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
Summit Survey
Thank you for your input. Our survey is now closed but we look forward to hearing your thoughts regarding the 2011 YES! Summit. Please e-mail us at [email protected] with your comments. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world's leading questionnaire tool.
you voted, we listened!
and the winning design is... Teams will receive their shirts at the November 9th Summit according to their RSVP numbers and size preferences. We will be placing a second order later this season, to accommodate teams unable to attend the Summit as well as new teams.
YES! northern expansion underway
If you are in Benton, Stearns, Morrison, Todd, Pope, Douglas, Grant, or Ottertail Counties, we want to hear from you! In upcoming months, YES! will be building partnerships with schools and communities in this new region. We're especially happy to welcome Shelli-Kae Foster into the YES! team as coordinator of YES! in this new region and as project manager for the LCCMR grant. This expansion is
seed GRANTS AVAILABLE
The Minnesota Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) seek to provide limited financial assistance for energy efficiency and/or renewable energy projects requiring technical assistance. Project funding can support technical assistance services (i.e. labor costs only, such as for a consultant, design professional, installer or student labor), for projects in all seven Minnesota CERT regions:
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