Get involved! Clean it up! Pick it up! Cultivate it and watch it grow up! Main Street Takoma is a volunteer-driven organization, so grab your garden tools and come on out to Main Street Takoma's Fall Clean Up Day on Saturday, October 20, from 9 A.M. to 12 noon (Rain date: November 3). Gathering points are at Laurel Avenue by the clock tower, Morrison Park at Takoma Junction, and Triangle Park, at 4th Street, NW, in the District. And don’t forget - middle and high school students can earn community service hours for their Montgomery County Public School graduation requirement. For more up-to-the-minute information about Clean Up Day, please write us: designcommittee@mainstreettakoma.org.

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For more than 40 years, efforts to help businesses go green have focused primarily on the corporate giants, but there are exponentially greater benefits to transforming the millions of traditional small businesses on Main Streets around the country. In his article Small Business, Big Benefits by Kevin Fletcher, The Executive Director of Audubon International, he brings home points about how we ALL stand to gain in protecting the planet by having our small businesses have Green practices, from using less energy to using bio-friendly cleaning agents etc.

If we all do our part, both businesses and consumers alike, think what a difference we could make in our community!

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