Event Start:
Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 8:30am - 4:30pm Free, at Central Lutheran Church, 333 12th Street South, Minneapolis 55404 (next to the Minneapolis Convention Center)
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 own neighborhood and with 500 neighborhood volunteers from around the Twin Cities.
Topic Workshops on community gardening, traffic calming, complete streets, energy conservation, renewable energy, composting, rain gardens, tree planting, the emerald ash borer, transition towns, alternative currencies, and permaculture extreme makeovers for a block club, neighborhood and congregation.
Keynote speaker - Mark Lakeman from the City Repair Project, Portland Oregon Placemaking – speaking on how neighborhood volunteers can calm traffic and build community through street painting and greening projects.
Goals
- Support volunteers to green their neighborhood, congregation, school or businesses – with project tool kits, free materials, lawn signs a resource guide and speaker lists
- Support citizens to partner with their city to enact sustainable local policies - through becoming a MN Green Step City, eco-municipality or transition community and sustainability indicators.
- Support citizens to advocate for wise state policies to secure a sustainable shared future.
Audience
500 citizen leaders and volunteers from neighborhoods, congregations, schools, businesses and city environmental commissions will get practical resources for their hands-on projects and will learn from other citizen leaders who have partnered with their city to bring about sustainable local policies.
