Please join us and invite your friends and neighbors in your District Council
to join us! Thanks! Many St. Paul projects will be featured on both Friday
and Saturday!
Twin Cities neighborhood volunteers will share stories of their successful
projects (including outreach and funding ideas) in interactive workshops on
community gardening, rain gardens, urban forestry, biking and walking, work for
water clean ups, community murals, home energy conservation, community solar
and awareness raising. Learn ways to grow your team for your block club,
neighborhood, congregation, school or environmental commission.
7th Annual Twin Cities Sustainable Community Conference - March 23 and 24, 2012
What - Day 2 - Community Conference - Free -
When - Saturday March 24, 8:30am to 3:30am
Where - Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, 511 Groveland Ave, Minneapolis
55403 (easy access by bike, bus & car pool, free parking)
http://hennepinchurch.org/about/directions/
Who - For 500 volunteers from neighborhoods, congregations, schools and
environmental commissions to share hands on project resources.
Registration - See the agenda and Agenda/Poster Register - Free - (suggested
lunch donation at the door $5 to $10)
www.afs.nonprofitoffice.com/2012conference
Highlights -
9 am - Video Welcome by Bill McKibben of 350.org, Keynotes - Learning from our
past to envision our sustainable future for the Twin Cities - Energy Systems -
Ellen Anderson, MDA, Transportation - Barb Thoman, Transit for Livable
Communities and Food Systems - Ken Meter, Crossroads Resource Center. Paired
sharing led by Kaia Svien.
10:30 am - Project Workshops: Mpls Carbon Reduction Plan, Community Energy
Projects, Community Gardening, Rain Gardens for Congregations, Community
Forestry (protecting our ash trees) & Working for Water Campaigns, Community
Murals, Bike/walk/transit options, Linking Internationally, Healthy Legacy -
reforming state and federal chemical policy, Building resiliency through our
cultural wisdom
Noon - Lunch: meet your neighbors
1:30 pm - Organizing Workshops: Local Food Resource Hubs, GreenStep Cities and
Environmental Commissions, Congregational Green Teams, Business Green Teams,
Youth Organizing, MN350 - citizen action on climate change, Transition Town
Organizing, Collaborative Leadership for Successful Change Projects, Digital
Neighborhoods, Backyard Inventors
2:30 pm - Economic Solutions Workshops: Training for Green Jobs - Energy
Businesses & Coops, Alternate economic systems: barter, hour dollars and dual
currency, Local Food Systems, Urban Farming and Coops, Conversation on Money,
Humanity & the Earth, State and Federal Budget Campaigns, Personal
sustainability and skills exchanges, Foreclosure Prevention
3:30 pm - Networking Reception and Exhibitors and Awakening the Dreamer
Symposium