Community Energy Services has the resources and rebates to melt away your ice dam problems.

Ice dams can ruin a perfectly good Minnesota winter.  Eliminate the problem before it reappears this season.  We’ll provide you with the resources on certified contractors, insulation rebates, and more.  

Community Energy Services is Minneapolis’ premier home energy efficiency program.  We’ve assisted thousands of homeowners improve their homes’ energy efficiency for surprisingly minimal costs
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Attending a FREE presentation qualifies your for a home visit by a team of our energy experts.  The home assessment is only $30 and we’ll supply $400 in services and materials.  98% of homeowners who attend our workshop follow up with a home visit - because it’s a remarkable services and value.

The next presentation is Tuesday, October 4th, at 6:30 PM at Matthews Park Recreation Center (2318 29th Ave S).  Call (612) 219-7334 or go to www.mnces.orgfor more details and to reserve your workshop spot.  Additional workshop dates available online.

mncee.org	Kyle Boehm | Community Organizer 612.219.7334 (phone) | kboehm@mncee.org Center for Energy and Environment | Minnesota’s Energy Experts 212 3rd Avenue North, Suite 560, Minneapolis, MN 55401
Take the Energy Challenge

Seward’s NEW Recycling Project

• all paper fiber, and
• all containers (metal cans, plastic bottles and glass containers and jars).

Residents in the pilot area also are eligible to receive NEW recycling containers to aid with the two-sort system. The Minneapolis Sanitation & Recycling Office will provide two or more recycling receptacles at no cost to residents. There are several choices but the Seward Neighborhood Group encourages residents to request the wheeled, 22 gallon recycling carts with lids as their preferred receptacle.

photo by Carol Greenwood

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6th Annual Sustainable Communities Conference

Sat April 9 - Sustainable Communities Conference, Central Lutheran, Mpls - 8:30 to 4:30, FREE

6th Annual Sustainable Communities Conference

Linking Citizens and Cities for Sustainable Communities

Saturday, April 9, 2011, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., Central Lutheran Church

333 12th St. S., Minneapolis, MN 55404 (next to the Minneapolis Convention Center)

Agenda & List of Workshops - www.afors.org/2011Conference  

PDF Conference Full Agenda           ½ Page Conference Flyer

FREE ADMISSION - Please pre-register at www.afors.org/2011ConferenceRegistration or call 612-331-1099

9am - Keynote speakers: Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Town Movement and Krista Leraas, co-founder of Harvest Mood Backyard Farmers.

10:am - Hands-on Project Workshops for your spring and summer projects including: energy conservation outreach, community gardening and local food, composting and recycling, bike/ walk advocacy, rain gardens, community art projects and transition towns 101 and awareness raising tools/ Awakening the Dreamer.

11:30am – Organizing & Outreach Skill-Building Sessions for Neighborhood Environment Committees, Transition Towns, Congregations, Schools, Community Gardens, Green Businesses, Community Artists, Back-Yard Inventors, Advocacy for Climate Justice and City Environmental Commissions.

12:30pm – Lunch Conversations – meet for lunch with others from your community to plan next steps.

1:30pm - Working together to meet OUR city/county sustainability goals

Find practical ways to you can help your city or county meet ambitious goals to curb global warming pollution, increase recycling rates, end homelessness, grow local food, etc.  In each session you will learn about key sustainability goals of local government, challenges we are facing and practical ways neighbors can work together to meet these ambitious goals. City and county staff want to hear your ideas! After a brief overview, participants will meet in small groups to brainstorm solutions that city and county staff and volunteers with the Minneapolis Citizen Environmental Advisory Commission will use as they plan next steps.  Choose 2 topics to learn about. Session are repeated at 1:30 and 2:15pm

3:00pm – Networking and Resource Tables – with more than 20 local resource groups

3:30pm – Community Sing – with Minnesota Community Sings - Bret Hesla and Mary Preus

Workshop Options

o       Green Career Networking – with Green Career Tracks & Net Impact

o       Overstuffed:  How to enjoy more, spend less, and be kinder to the planet – withNicole Lynsky

o       Relating from We: 10^th Dot Vonda Vaden & Yogiraj Achala

Free admission!  Lunch will be provided by Chow Girls for $5 per person.  Bring your friends and consider ride sharing.  Ramp parking is available for $9 per vehicle at Central Lutheran. 

PDF Conference Full Agenda           ½ Page Conference Flyer

Register at  www.afors.org/2011ConferenceRegistration  or call Sean at (612) 331-1099 x 1

P.S. Citizen volunteers are also invited to join us the day before on Friday April 8 – 3^rd Annual Local Government Sustainability Workshop – Central Lutheran Church, Noon to 5pm – for 400 metro area local government staff, elected and citizen leaders. www.afors.org/2011Conference

P.P.S   After the conference please join us (and get a $3 discount) for the Don’t Stand Still CD release concert

Saturday April 9 2011 at 8:00pm at the Loring Theater 1407 Nicollet Ave S Mpls, MN 55403 www.loringtheater.com.

Join Larry Long, Tonia Hughes, Robert Robinson and Special Guests JD Steele, Billy Peterson and more. $20 in advance, $22 at the door. Proceeds benefit Community Celebration of Place www.communitycelebration.org  www.larrylong.org 

The Alliance for Sustainability and MPCA Sustainable Communities Team want to thank our generous conference sponsors whose support made this conference possible - League of Minnesota Cities, Metro Cities, Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Ramsey County, APA MN, 3M, Barr Engineering, Bonestroo, Center for Energy and Environment, Dakota Electric, Earth Wizards, Emmons & Olivier Resources, EnergyScapes, Envision MN, Eureka Recycling, Excellent Packaging Solutions, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, Metropolitan Council, McKnight Foundation, MN Office of Energy Security, MPCA  Sustainable Communities Team, Metro Clean Energy Resource Teams, Schuler Shook, Transit for Livable Communities/ Bike Walk Twin Cities, U of MN College of Design, Solution Blue, Sustainability Associates, ULI MN, University Bank, VWI Sustainability Consulting, Xcel Energy, Cool Planet, Citizens for a Loring Park Community, Central Lutheran Church, French Meadow Café & Bakery, Peace Coffee, One Dish, Wedge Coop, Seward Coop, Lakewinds Coop, Linden Hills Coop and Chow Girls Catering.

(A printable Word document with this information is attached.)

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Draft Environment Committee meeting minutes for 3/21/11. For amendment and approval at April 18 meeting.

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From: Carol Greenwood <carolgwood@comcast.net>

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Flyer for Seward Enhanced Recycling Program. 

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Flyer for Seward Enhanced Recycling Program. 

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Join Over 100 Seward homeowners that have already participated in Community Energy Services.

Community Energy Services, CES,  is a residential energy program that has served over 2,800 Minneapolis homes, including over 100 in Seward already. CES provides free educational workshops where homeowners can learn actions and techniques for saving energy and money in their home.  Homeowners are then eligible to schedule a customized home visit.  This visit includes two energy experts spending an hour and a half with the homeowner in their home.  During that time they will perform a blower door test, which measures for air leaks and install materials.  These materials may include: compact fluorescent light bulbs, low-flow showerheads, faucet aerators, pipe wrap and more.  Homeowners also qualify for specialized rebates available to only participants of this program.

An additional workshop is taking place on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at Matthews Park Recreation Center at 6:30 P.M.  To reserve your spot, for more information, or for additional dates please contact Kyle Boehm at (612) 219-7334 or kboehm@mncee.org.  Please visit our website at www.mnces.org.

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Looking for a way to recycle plastics not accepted by the city’s recycling program? Longfellow,Seward, and other surrounding neighborhood residents can now recycle all hard-to-recycle plastics (#1-6): simply drop them off at Anne Sullivan School (3100 E. 28th St.) any Sunday between 9 a.m.-12 noon. This experimental recycling program is sponsored by Jacob’s Well (http://www.jacobs-well.net), a Longfellow church, and runs from now to the end of December. For those who would like to request a pick-up, call 612.822.0300.