We Beautify
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For more than 30 years, Keep Houston Beautiful has been making our city shine. From helping neighborhoods organize cleanups to our nationally recognized Clean Neighborhoods program that is the foundation of neighborhood oriented government, we are always at the forefront of beautification and urban transformation.
There are a number of ways that we can work with you, your neighbors, your civic organization, your community association, your church or any other group. The first step is training on how to organize and conduct a cleanup. We have step-by-step procedures for you to follow and forms to guide you along. For ideas and models, Keep Houston Beautiful has created a Clean Neighborhoods Handbook or you can visit the Keep America Beautiful website for their Toolbox for Community Change.
We also maintain a warehouse filled with the kinds of tools you'll need for a cleanup. There is a form you can download with all the instructions about how to reserve tools and supplies, when and where to pick them up and where to return them. Please remember that there is not an unlimited supply, and the sooner you arrive to pick up your items, the greater the chance there will still be some.
Download the warehouse forms. CLICK HERE.
Donations of plants, flowers, trees, mulch, and other beautification items are graciously accepted.
There are a number of ways that we can work with you, your neighbors, your civic organization, your community association, your church or any other group. The first step is training on how to organize and conduct a cleanup. We have step-by-step procedures for you to follow and forms to guide you along. For ideas and models, Keep Houston Beautiful has created a Clean Neighborhoods Handbook or you can visit the Keep America Beautiful website for their Toolbox for Community Change.
We also maintain a warehouse filled with the kinds of tools you'll need for a cleanup. There is a form you can download with all the instructions about how to reserve tools and supplies, when and where to pick them up and where to return them. Please remember that there is not an unlimited supply, and the sooner you arrive to pick up your items, the greater the chance there will still be some.
Download the warehouse forms. CLICK HERE.
Donations of plants, flowers, trees, mulch, and other beautification items are graciously accepted.
We Clean
Clean Neighborhoods is a comprehensive, neighborhood oriented government strategy to combat existing litter, graffiti, and illegal dumping in selected neighborhoods and heavily traveled transportation corridors. To prevent the recurrence of these blights, the program focuses on enforcement, education and community improvement and beautification projects utilizing the valuable input and participation of area residents, businesses and civic groups.
The Clean Neighborhoods Program relies on Keep Houston Beautiful's effective system for organizing communities and helping residents to work with city government to control environmental blight in their neighborhoods. Seven key elements are essential to the effort: community organization, training of community leaders, assessment of litter/solid waste problem, community improvement projects such as cleanups and beautification efforts, anti-litter/illegal dumping enforcement programs, communications, and access to the City's Task Force so that residents have a "one-stop" coordinated response by several City departments.
If you would like to learn more about the weekend cleanup program or need additional information and registration forms, please e-mail us at: rbeaty@houstonbeautiful.org
The Clean Neighborhoods Program relies on Keep Houston Beautiful's effective system for organizing communities and helping residents to work with city government to control environmental blight in their neighborhoods. Seven key elements are essential to the effort: community organization, training of community leaders, assessment of litter/solid waste problem, community improvement projects such as cleanups and beautification efforts, anti-litter/illegal dumping enforcement programs, communications, and access to the City's Task Force so that residents have a "one-stop" coordinated response by several City departments.
If you would like to learn more about the weekend cleanup program or need additional information and registration forms, please e-mail us at: rbeaty@houstonbeautiful.org
Keep Houston Beautiful Day
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Keep Houston Beautiful Day is held annually as part of the Great American Cleanup on the first Saturday in April. To organize an event in your neighborhood check out our helpful coordinator materials and register for free cleanup supplies at www.houstonbeautiful.org. Help keep Houston clean and green, volunteer today!
Don't Mess with Texas has been educating Texans about litter prevention since 1986. TxDOT‘s litter prevention program includes Adopt-a-Highway and a grassroots partnership with Keep Texas Beautiful. For more information, visit www.txdot.gov.
Keep Houston Beautiful (KHB) has held an annual cleanup day in partnership with the Mayor of Houston and City Council for 30 consecutive years.
Waterway Cleanup Program
Looking for a fun way to improve your community environment? Organize a cleanup event to improve and maintain the quality of surface water. When you register your event with Keep Houston Beautiful, we will help your cleanup with free supplies, such as garbage bags, litter-grabbers, gloves, volunteer giveaway items and much more to any Texan interested in protecting our local waterways. The program, a partnership between Keep Texas Beautiful and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, helps support the cleanup of lakes, rivers, creeks, ponds, wetlands and other inland, freshwater areas. Sign-up your group with Keep Texas Beautiful.
Adopt-A-Ditch
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Adopt-A-Ditch is an expansion of the successful Adopt-A-Block program that is a partnership between the City of Houston, Keep Houston Beautiful, local merchants, volunteers and residents. The goal of the effort is raise quality of life by transforming the adopted areas into cleaner, more environmentally pleasant places to live and work.
Many of complains and problems associated with ditches are from litters, illegal dumping, weeds, excessive sediments and collection of nuisance water.Open ditches have capacity to carry storm water but added benefits are for storm water detention, ground water recharge and improvement of storm water quality.
Providing certain landscape character, ditches can become landscape feature, linear park space, habitat for birds and butterflies, and a real asset for neighborhoods.
If you are interested in improving the aesthetic look of a ditch in your community, please call Keep Houston Beautiful at 713-839-8855.
Visit the City of Houston's Storm Water Maintenance Branch.
Many of complains and problems associated with ditches are from litters, illegal dumping, weeds, excessive sediments and collection of nuisance water.Open ditches have capacity to carry storm water but added benefits are for storm water detention, ground water recharge and improvement of storm water quality.
Providing certain landscape character, ditches can become landscape feature, linear park space, habitat for birds and butterflies, and a real asset for neighborhoods.
If you are interested in improving the aesthetic look of a ditch in your community, please call Keep Houston Beautiful at 713-839-8855.
Visit the City of Houston's Storm Water Maintenance Branch.
Adopt-An-Esplanade
The city of Houston has a total of 2,240 acres of esplanades. Residents are ready and willing to adopt these areas. You can also take on the beautification of an esplanade near your community, your church or school. There is a very specific procedure for taking on such a project. The ideas for making a difference are limitless. Through a grant from the Texas Forest Service, Keep Houston Beautiful in partnership with the Houston Parks and Recreation Department has published a new user-friendly Adopt-An-Esplanade Guide. The Guide includes simple easy to follow instructions including a unique flowchart to lead residents through the procedure efficiently. Adopt-An-Esplanade Guide.
For additional information, contact:
Marilu De La Fuente, Adopt-An-Esplanade Coordinator
marilu.delafuente@houstontx.gov
832-395-7029
For additional information, contact:
Marilu De La Fuente, Adopt-An-Esplanade Coordinator
marilu.delafuente@houstontx.gov
832-395-7029
Adopt-A-Stop
As a volunteer of METRO’s Adopt-a-Stop and Adopt-a-Shelter programs, you have the power to help keep your community safe and clean.
Trash bags will be provided at a particular bus stop or shelter at the request of the individual sponsor or organization. In return, participants of the Adopt-a-Stop or Adopt-a-Shelter program volunteer to pick-up litter in the area between METRO’s trash collections, and have the option to make general improvements to the grounds around the stop or shelter.
As a volunteer you or your organization will receive $10 in METRO money per month.
Volunteer to Adopt-a-Stop or Adopt-a-Shelter today by calling 713-658-0180.
Trash bags will be provided at a particular bus stop or shelter at the request of the individual sponsor or organization. In return, participants of the Adopt-a-Stop or Adopt-a-Shelter program volunteer to pick-up litter in the area between METRO’s trash collections, and have the option to make general improvements to the grounds around the stop or shelter.
As a volunteer you or your organization will receive $10 in METRO money per month.
Volunteer to Adopt-a-Stop or Adopt-a-Shelter today by calling 713-658-0180.
Earth Quilts
Do you remember Jack and those mighty beans that grew really wild overnight into an awesome beanstalk? Jacks magic beanstalk was the easiest, most rewarding planting project ever! There was no cultivating, no watering, no fertilizing - just a handful of beans tossed on the ground.
Earth Quilts 101 contains no magic beans - just simple and fun gardening activities for children an adults to share. Even little kids can learn to plant and care for their own gardens. They will need a small space, some big, quick-growing seeds, and an adult loaded with patience and persistence. Most experts agree that age four is the perfect time to begin gardening and the younger the child, the smaller the garden should be. They suggest beginning with two square feet and expanding a foot each year.
Earth Quilts 101 is a nine-session gardening activity guide featuring The Earth Quilt Crew: Sage, The Wise Old Earth Quilter; Honey, The Busiest Bee; Rosemary, The Flighty Lady Bug; and Basil, The Most Proper Praying Mantis.The first session is a Sewing Bee. The following eight sessions are Sowing Bees. 'Bee Keepers' are the adults who organize and lead the children gathered for a 'Bee.'When kids complete a 'Bee,' they may color a corresponding patch on their Earth Quilts 101 certificate. (Please make as many copies of the Certificate as you wish.) When all nine patches are colored, the certificate designates the child as an official 'Keep Houston Beautiful Earth Quilter.'
Earth Quilt Instructions.
Earth Quilts 101 contains no magic beans - just simple and fun gardening activities for children an adults to share. Even little kids can learn to plant and care for their own gardens. They will need a small space, some big, quick-growing seeds, and an adult loaded with patience and persistence. Most experts agree that age four is the perfect time to begin gardening and the younger the child, the smaller the garden should be. They suggest beginning with two square feet and expanding a foot each year.
Earth Quilts 101 is a nine-session gardening activity guide featuring The Earth Quilt Crew: Sage, The Wise Old Earth Quilter; Honey, The Busiest Bee; Rosemary, The Flighty Lady Bug; and Basil, The Most Proper Praying Mantis.The first session is a Sewing Bee. The following eight sessions are Sowing Bees. 'Bee Keepers' are the adults who organize and lead the children gathered for a 'Bee.'When kids complete a 'Bee,' they may color a corresponding patch on their Earth Quilts 101 certificate. (Please make as many copies of the Certificate as you wish.) When all nine patches are colored, the certificate designates the child as an official 'Keep Houston Beautiful Earth Quilter.'
Earth Quilt Instructions.
Edible Community Gardens
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With contributions from Scott's Miracle Gro, Keep Houston Beautiful was able to pass through financial and in-kind contributions to the Westbury Civic Association, Provision School, Sunnyside Multi-Service Center and 611 Walker to help establish community gardens this Spring.
With the initial support from Scott's Miracle Gro and Keep Houston Beautiful the gardens have continued to thrive and expand.
The Westbury garden has a new pavilion. Provision School has added a beehive. The Sunnyside Multi-Service center has added a fruit orchard and 611 Walker's downtown container garden volunteers just recently had a cooking demonstration.
If you would like to know more contact, Keep Houston Beautiful 713-839-8855.
With the initial support from Scott's Miracle Gro and Keep Houston Beautiful the gardens have continued to thrive and expand.
The Westbury garden has a new pavilion. Provision School has added a beehive. The Sunnyside Multi-Service center has added a fruit orchard and 611 Walker's downtown container garden volunteers just recently had a cooking demonstration.
If you would like to know more contact, Keep Houston Beautiful 713-839-8855.
Mural Projects
Targets of graffiti are being transformed into community enhancing public art and educational initiatives by harnessing the creative energy and talent of neighborhood youth through the Graffiti Hurts
Mural Project. In collaboration with the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County's (CACHH) Civic Art and Design Program, the Keep Houston Beautiful's Clean Neighborhoods Program is sponsoring the creation of murals by youth groups under the guidance of a professional artist.
Mural Project. In collaboration with the Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County's (CACHH) Civic Art and Design Program, the Keep Houston Beautiful's Clean Neighborhoods Program is sponsoring the creation of murals by youth groups under the guidance of a professional artist.
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