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)
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
Detailed AGENDA
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