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...
For the past 15 years, Clean Air Minnesota has worked to improve the air Minnesotans breathe, and Bill Droessler has been there almost every step of the way. For his...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hello from the Environmental Initiative office, where I am thrilled to be sitting. My name is Amy Fredregill and as of late March, I joined the team as the new...
You know a project is special when, after reading the nomination, you pause and mutter under your breath, “Wow, I wish I could do that.” When I found myself immediately...