5th Annual Neighborhood Sustainability Conference
Saturday March 13, 2010 8:30am to 4:30pm,
Central Lutheran Church,
333 12th Street South Minneapolis, MN 55404
(next to the Minneapolis Convention Center)
FREE - Please please pre-register at www.afors.org or call 612-331-1099
(Optional box lunch for $5, parking $8 or car pool or take metro transit)
for community volunteers from neighborhoods, congregations and schools. PDF Flyer
The block club bringing the most neighbors to the event will each receive free blue sky guides
Find great resources for your spring and summer neighborhood projects including funding sources, project tool kits and successful project ideas from other neighborhoods.
·Network with volunteers from your neighborhood over lunch and with 500 volunteers from other metro communities in topic workshops. Link up with more than 30 resource organizations with project resources on gardening, water quality, walking/ biking, trees and energy.
Topic to be covered include community gardening, rain gardens, emerald ash borer, painting the pavement, energy conservation, renewable energy, composting, biking and walking, transition towns, global sufficiency network, permaculture design and outreach skill building with block clubs, congregations, schools, garden clubs, urban farming and green career networking.
FREE Agenda PDF Flyer (details below) Please please pre-register at www.afors.org or call 612-331-1099
(Optional box lunch for $5, parking $8 or car pool or take metro transit)
Detailed AGENDA
Twin Cities Neighborhood Sustainability Conference, Saturday March 13, 2010, 8:30am to 4:30pm, Central Lutheran Church, Mpls
8:30am - Registration and Refreshments
9am – Keynote - Placemaking – Reclaiming our Public Spaces and Building Community- through street painting, public art and greening projects. Mark Lakeman from the City Repair Project, Portland OR
10 to 11:30 - Grassroots Project Workshops – Energy Conservation (Metro CERTS), Complete Streets/ Biking and Walking (Bike/Walk Twin Cities), Rain Gardens (Master Gardeners), Composting (Eureka Recycling), Emerald Ash Borer/ Tree Planting (Hamline Midway, DNR), Community Gardening (Gardening Matters), Transition Northfield, Global Sufficiency Network/ Dual Currencies
11:30 to 12:30 - Participatory Design Charrettes - Participate in extreme makeovers with permaculture designers, and neighborhood residents - Seward Block Clubs – traffic calming, St. Luke Presbyterian suburban food production, Central Corridor/ Frogtown Farm and the Natural Step for Communities
12:30 - Meet for lunch with others from your neighborhood to share your project ideas for the spring /summer. $5 box lunch available please pre-register or bring your own lunch.
2pm to 3:30pm - Organizing and Outreach Skill Building Sessions – Learn ways to grow your green team with School Environmental Clubs, Congregations, Taking the 12 Steps of Transition in your Community, Block Clubs & Neighborhoods, Public Artists, Urban Farmers, Community Gardens, Environmental Commissions, State and Federal Policy, Green Career Networking
3:30 to 4:30- Networking, exhibitors and reception - with food donated by local organic restaurants.
The public is invited to the free conference but pre-registration for the conference is requested through the Alliance for Sustainability, www.afors.org or 612-331-1099.
The conference is sponsored by the Alliance for Sustainability, Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Hennepin and Ramsey Counties, League of Minnesota Cities, Metro Cities, Association of Minnesota Counties, Met Council, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Schuler Shook, Xcel Energy, Barr Engineering, Emmons Olivier Resources, Bonetroo, Minnehaha Creek Watershed District, Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, Transit for Livable Communities, Clean Water Action, Gardening Matters, Do it Green MN, Metro Clean Energy Resource Teams and Permaculture Cold Climate Research Institute. More sponsors and exhibitors are welcome!
Questions?
Please contact Sean Gosiewski, Program Director, Alliance for Sustainability 612-331-1099 sean@afors.org www.afors.org
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