatives staff will offer assistance with a team meeting location, if needed, present information about Redwood City’s Verde program at one of your team meeting, approve your selected recipient of your team’s incentive contribution, and help celebrate your team’s success.
General Steps
- Verde Team Leader contacts neighbors and schedules first Verde Team meeting
- Verde Team meeting #1 takes place – learn about and schedule a Green@Home House Call for each participating household
- Green@Home volunteers perform House Calls for Verde Team members, learn about and commit to at least three other recommended actions
- Verde Team members follow up and complete the agreed-upon additional recommended actions
- Verde Team leader confirms that each household has or is in the process of completing the additional actions, and schedules Verde Team meeting #2
- Verde Team meeting #2 takes place – discuss progress on additional actions, share ideas, Acterra records data on successful actions, incentive contribution awarded
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