Barr Engineering Co.: Member of the Month
Barr Engineering Co. is honored to be featured as Environmental Initiative’s member of the month and to have this opportunity to reflect on our work with Environmental Initiative and what...
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...
Thanks for Making 2018 Shine
Thank you, THANK you, THANK YOU! I wanted to take the time to thank everyone who donated to our year-end campaign. I want to start by thanking our current and...
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...