Sleepy Eye YES! team recently went caroling for lights, where they went door to door to collect old holiday lights people wanted to recycle. They have collected 400lbs so far, and they are still going! They plan to continue to collect lights now through next week at their schools. If you still have a bag of lights you'd like to recycle drop them off at either the Sleepy Eye High School or St.
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the POWER shower
Let's be honest, our daily shower routine may not be the most efficient (see image). But apart from saving us some time, taking shorter showers can dramatically help conserve water and energy. Showering is one of the biggest uses of water in the home, representing approximately 17% of residential indoor water use, or more than 1.2 trillion gallons of water consumed in the United States each year
Recycle Your Lights!
Several YES! teams are collecting old lights to be properly recycled. SO, take the opportunity to off-load those broken, non-functioning lights by bringing them to one of the following collecting teams: Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City (ACGC) High School (Grove City) Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop High School (Winthrop) Litchfield High School Minnewaska High School Redwood Valley High School (Redwood
Willmar Community Greenhouse
The Willmar Community Greenhouse is showcased in this informative post on the Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) website. Be sure to preview the video to learn more (and picture warmer times in Minnesota!). “Our ultimate plan for implementing a year-round greenhouse into Willmar’s community is to build the greenhouse on the Willmar Senior High School’s property and grow fresh produce for 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
Holiday Light Recycling
For those of you who have already helped decorate for Halloween, stringing orange lights among cobwebs. Or for the few of you who may have already even ventured into the Holiday aisle at Target and picked out this year's new holiday lights ... DON'T LET the OLD LIGHTS be THROWN OUT! Instead bag them up to be collected in this Recycle your Holiday Campaign! CERTs is once again partnering with
