Cane Run Watershed Festival

 

Cane Run Watershed Festival 

Saturday September 16th
11am -3pm
Castlewood Park
201 Castlewood Drive, Lexington

 A place to learn about our local water quality while having fun!

Free food for the first 200 people
Music and entertainment
Educational exhibits
Kids’ Activities
Green Living Workshops
Giveaways
 
 
 

Green Living Workshops

12pm

  • Bicycle Maintenance for Everyone — Bicycle Face
  • Water Quality in my Neighborhood — Third Rock Consultants

1pm

  • Planting and Maintaining Rain Gardens — Bluegrass Greensource
  • Urban Tree Health and Care — Urban Forest Initiative
  • Using Neighborhood Community Gardens — Seedleaf

2pm

  • What is a Watershed? — Bluegrass Greensource
  • Keeping your Landscape Green and “Green” — University of Kentucky Horticulture

Activities

  • LFUCG Fire Truck
  • Mounted Police
  • Recycling Truck
  • Kids’ Activities
    • The Arboretum
    • Art on the Move
    • Bluegrass Greensource
    • Wild Birds Unlimited

Local Exhibitors

  • America In Bloom
  • Bluegrass Greensource
  • Fayette Alliance
  • Glean KY
  • Keep Lexington Beautiful
  • Kentucky American Water
  • Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition
  • LFUCG Environmental Commission
  • Live Green Lexington
  • Music Works
  • NoLiCDC
  • Seedleaf
  • Third Rock Consultants
  • University of Kentucky
  • UK Horticulture

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Keep the Bluegrass Beautiful

 By: Ashley Bryant Cheney, Volunteer Coordinator, Bluegrass Greensource 

Bluegrass Greensource is expanding its litter abatement efforts throughout the Bluegrass Region. As part of our litter abatement outreach we are applying to Keep American Beautiful for a regional affiliation called Keep the Bluegrass Beautiful (KBB).  KBB will allow each participating county to access the vast network and resources that are offered by Keep America Beautiful, and to network and join forces with other cities and counties in Central Kentucky to further our mission.

With the creation of Keep the Bluegrass Beautiful, we hope to reduce litter through education and beautification efforts throughout the region.  Through this regional partnership, volunteers will be able to access resources to improve their neighborhoods and communities. Bluegrass Greensource will also be able to share data from regional research, as well as tap into additional resources such as grants and programmatic resources available through Keep America Beautiful.

“Keep America Beautiful is the nation’s premier community improvement organization. Founded in 1953, the nonprofit has a network of affiliates around the U.S. focused on litter prevention, waste reduction, and beautification. Keep America Beautiful is recognized as the leader in changing attitudes and behaviors affecting our community environments. Through its actions, Keep America Beautiful helps create communities that are socially connected, environmentally healthy, and economically sound.”  For more about Keep America Beautiful information, visit www.kab.org.

For more information about Keep the Bluegrass Beautiful or to join our efforts, please contact Ashley Bryant Cheney, Volunteer Coordinator, at Ashley@BgGreensource.org.

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Energy Education – Kentucky Energy for Youth

 By: Pattie Stivender, Education Coordinator, Bluegrass Greensource 

Bluegrass Greensource educators are energizing students across Central Kentucky as we start our annual classroom energy education program.  Our educators work closely with teachers to provide lessons that align with Kentucky Academic Standards and are engaging for students.  We continue to offer classroom activities that focus on Kentucky’s energy source, renewable energy resources, energy audits, and additional energy lessons.  However, this year has some exciting changes!

Our educators are working with 12 Kentucky Energy for Youth (KEY) Teams to provide more intensive energy education at the elementary level.  These teams will act as energy ambassadors for their schools and will have the opportunity to travel to Eastern Kentucky to learn about coal mining and its history.  Students will then plan an energy assembly to share what they’ve learned with the entire fourth and fifth grades at their school.

Although we have targeted only 12 schools for the KEY program we still have availability for classroom energy education for other schools. If you are interested in learning more about this program, please contact Pattie Stivender (pattie@bggreensource.org) for more information. 

What are teachers saying about our energy program?

“The energy program offered through Bluegrass Greensource has provided effective support to our science content. They add to the classroom additional information and resources to make learning memorable”

– Britney Spicer, 4th grade Science Teacher at Westbridge Elementary School

How do our educators feel about this program?

“What I love most about our energy education program is the way that we engage the students in their learning. By getting the students up and moving, we focus on full-body learning and we make sure no student is left out. We give students unique challenges and aid them as they struggle to find the best solutions. Whether they are acting out the flow of energy all the way from the sun to our light bulbs or trying to find the best way to design a blade so that their wind turbine generates the most electricity, students are having fun and learning a lesson that they certainly won’t forget.” 

-Danny Woolums, Environmental Educator for Bluegrass Greensource

*Kentucky Energy for Youth Teams are funded by the Department for Energy Development and Independence. 

*Additional classroom energy education provided by Toyota.

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