Top 10 Green Campaign Ideas
For the New Year, consider starting a green campaign in your workplace, at your church, at school, or in your neighborhood. Here are some great starter ideas:
Many of these campaigns already have materials preprinted and other tools to make it easy for you to take it and run with it!
Minnesota Energy Challenge -
mnenergychallenge.org
Drive Easy Conserve -
greenslowmovingvehicle.squarespace.com
Arbor Day - (April) Tree Planting, arborday.org, mnstac.org,treetrust.org
Metro Commuter Challenge - (May—June) Bike to Work Week, metrotransit.com, sharetheroadmn.org/biketowork.html, bikewalktwincities.org, Walking Campaigns, stepstoahealthiermn.org
Storm Water Campaigns -
(Spring & Summer) cleanwatermn.org,
Rain Gardens metroblooms.org, Blue Thumb bluethumb.org, Earth Day Watershed Clean Ups
National Night Out -
(August) nationalnightout.org, mncpa.net
Eat Local America -
(Aug.–Sept.) eatlocalamerica.coop
Change a Light Change the World -
(October) energystar.gov
America Recycles Day -
(Nov 15) nrc-recycle.org/americarecycles.aspx, recycleminnesota.org, Choose to Reuse co.hennepin.mn.us
Encourage attendance at local Green Events -
Living Green Expo (May) livinggreen.org,
Eco Experience (August) pca.state.mn.us/ecoexperience,
Green Gifts Fair (Nov.) doitgreen.org
For more green living and action ideas visit
www.doitgreen.org.
The Green Goddess column is brought to you by Do It Green! Minnesota, publishers of the 2009 Do It Green! Magazine, now available at your local co-op or bookstore. Visit www.doitgreen.org.
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There was a great festival atmosphere on Jan. 8 at Seward co-op’s ribbon cutting ceremony. Hundreds poured into the doors of the bright green building, the site of the old Riverside Market, where Franklin Ave., 29th Ave and Riverside Ave. come together. Many remember the 37-year-old cooperative’s milestone move into a beautiful new building at 21st and Franklin; the new expansion is proof again of the co-op’s popularity in the community—and the value that this particular community places on GREEN.
The co-op is a center that not only sells organic and sustainable products and food, but whose entire focus is on sustainability at a local as well as global level: Fair trade is a principal buying criteria; the designers met energy conservation standards (the new building is LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified); the second floor is an education center, offering such things as community cooking classes, nutritional education, and education on cooperative structures. New hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. Check it out. |
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