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Ami Voeltz Do It Green! Minnesota Here are tips and resources to help your workplace prevent pollution, conserve resources, make your work environment healthier, and save money! Reduce Ad Mail Places receive a great deal of unsolicited mail for products and services. Even when these materials are wanted, there can …
HECTOR GARCIA UBS Financial Services Inc. A growing number of people are investing to achieve change in the future of their communities, the environment and the world. Socially responsible investing (SRI) assets rose more than 324 percent from $639 billion in 1995 to $2.71 trillion in 2007 while total assets …
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Paul Gruchow Voices for the Land Minnesota. The name says it all: the land of sky blue waters. The place where prairies, forests, rivers, lakes, and valleys create a stunning tapestry on the land. A place where legend has a foothold in Paul Bunyan and Babe, the Blue Ox. Where …
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Sara Grochowski Do It Green! Minnesota Every choice consumers make, regardless of scale, impacts the environment. However, the buying process can be overwhelming, and it is best to start with the basics. Some important tips to remember are: • Avoid excess packaging• Buy products in recyclable containers• Buy reusable and …
Amy Pickett and Chad Skally Skally Management Too often when we talk about living green, we focus on homeowners rather than renters. At Skally Management, a family-owned and -operated real estate management company in St. Paul, we’re changing that concept by finding innovative ways to practice Eco-Management: sustainable, responsible real …
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Erin Barnes-Driscoll Green Building Specialist, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Most homeowners typically face an array of choices involved in designing, building, outfitting, upgrading, expanding, tweaking, and/or overhauling the sanctuaries in which they reside. For many, it provides an important opportunity to express their personal values in the choices made, be …
Laura Domyancich EnergyScapes, Inc. Choosing to go green by installing a rain garden is a choice for clean water, reduced resource use, and healthy habitat. Rain gardens reduce run-off and create a beautiful landscape feature. These benefits, however, rely on seasonal maintenance. Simple, proactive steps ensure that a rain garden …
Sara Johnson Blue Sky Guide In a place where the winter can often seem unending, choosing clothing to protect from the sun is probably not at the forefront of any Minnesotan’s mind. However, with skin care and skin cancer-prevention in mind, many clothing companies are introducing “sun protective clothing” (also …
Robert Mugaas University of Minnesota Extension Educator, Environmental Horticulture Over the last 150 years many midwestern tallgrass prairies and natural woodlands have been converted to residential housing, agricultural fields, municipalities, shopping centers, parking lots, roads and highways. In the process, this development has consumed large areas of natural plant and …
