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Reprinted from “Why Buy Recycled” Published by Anoka County Recycling is more complex than just collecting materials to keep them out of the waste stream. Recyclables must be made into new products and then to “close the recycling loop” they must be purchased and recycled again. You support recycling by …
JESSIE HOULIHAN Do It Green! Minnesota Butter Bakery and Cafe owner, Dan Swenson-Klatt, on how his restaurant is working to lessen their impact on the environment. Q: How does Butter Bakery’s product differ from a conventional restaurant? A: It’s our goal to choose as many local and sustainable foods as …
Ryan North Co-owner of Twin Cities Green As the owners of Twin Cities Green, my wife Tina and I have noticed a wonderful and growing trend of sustainability when it comes to gift giving and gift getting! From sourcing to presentation and everything in between, whether you’ve been green for …
Kathy Swenson Do It Green! Magazine Tucked away in South Minneapolis is one of just two Victory Gardens nationwide still in active use. The gardens at Dowling School in Minneapolis and the Fenway Victory Garden in Boston are the only two remaining gardens left of the approximately 20 million nationwide …
Mark Snyder Do It Green! Minnesota As we learn more about the potential effects of climate change, many of us are exploring ways to reduce our “carbon footprint” or how much carbon dioxide is created by the choices we make in our homes, our travel, the food we eat, and …
Metro Transit Thousands of customers every day rely on Metro Transit to get them to and from work or school. In fact our 2007 goal is to serve 75 million customer trips and in 2006 we delivered 73.4 million customer trips (9 million of those were on the Hiawatha LRT …
Do It Green! Minnesota Best known as the home of the Mayo Clinic and IBM, Rochester is also southeastern Minnesota’s largest community with approximately 137,000 residents in the city and Olmsted County. Money Magazine recently said it best: “One thing to remember about Rochester is that it has the sophistication …
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Tamara Downs Schwei Dovetail Partners, Inc. Minnesota’s forests are vital to the state economy and environment. The Minnesota wood products industry provides employment to rural communities and serves markets throughout the world. As global trade in forest products grows, forest certification has emerged as a mechanism for consumers to identify …
Compiled from REDUCE.ORG and DOITGREEN.ORG. 1. Determine how much food waste you create each day for lunch-measure and track all the food you throw away from your lunch during one week on a chart at home. 2. Brainstorm ways to reduce how much food and trash you are throwing in …
Tom Taylor Midwest and Southeast Field Organizer for the Organic Consumers Association Being in the checkout line at the grocery store is not a passive event. Choosing the food you eat is the biggest political and the most far-reaching act that occurs daily in America. The availability of a plethora …
