form a green team

Most people who complete the Green Team workbook save between 10-30 percent in each of the resource areas targeted by the program. They often realize significant monetary savings on bills, transportation costs, and through new purchasing habits.

Connect With Your Neighbors

If you enjoy learning about environmentally-friendly actions and want to connect with others who share the same goals, consider forming a Denver-area Green Team.

It's a lot easier and much more fun to change your habits with the support of a group where you can share ideas and receive positive feedback on your actions.

This Denver affiliate of a national program helps participants make changes within their own households and neighborhoods by working on common goals with other action-oriented people who are concerned about the impact of their consumption habits on the environment.

Each Green Team is comprised of 6-8 people who meet every other week for 12 weeks. The most effective Green Teams are formed by groups of friends, neighbors, co-workers, students or parishioners who know each other. Meetings typically last about one and a half hours, and are often held at lunch or in the evenings.

Each group begins by meeting with a trained coach who describes the program, orients the team to the workbook, and organizes the schedule. At each subsequent meeting, a team member leads a group discussion about one of the program's resource areas (solid waste, water usage, household chemicals, energy usage, transportation, and community action).

Then, each team member chooses the actions he or she plans to take before the next meeting. Participants are asked to audit and record their consumption and conservation habits, and report back to the group on what they have accomplished.

At the conclusion of the program, participants receive statistical information showing the financial and natural resource savings they have made individually and as a team. Following a "train-the-trainer" model, interested participants can then go on to coach future teams and bring additional friends, neighbors and colleagues together to form new teams throughout the community.

Sign up online to start or join a Green Team group.

Self Study Option

If you are unable to participate in a Green Team near you, explore the program's workbook and work through the steps on your own time.

• Denver Green Team Workbook -- Introduction (618K PDF)
• Denver Green Team Workbook -- Chapter 1: Waste (783K PDF)
• Denver Green Team Workbook -- Chapter 2: Water (2,269K PDF)
• Denver Green Team Workbook -- Chapter 3: Energy (1,877K PDF)
• Denver Green Team Workbook -- Chapter 4: Chemicals (1,568K PDF)
• Denver Green Team Workbook -- Chapter 5: Transport (1,310K PDF)
• Denver Green Team Workbook -- Chapter 6: Community (731K PDF)
• Denver Green Team Workbook -- Entire Workbook (7,005K PDF)

IN-DEPTH:

• Learn more about the national Green Team Project.

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