Welcome to Green Options Buffalo

Green Options Buffalo (GO-Buffalo) works to create healthy, environmentally sustainable, community friendly transportation in the Greater Buffalo Region. Through advocacy, infrastructure improvements and community programs, GO-Buffalo strives to make positive impacts in our environment, community, personal health and economy by enhancing Buffalo’s quality of life attracting others here to live, work and play.

Here's the latest news from Green Options Buffalo:

House Bill Reverses Decades of Progress on Bike/Ped

January 31, 2012

Take Action!

It's so much worse than we thought.

Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives released its transportation bill, the American Energy and Infrastructure Act. You are receiving this action item because we need people to contact their representatives. Please click on the "Take Action" link to contact them.

Last week, we knew the bill would be bad news for biking and walking. But we didn’t think it would go so far as to completely cut every reference to bicycling and walking out of the federal transportation policy.

House leadership is pressing to eliminate bicycling and walking in the Transportation bill:

• Destroys Transportation Enhancements by making the program optional
• Repeals the Safe Routes to School program, reversing years of progress in creating safe ways for kids to walk and ride bicycles to school
• Allows states to build bridges without safe access for pedestrians and bicycles
• Eliminates bicycle and pedestrian coordinators in state DOTs
• Eliminates language that insures that rumble strips “do not adversely affect the safety or mobility of bicyclists, pedestrians or the disabled” 

But we can still save biking and walking in this bill. This week in the Transportation Committee, Representative Petri (R-WI) will stand up for bicycling and walking by offering an amendment that restores dedicated funding for Transportation Enhancements and Safe Routes to School.  Mr. Petri can only be successful if everyone with a stake in safe sidewalks, crosswalks, and bikeways contacts their Representative on the Transportation Committee again today to urge them to vote YES on the Petri amendment! 

This is as urgent as it gets.  Even if we do win this amendment, there will be a long road ahead.  But if we lose here, we risk losing decades of progress.

We know we are asking a lot of you and we thank you for all you’re doing to preserve biking and walking.

Drivetrain Workshop

January 31, 2012

Green Options Buffalo to Hire a Street Team Leader

January 27, 2012

Green Options Buffalo, through a shared federal grant with the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and Buffalo Carshare, is hiring a temporary, full-time Street Team Leader to facilitate a canvassing project designed to increase local employment and commuting by active transportation around the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. See the job description included here.

Street Team Leader - Job Description

Green Options Buffalo, in partnership with the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus  (BNMC) and Buffalo CarShare, is looking to hire an individual to be part of a team working on a project that is targeted to the area surrounding the BNMC and seeks to improve residents’ lives by facilitating and promoting a range of transportation options that will aid access to employment while enhancing and reducing the costs of mobility.

Goals: Determine both the general and individual transportation needs of the target population through door to door canvassing and informational meetings with residents.

Desired Skills:

• Flexibility
• Adaptability
• Ability to work well with a team
• Strong written and verbal skills
• Must be able to report effectively to management team
• Strong commitment to economic, social, racial, and environmental justice
• Must be able to work effectively under deadlines
• Proficient in word, publisher/or photoshop, excel, and database management
• Willingness to work unconventional hours

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing day to day operations of canvass, including managing 6 part time canvassers
• Train canvassers in the following
  • Effective data management and entry
  • Messaging and communication
  • Material development
• Ability to create walk sheets and turf maps daily
• Organize transportation informational meetings for contacts made through canvass
• Assisting TDM coordinator in conducting follow-up meetings and maintaining contact with neighborhood residents.

Experience:

• At least 2 years of canvassing experience
• At least 2 years of management in any capacity (preferably over a canvass)
• Must have experience working with underserved populations

Hours:

40hrs/wk, 39 weeks

Pay:

$12.75/hr

Application Deadline:

March 1, 2012

Send Resume and Cover Letter to:

Justin Booth, Green Options Buffalo
640 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, 14203
justin@greenoptionsbuffalo.org

Green Options Buffalo is a nonprofit organization working to create healthy, environmentally sustainable, community friendly transportation options in the greater Buffalo area.

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