UPDATE: Please confirm with host organizations about the status of listed events. Many in-person events have been cancelled, or there may be virtual options for some events.
See our Upcoming Events page, or check our community calendar below for upcoming green community events in Minnesota, or submit your own event!
Events in January–February 2017
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- SEED: The Untold Story Documentary Screening
SEED: The Untold Story Documentary Screening SEED: The Untold Story Documentary Screening
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January 8, 2017SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY is a feature-length documentary featuring Vandana Shiva, Dr. Jane Goodall, Andrew Kimbell, and Winona LaDuke, following passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000-year old food legacy. In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story, these reluctant heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.
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- SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY Documentary Screening
SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY Documentary Screening SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY Documentary Screening
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January 9, 2017SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY is a feature-length documentary featuring Vandana Shiva, Dr. Jane Goodall, Andrew Kimbell, and Winona LaDuke, following passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000-year old food legacy. In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story, these reluctant heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.
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- SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY Documentary Screening
SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY Documentary Screening SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY Documentary Screening
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January 10, 2017SEED: THE UNTOLD STORY is a feature-length documentary featuring Vandana Shiva, Dr. Jane Goodall, Andrew Kimbell, and Winona LaDuke, following passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000-year old food legacy. In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story, these reluctant heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.
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- Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January, Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January, Hennepin County Fix-It Clinic
Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January
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January 14, 2017Declutter your electronics in the new year! Drop unwanted e-waste at Tech Dump and get a coupon for Tech Discounts during January Salvage Saturdays. Plus, working flat screen TVs can be dumped for free through January 31st.
WHEN:
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Saturday, January 28, 2017
WHERE:
Tech Dump Saint Paul
698 Prior Avenue N,
Saint Paul, MN
55104Tech Dump Golden Valley:
825 Boone Ave North. #100,
Golden Valley, MN
55427free event
Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January
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January 14, 2017Declutter your electronics in the new year! Drop unwanted e-waste at Tech Dump and get a coupon for Tech Discounts during January Salvage Saturdays. Plus, working flat screen TVs can be dumped for free through January 31st.
WHEN:
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Saturday, January 28, 2017
WHERE:
Tech Dump Saint Paul
, 698 Prior Avenue N,
Saint Paul, MN
55104Tech Dump Golden Valley:
825 Boone Ave North. #100,
Golden Valley, MN
55427CONTACT:
Christine Weeks, 267-251-7428, christine@fieldguideinc.com
Hennepin County Fix-It Clinic Hennepin County Fix-It Clinic
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January 14, 2017Bring your broken household goods and clothing in need of repair. Please also bring any tools and supplies you think might help with the job. Events are first come, first served.
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- Native Plant Winter Sowing and Seed Exchange
Native Plant Winter Sowing and Seed Exchange Native Plant Winter Sowing and Seed Exchange
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January 17, 2017Join us for our fourth annual native plant seed exchange and winter seed sowing project. Carmen Simonet, landscape architect and native plant enthusiast will start the evening off with a presentation on growing native plants from seed.
We'll have soil, seed and the other tools needed for this project but if you have seed harvested from your garden bring some to share - please have marked with common and Latin name. Also bring containers (clean empty large size yogurt container with lid or something similar).
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- MWMO Mini Grants Info Session
MWMO Mini Grants Info Session MWMO Mini Grants Info Session
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January 18, 2017Have an idea for promoting clean water and habitat in your community? Learn how to apply for a Mini Grant from the MWMO’s Stewardship Fund. Find out more about the grant program, network with others and ask questions! Pre-applications are due on February 24, 2016.
Visit our Mini Grants page for more information.
Schedule
12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. — Grant information shared. (Coffee, tea and water will be provided.)
12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. — Get answers to your specific questions. Meet with other interested applicants
Parking
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- Zero Waste Grocery Shopping
Zero Waste Grocery Shopping Zero Waste Grocery Shopping
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January 25, 2017Reducing our use of packaging can help us save money and conserve our natural resources. Learn tips and tricks for "zero waste" shopping at the co-op.
Please preregister for all classes (including free classes) online at www.seward.coop. For assistance with registration, please visit Customer Service. Walk-ins are welcome as space allows, but Seward Co-op may cancel classes if there are fewer than three preregistered attendees. In this case, participants will be notified and given a full refund. Payment must be made at time of registration. To ensure a refund, cancellations must be made 48 hours before the class date.
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- Straw Bale Doc Showing
Straw Bale Doc Showing Straw Bale Doc Showing
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January 26, 2017Straw Bale Doc showing: Northrop on the U campus (84 Church st. SE Mpls MN 55455) in Crosby Seminar room East Side 2nd floor. Thur Jan 26 7PM doors open @ 6:30
Following the movie there will be a Q &A with Mark Morgan(Bear Paw construction) and Ramy Selim(Producer Director)and a former Straw bale home owner Jessica!
DVD's will be available for purchase for $8
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- Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January, Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January, Fix It Tech Event
Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January
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January 28, 2017Declutter your electronics in the new year! Drop unwanted e-waste at Tech Dump and get a coupon for Tech Discounts during January Salvage Saturdays. Plus, working flat screen TVs can be dumped for free through January 31st.
WHEN:
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Saturday, January 28, 2017
WHERE:
Tech Dump Saint Paul
, 698 Prior Avenue N,
Saint Paul, MN
55104Tech Dump Golden Valley:
825 Boone Ave North. #100,
Golden Valley, MN
55427CONTACT:
Christine Weeks, 267-251-7428, christine@fieldguideinc.com
Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in January
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January 28, 2017Declutter your electronics in the new year! Drop unwanted e-waste at Tech Dump and get a coupon for Tech Discounts during January Salvage Saturdays. Plus, working flat screen TVs can be dumped for free through January 31st.
WHEN:
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
Saturday, January 28, 2017
WHERE:
Tech Dump Saint Paul
698 Prior Avenue N,
Saint Paul, MN
55104Tech Dump Golden Valley:
825 Boone Ave North. #100,
Golden Valley, MN
55427free
Fix It Tech Event Fix It Tech Event
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January 28, 2017Fix-It Tech events are free community technology education events providing computer hardware repair, education and tech support in Minneapolis. Get your questions answered and your problems fixed. Bring: laptops, desktop towers, with power cords to work with volunteers to repair your device. Learn troubleshooting, get advice and help with smartphones and tablets based on capacity. First come first served.
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- B-Lectric: A Celebration of Art and Light
B-Lectric: A Celebration of Art and Light B-Lectric: A Celebration of Art and Light
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January 29, 2017Northern Lights.mn, the producers of the Northern Spark festival, sees winter as a defining key to our cultural imagination, one that must be cherished even as its existence is threatened by global climate change. For B-Lectric, Northern Lights will construct custom ice walls that at sunset will become projection screens for a variety of light-based projects. Highlights include Joshua McGarvey's Ice Fall-Feel the Change, which allows audiences to feel glaciers calving as they lean back into sound beds, and a documentary compilation by local curator Graci Horne, which will showcase new footage from the ongoing pipeline resistance at Standing Rock, North Dakota.
Free.
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- Minnesota Environmental Congress
Minnesota Environmental Congress Minnesota Environmental Congress
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February 3, 2017The Environmental Congress is a unique opportunity to evaluate the state of our environment, revisit our environmental goals and expectations as Minnesotans, and set a course for the future.
This day-long conference will include sessions on topics ranging from pollinator health to adapting our regulatory tools, climate change to building a water ethic across the state. The agenda is built around the 2017 EQB Energy and Environment Report Card—an environmental status update on our air, land, water, climate and energy. The Report Card will be available in mid-January and at the Congress.
The Congress is a space for dialogue and collective problem-solving on Minnesota’s toughest environmental issues. Discussions will shine a spotlight on environmental trends and expected outcomes, and will highlight innovative work taking place across Minnesota on behalf of the environment. Participants will explore how we can work together in new and creative ways to take meaningful action.
Environmental Congress Goals
Raise awareness about the state of Minnesota’s environment
Engage the public on pressing policy issues
Advance mutual learning among a broad cross section of stakeholders, community leaders, and state government representatives
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- Buckthorn Brush Burn
Buckthorn Brush Burn Buckthorn Brush Burn
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February 4, 2017We’re hosting a winter brush pile burning event, where invasive buckthorn is the fuel at Allemansratt Wilderness park in Lindstrom, MN
We need 50 volunteers to haul, stack, and burn pre-cut buckthorn. We’ll serve the cocoa. You are welcome to bring hotdogs, marshmallows, and roasting sticks!
Registration is required
http://www.greatrivergreening.org/events/2017-winter-buckthorn-burn/Some considerations:
Moderate to heavy level restoration task.
Open to all ages (recommended age 8+).
This event is weather permitting and will be postponed if too dry or too cold.
Wear fire safe clothing: no fleece, weather tech materials, or other flammable synthetics (recommend wool and cotton).
Bring food for roasting (marshmallows, hotdogs, etc) and your camping chairs or 5-gallon buckets for sitting by the fire. -
- Birchwood BOOSTer Club Breakfast: Wake up to Urban Agriculture with WEI
Birchwood BOOSTer Club Breakfast: Wake up to Urban Agriculture with WEI Birchwood BOOSTer Club Breakfast: Wake up to Urban Agriculture with WEI
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February 10, 2017Join Women's Environmental Institute in the Birchwood Cafe Community Room for a breakfast of Good Real Food® and actionable information about urban agriculture. Urban agriculture is a vital part of the solution to increasing access to fresh fruits & vegetables in urban areas. Learn what’s happening in the MN legislature from Karen Clark, and what you can do to help advance urban ag. #betheBOOST
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- Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Cracked Screen Special, Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Cracked Screen Special
Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Cracked Screen Special Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Cracked Screen Special
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February 11, 2017Declutter your electronics for free! Drop unwanted e-waste at Tech Dump and get a coupon for Tech Discounts during February Salvage Saturdays.
Plus, Cracked Screen Saturday Special to replace iPhone and other smartphone screens!
iPhone 4 - Apple price to replace: $149, TECH DISCOUNTS PRICE: $60
iPhone 5 - Apple price to replace: $269, TECH DISCOUNTS PRICE: $75
iPhone 6 - Apple price to replace: $299, TECH DISCOUNTS PRICE: $97.50*We can replace other smartphone and tablet screens as well, just stop by or call (763) 548-2202 for a quote.
WHEN:
Saturday, February 11, 2017
TIME: 9 am to 1 pmWHERE:
Tech Dump Saint Paul, 698 Prior Avenue N, Saint Paul, MN 55104
Tech Dump Golden Valley: 825 Boone Ave North. #100, Golden Valley, MN 55427
Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Cracked Screen Special Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Cracked Screen Special
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February 11, 2017Declutter your electronics for free! Drop unwanted e-waste at Tech Dump and get a coupon for Tech Discounts during February Salvage Saturdays.
Plus, Cracked Screen Saturday Special to replace iPhone and other smartphone screens!
iPhone 4 - Apple price to replace: $149, TECH DISCOUNTS PRICE: $60
iPhone 5 - Apple price to replace: $269, TECH DISCOUNTS PRICE: $75
iPhone 6 - Apple price to replace: $299, TECH DISCOUNTS PRICE: $97.50*We can replace other smartphone and tablet screens as well, just stop by or call (763) 548-2202 for a quote.
WHEN:
Saturday, February 11, 2017TIME: 9 am to 1 pm
WHERE:
Tech Dump Saint Paul, 698 Prior Avenue N, Saint Paul, MN 55104
Tech Dump Golden Valley: 825 Boone Ave North. #100, Golden Valley, MN 55427
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- Hennepin County Fix-It Clinic
Hennepin County Fix-It Clinic Hennepin County Fix-It Clinic
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February 12, 2017Bring your broken household goods and clothing in need of repair. Please also bring any tools and supplies you think might help with the job. Events are first come, first served.
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- Fix It Tech Event, Wild Ones Design With Nature Conference
Fix It Tech Event Fix It Tech Event
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February 18, 2017Fix-It Tech events are free community technology education events providing computer hardware repair, education and tech support. Get your questions answered and your problems fixed. First come first served.
Wild Ones Design With Nature Conference Wild Ones Design With Nature Conference
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February 18, 2017Wild Ones Annual Design With Nature Conference has been growing along with advancement of both the design and practice of naturalized landscapes.
The conference offers insights into topics impacting the native plant movement, always encouraging us to embrace the connection of native plants to the ecological health of our communities.
Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a national, not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization founded in 1979.
Registration includes:
Admission for (1) to all presentations and exhibitor showroom. Includes refreshment breaks and lunch buffet.Save $15 When You Register Early
EARLYBIRD
Wild Ones Member* $55 | Non-Members $65
Ticket + Wild Ones Membership $92After January 28th, 2017
Wild Ones Member* $70 | Non-Members $80
Ticket + New Wild Ones Membership $92*Member rate applies to current members of Wild Ones and employees of Wild Ones business members. Also applies to members or employees of Conference Sponsors.
Students: We encourage students to attend and have a limited number of discounted tickets for qualifying full-time students. Scholarships available, contact Conference Chair for more information.
Buy Tickets
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- World Day of Social Justice: Why Food is at the Epicenter
World Day of Social Justice: Why Food is at the Epicenter World Day of Social Justice: Why Food is at the Epicenter
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February 20, 2017Where does your food come from? How is food a vital part of personal, community and environmental justice? Join us for this free event: a discussion with Professor Emerita Jacquelyn Zita (WEI Farm Manager & Director of Education), complete with clips from the classic film on sustainable agriculture, Fresh.
Bring your appetite for change and Good Real Food. The event is free, but dinner is not included. If you'd like to have dinner, please arrive in time to order your food before the event starts, and it will be delivered to you in the Community Room. -
- Parking Lot and Sidewalk Winter Maintenance Training (Level 1)
Parking Lot and Sidewalk Winter Maintenance Training (Level 1) Parking Lot and Sidewalk Winter Maintenance Training (Level 1)
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February 21, 2017This training offers information about best practices for managing winter maintenance (plowing, de-icing and anti-icing application, storage, and more). These practices will help you save money, time, and the environment! An optional test is offered at the end of the workshop to earn Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) Level 1 Certification in Winter Maintenance Best Practices. Certified Individuals are listed on the MPCA website.
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- Landscaping for Clean Water Workshop, Landscaping for Clean Water Workshop
Landscaping for Clean Water Workshop Landscaping for Clean Water Workshop
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February 23, 2017This free introductory workshop provides tips and tricks on creating native gardens, rain gardens and shoreline stabilization projects. These projects not only benefit local water quality, but also help provide much needed habitat for pollinators.
Open to Dakota County residents only. Registration required. Call 651-480-7777 or visit http://www.dakotacountyswcd.org/cleanwater.html to register.
Landscaping for Clean Water Workshop Landscaping for Clean Water Workshop
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February 23, 2017This free introductory workshop provides tips and tricks on creating native gardens, rain gardens and shoreline stabilization projects. These projects not only benefit local water quality, but also help provide much needed habitat for pollinators.
Open to Dakota County residents only. Registration required. Call 651-480-7777 or visit http://www.dakotacountyswcd.org/cleanwater.html to register.
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- Community brush haul + bonfire at newly protected Houlton Farm, St. Paul: Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Data Recovery Special, Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Data Recovery Special, Workshop: The Psychology of Sustainable Behavior, Ramsey County Fix It Clinic
Community brush haul + bonfire at newly protected Houlton Farm Community brush haul + bonfire at newly protected Houlton Farm
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February 25, 2017Join Friends of the Mississippi River for our first volunteer event taking place at the newly protected William H. Houlton Conservation Area - Houlton Farm - for a community gathering hauling brush, Saturday, February 25.
Volunteers will haul pre-cut buckthorn brush to help clear the site to make way for further restoration efforts. Following the brush haul, lunch will be served around noon. Volunteers are welcome to eat, socialize and keep warm around a bonfire.
All are welcome at this family-friendly gathering, however, advanced registration is required and space is limited. Learn more, including how to register at http://fmr.org/events/2017/02/25/community-brush-haul-bonfire-newly-protected-houlton-farm.St. Paul: Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Data Recovery Special St. Paul: Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Data Recovery Special
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February 25, 2017Declutter your electronics for free! Drop unwanted e-waste at Tech Dump and get a coupon for Tech Discounts during February Salvage Saturdays.
Plus, Tech Discounts professional data recovery can recover lost, deleted, or formatted files, even if your computer won't turn on. Data recovery services starting at just $99. If we can't recover it, you don't pay for it.
WHEN:
Saturday, February 25, 2017
TIME: 9 am to 1 pm
WHERE:
Tech Dump Saint Paul, 698 Prior Avenue N, Saint Paul, MN 55104
Tech Dump Golden Valley, 825 Boone Ave North. #100, Golden Valley, MN 55427Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Data Recovery Special Take a Tech Dump During Salvage Saturdays in February + Data Recovery Special
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February 25, 2017WHAT:
Declutter your electronics for free! Drop unwanted e-waste at Tech Dump and get a coupon for Tech Discounts during February Salvage Saturdays.
Plus, Tech Discounts professional data recovery can recover lost, deleted, or formatted files, even if your computer won't turn on. Data recovery services starting at just $99. If we can't recover it, you don't pay for it.
WHEN:
Saturday, February 25, 2017
TIME: 9 am to 1 pm
WHERE:
Tech Dump Saint Paul, 698 Prior Avenue N, Saint Paul, MN 55104
Tech Dump Golden Valley, 825 Boone Ave North. #100, Golden Valley, MN 55427Workshop: The Psychology of Sustainable Behavior Workshop: The Psychology of Sustainable Behavior
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February 25, 2017Are you someone who cares about the environment and wishes more people would make environmentally sustainable choices? Have you ever wondered how you can help people make those choices?
This workshop will offer several exercises designed to help you:
1. Identify and overcome barriers that stop people from taking action.
2. Understand your community’s identity and values.
3. Build social norms for sustainability.
4. Meet people’s deeper psychological needs.Developed and Facilitated by Dr. Christie Manning, Macalester College. Free. Pre-Registration is required.
Ramsey County Fix It Clinic Ramsey County Fix It Clinic
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February 25, 2017Bring your broken household goods and clothing in need of repair. Please also bring any tools and supplies you think might help with the job. Events are first come, first served.
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- Starting Seeds Indoors
Starting Seeds Indoors Starting Seeds Indoors
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February 26, 2017Get ready for planting your vegetable garden this spring by joining us for a demonstration on starting seeds indoors and on winter sowing, an easy and economical way of starting seeds outdoors during the winter. Learn how to care for them as they grow and go home with a winter sowing kit and some seeds!
