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Ami Voeltz
Green and Sustainable Living Educator
Do It Green! Minnesota
ami@doitgreen.org
- Blue Sky Guide: Local Coupons + Ideas for Living Well in the Twin Cities
Blue Sky Guide is a one-of-a-kind resource - a coupon book, directory and a source of ideas and inspiration. It's your annual EcoMetro guide to living well and having fun in the Twin Cities metro region. Save hundreds of dollars while exploring the community and supporting local, sustainable businesses.
- Do It Green! Minnesota - annual 2009 Do It Green! Magazine now available
Do It Green! Minnesota works to educate Minnesotans about green and sustainable living and to promote building healthy, local communities through an annual printed guidebook, comprehensive web site, and community workshops.
- Eco-Team Models for Sustainable Living
Using social models from the world of support groups come five programs for helping groups of people increase the chances of acting on their environmental interest and learning.
- Effective Environmental Choices
"The Consumers' Guide to Effective Environmental Choices" reveals that only 7 spending categories account for most consumer-related environmental damage. 11 meaningful, effective actions are suggested.
- Living Green Options and Newsletters
Includes a list of 10 actions a person can take, and resources for taking action.
- North House Folk School
A beautiful Grand Marais setting for learning traditional folk arts and crafts that augments a person's pursuit of a more sustainable way of living.
- Slow Food, Slow Cities
An organization has been formed for the eco-gastronomic movement to promote a good life rooted in the pleasures of place and community, connected with the earth and its fruits.
- Take Back Your Time
Resources are available about how overwork, over scheduling and time famine can impact Americans' health, families, relationships, and communities.
- Twin Cities Free Market
The Free Market is a listing service for Twin Cities residents who want to get or give free reusable goods for the home, garage and garden. It is part of an effort to reduce the amount of reusable goods being thrown away.
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Case Studies
- The power of one: What caring can accomplish One woman's love for her place leveraged a neighborhood to improve a park, strengthen community bonds, build skills and deepen roots. More info...
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| Worth noting |
| The Good Guide at http://www.goodguide.com provides a very extensive assessment of the health, environmental and social impacts of over 70,000 products used in the home. Find cleaner, greener, healthier products at this website that uses a 1-10, color-coded rating to score each product (specific brands) on dozens of attributes.
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9/11
Backyard Homesteading: Farm Tour, Potluck, and Produce Exchange
9/11
Family Fun Day on the Farm
9/11
Lake Superior Harvest Festival and Energy Fair
9/14
Contaminants, Water and Our Health: New Lessons from Wildlife
9/15
BP Oil Spill: What's it mean for Minnesota and "our" loons?
9/16
BAELN Event -- Eating Locally: opportunities, barriers and local programs
9/16
-9/17
Clean Water and Climate Adaptation Summit 2010
9/16
Overstuffed: How to enjoy more, spend less, and be kinder to the planet.
9/16
-9/17
Preserve Minnesota: 30th Annual Statewide Historic Preservation Conference
9/16
The Gleaners and I
9/18
-9/18
Free to be Green
9/19
Tour de White Bear Lake
9/21
Forest Fun For Kids: Climb, Fly, Crawl
9/23
Raingarden Workshops
9/25
Electric Vehicles: Exploring the Technology and the EV Market
9/25
First Annual Greenway Challenge
9/28
Beginner Mushroom Cultivation
9/30
Natural Beauty
10/2
Minnesota Solar Tour
10/6
-10/7
Sustainability and Behavioral Marketing in the Renewable Economy
10/8
-10/10
Make a Solar PV Module - workshop
10/9
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Photovoltaics
10/12
Fun Foods For Families
10/14
Kilowatt Ours
10/16
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Solar Water Heating
10/16
-10/17
Healthy LIFE EXPO
10/16
Snail Lake Regional Park Restoration Event
10/20
Energy Quest: Discovering a Church's Energy Use
10/21
Raising Meat on a Small Scale
10/22
Friday Film Night: "Fresh"
10/23
-10/24
Northland Bioneers Conference
10/27
Property Rights on the New Frontier: Climate Change, Natural Resource Development, and Renewable Energy
10/28
BAELN Event -- The 8th Annual Lake-Friendly Development Awards
Ongoing Events
MCAD Sustainable Design Online Courses & Related Film Series
** Additional Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Workshops
Minnesota River Calendar of Events
Twin Cities Green Drinks
EcoTuesday Minneapolis
Green Drinks of La Crosse
Locals Night at Trotter's Cafe - every Saturday night
Twin Cities Green Drinks 2010 Hosts Wanted
Green Building Practices
Green Drinks of La Crosse
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