The Willmar Community Greenhouse is attracting more attention: It's featured on Minnesota Department of Education's homepage, Minnesota School Nutrition Association's homepage, and in a statewide presentation about new school nutrition regulations. Meanwhile, rotating groups of 5th graders toured Willmar Community Greenhouse this week, learning about the fresh, local produce being grown for the
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Royalton YES! team “in the news…”
Article adapted from the 'Morrison County Record', an ECM Publishers, Inc. Publication "It is good to work with the community on how to change to green without changing lifestyles," stated YES Club president Damian Lenarz. In it's first year, the Royalton YES! Club has been involved with assessing and setting goals to continue working with and educating the community and school district toward
Creatively Connecting Things
Winter Workshops 2012 Creatively connecting things - either literally duct-taping them together or more figuratively connecting issues with opportunities - was the theme to the three YES! Winter Workshops that recently took place across Minnesota. YES! teams from southern and west-central Minnesota all had the opportunity to gather at one of the three Workshops February 1st and February 8th.
“We’re spreading the news…!”
Sleepy Eye YES! team is in the news with their recent collection of Holiday Lights! Read more here! Make sure to also stay up-to-date with other YES! teams with their own websites too, by clicking on their links on the Current YES! Teams page.
Winter is Here
While we haven't hit the winter solstice yet, it's currently snowing, so by my calendar it's winter. While you may not be the "keeper of the thermostat" in your house, you can encourage your parents to be mindful of how they set the thermostat this winter season. As a rule of thumb, your home will operate at optimum energy efficiency if you “heat to 78, cool to 68” degrees F. By adjusting the
Earth Tub on the move
We are happy to announce that recently the Earth Tub was moved from the Carleton College campus in Northfield, MN to its new home with the Springfield, MN YES! team/high school. The Springfield YES! team applied earlier this summer for the opportunity to pilot the Earth Tub as a mid-scale composting system. Springfield's previous work with worm-composting bins, careful site selection and school