By Matthew Burns, WWG Earth YES! student The WWG Earth YES! class is recycling plastic bags. This year’s goal is to collect over 16,000. We have collected over 2,000 bags, and it’s been a little over 3 months. We encourage the people of Westbrook to participate in the recycling. The bags that get recycled are sorted and counted; the colored bags are separated out to make bracelets. The white
First Annual Northeastern MN Fall Summit
On November 19 four brand new YES! teams assembled at Laurentian Environmental Center for the first ever NE MN YES! Fall Summit. As often happens in the northern climates, the day was snowy and the roads were icy, but teams traveled over 80 miles in these winter conditions to participate. 38 students and 5 coaches participated in a day of learning, brainstorming, and networking. The day started
Food For Thought During The Holiday Feasting Season
Recently YES! Coordinator Jim DeVries wrote this article: As we approach the holiday season, families often gather together to share a meal and catch up on family news. One of the big things that often happens after a big meal is all the food left on plates and often in the serving dishes gets scraped into the garbage, everyone too full to think about leftovers. I challenge you to think
2014 YES! Fall Summit
Over 170 students and teachers from 15 schools throughout southwest, west-central and central Minnesota gathered at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center on October 22nd for the eighth annual YES! Fall Summit. This year’s Summit provided a variety of energy-related experiences around the theme Explore. Excite. Engage. Throughout the day, students were able to connect with their peers,
Jonathan’s Thoughts on Climate Change
Climate change is here and is going to get worse before it gets better. Therefore, a pragmatic optimism needs to be adopted. On November 6th in Minneapolis a few YES! staff members had the opportunity to join a conversation at the Climate Adaptation Conference on what it means to adopt this pragmatic optimism and understand what can be done to adapt to our changing climate. It is vital that we
CERTs Event at PWELC October 15th
It's not too late to register for this Wednesday's Oct. 15th WC CERT event taking place from 1:00 to 4:00pm at Prairie Woods Environmental Learning Center in Spicer! Join CERTs to learn about renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in your region! A panel of WC CERT seed grant recipients will talk about their projects-- impacts, outcomes, and lessons learned. There will be plenty of