Saturday, April 25, 2015 – 9 a.m. to noon in Forman Park and along University Avenue and East Genesee Street

The Connective Corridor is encouraging faculty, students and community members to join us this Saturday as part of OCRRA’s Earth Day Cleanup to help beautify the Connective Corridor.

Last year, 5,500 people volunteered for OCCRA’s community-wide Earth Day and cleared winter debris from roadsides and public spaces – cleaning up more than 99,000 pounds of trash.  The project is a great way to help keep our community’s streets and green spaces looking beautiful. This year, the Connective Corridor and the Syracuse & CNY Police Retirees Association are joining forces for an Earth Week cleanup Saturday, April 25 with a special focus on University Avenue and East Genesee Street.  The groups are inviting the campus community to pitch in, and come out to help.

The Connective Corridor invites volunteers to help out in Forman Park from 9 a.m. to noon to open the park for the spring season.  Campus members and local property owners are also encouraged to clean up litter that day in front of their buildings along the University Avenue and East Genesee Street district of the Connective Corridor.  It’s a wonderful way to help keep the area beautiful, especially with graduation season upon us and so many families from around the world visiting for commencement and as part of the SU admissions process.

Volunteers are encouraged to post photos on OCRRA’s Facebook page and share them on the Connective Corridor Facebook page to recognize your good work.

The project supports the Connective Corridor’s commitment to sustainability.  With one of the largest networks of green infrastructure of any community of our size in the country, the Connective Corridor is considered a model by the U.S. EPA and has won the U.S. Green Building Council’s Global Community Leadership Award.  The Corridor’s green infrastructure – a partnership with Onondaga County’s Save the Rain program – is harvesting and managing 26 million gallons of water and stormwater runoff annually.  The Corridor’s green bike lanes, complete streetscapes and free buses are helping make Syracuse a more pedestrian, bike and public transit-friendly city, advancing sustainability.

The Connective Corridor and our partners – the City of Syracuse, Onondaga County and volunteers from area businesses, nonprofit organizations and residents – encourage the SU community to pitch in this weekend for our Earth Day cleanup.

Learn more at https://connectivecorridor.syr.edu/