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Thanks to Michigan Energy Options and Riverfront Cycles for donating bikes for all participants in GET City’s 2010 summer program.  The theme was “Complete Streets” and this gift will give GET Citians a chance to practice alternative energy! We even made the local news- check it out below.

Jazzy, Chantalice and Camryn visited their school, Pleasant View Elementary, in search of incandescent bulbs that could be replaced with with CFLs. In this video, they explain why that’s important. It also looks like a lot of fun!

Bianca & Theresa rap about coal In this video rap, we tell you the story of coal: how it is harvested and its impact on the environment. This is important because many electricity plants use coal to make electricity.

Aaron and Nick show Daryll the video wall at repoweramerica.org Aaron Quinney and Nick Clark, Mid-Michigan reps for Repower America, came by the club to visit with GET City today. Nick and Aaron talked to the club about how we all have tools and resources to solve the climate crisis, by using less energy, using …

Jessalyn and Chontealice show off their progress in changing incadescent bulbs for CFLs. They’re also measuring energy saved and carbon dioxide emissions eliminated. Did you know that incandescent light bulbs use five times as much energy as compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), causing more coal to be burned and more carbon to be emitted into …

Theresa and friends rap on light bulbs and coal plants coal rap This semester we are investigating the new energy initiative called “Change a Light, Change Michigan!” The main thrust of this initiative is to get people to change out of their incandescent light bulbs for CFLs or Compact Fluorescent Lamps. We are figuring out …

This Fall, GET City welcomes 9 returning members, and 18 new members.  Welcome to Alixandria, Autumn, Bianca, Brittney, Chontealice, DaiVion, Darion, Daryl, Deazja, Derrick, Deveontage, Kenyarta, Kenyartta, Laquisha, LeD’Jiin,  Rayray, Tenaya, and Theresa !!

The energy efficient roof was unveiled Tuesday, October 14 at a noontime press conference.

A new video on the GET City project, along with five other ITEST projects across the US, was produced by WGBH in Boston. You can watch the GET City video below, and videos of the other featured projects are available from the ITEST Learning Resource Center. [flowplayer src=’http://www.getcity.org//wp-content/uploads/2011/05/ITEST.m4v’ height=360 width=640 splash=’http://www.getcity.org//wp-content/uploads/2011/05/itest.jpg’ autoplay=false]