Thanks for Getting Away with Us
Give to the Max Day Getaway Last Thursday, we celebrated Give to the Max Day in a somewhat unconventional way: with a happy hour. If you’re not familiar with Give...
Meet our Member of the Month, Barr Engineering Co.
Barr Engineering Co. is honored to be featured as Environmental Initiative’s member of the month. We are an employee-owned engineering and environmental consulting firm with nine offices across North America...
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...
Land O’Lakes SUSTAIN: Champion for Sustainable Change
We all know the phrase: “Work smarter, not harder.” Well, the folks at Land O’Lakes decided to double-down on both. The Sustainable Leadership: Large Employer Award is given to an...
Rural Vitality Winner: The Root River Field to Stream Partnership
It’s a tried-and-true recipe: Combine good science (which needs all the allies it can get these days), hard work, and personal relationships Apply to difficult situation Learn lessons Repeat It’s...
Energy & Climate Winners: Community Solar for Community Action
You may have heard that we’ve officially kicked off Environmental Initiative Awards season by announcing the 2018 winners. If you missed it, our ceremony will be on May 23 where...
And 2018 Award Winners are…
It’s hard to believe it’s already the time of year where we’re getting ready to celebrate the 2018 Environmental Initiative Awards. For those that don’t know, our awards program recognizes...
A BIG shout out to you! (You know who you are)
2017 came to a close and I wanted to take a minute to thank all of our amazing generous donors for making our 25th Anniversary a success! Because of you,...