CU Green Clean Energy Lending Platform: Energy and Climate Winner
In a world where we’re inundated with choices and challenges, people are taking charge of their own actions. They’re using reusable cups and mugs, they’re trying to be low (or...
Poplar River Management Board: Rural Vitality Winner
According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), bodies of water are listed as “impaired” if they do not meet Minnesota water quality standards, which protect our state’s water for...
Dania Marin-Gavilan: Courageous Innovator
More and more, we are seeing the connections between environmental and social issues. In order to solve complex issues, we must treat them as complex. We must acknowledge all the...
And the 2019 Award Winners Are…
To most people, spring signals: melting snow, warming temperatures and blooming flowers. To me, though, it means the Environmental Initiative Awards are coming. Each year, Environmental Initiative honors people and...
2019 Awards: Elevating Interconnected Environmental Approaches
As you may have heard, nominations for the 2019 Environmental Initiative Awards are now open. The Awards will honor people and projects who approach their work collaboratively, while involving community voices and considering...
Your 2019 Awards Questions Answered
WHAT ARE THE ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE AWARDS? For over 25 years, Environmental Initiative has worked across difference to create spaces where people can openly exchange ideas and build solutions to complex...
Centering Equity at this Year’s Awards Celebration
At last month’s Environmental Initiative Awards, our community honored five projects and three individuals who center collaborative solutions to Minnesota’s most pressing environmental issues in their work. It was wonderful...
Demetria Fuller & Adam Pruitt: Courageous Innovators
The connections between income, food, and public health is unmistakably clear. How these systems continually fail our disadvantaged communities is even clearer. Around 2 million households in the United States...
Ellen Anderson: Critical Collaborator
While all Environmental Initiative awards celebrate the exceptional and remarkable people in the environmental field, the Critical Collaborator category is in a class of its own. It is the recognition...
Small Business Sustainability Leadership: Liberty Apartments & Townhomes
For the life of me, I will never understand how all of these incredible projects and people don’t make headlines on a regular basis. Perhaps it’s because of the ironic...