2010 Environmental Initiative Awards Finalists
Photo: In April 2010, American Heritage Girls Troop 521 helped clean up White Oaks Park Pond off of 55th St NW.
The finalists for the annual Environmental Initiative Awards were announced recently by the Minnesota Environmental Initiative (MEI). A team of independent judges selected fifteen finalist projects, in five award categories, out of the fifty nominations MEI received. The projects range from local efforts to statewide projects, but all are examples of innovative projects that have harnessed the power of partnership to achieve extraordinary environmental outcomes.
MEI believes that partnership is an effective way to find solutions to Minnesota’s environmental problems. Many of Minnesota’s most innovative environmental projects have succeeded through collaboration, often involving partners from business, nonprofit, and government sectors. MEI established the Environmental Initiative Awards in 1994 to honor these projects and their many partners, to inspire other organizations to create similar successful projects, and to encourage innovative collaborative approaches to environmental problem solving.
One award winner from each category will be announced at the 2010 Environmental Initiative Awards dinner on Thursday, May 27, at the Nicollet Island Pavilion. In addition, one of the fifteen finalist projects will be selected by the audience that night to receive the 2010 Partnership of the Year Award. Tables seating eight or individual tickets for the dinner will be available for purchase through Friday, May 14.
The finalists are:
Energy and Climate Protection
• Minneapolis Pilot Curbside Organics Recycling
• Minnesota Schools Cutting Carbon
• Target Center Green Roof
Environmental Education
• Get the Lead Out!
• Help Make Rochester a Litter Bit Better!
• Youth Energy Summit (YES!)
Green Building, Development and Land Use
• Minnesota Green Communities Initiative
• Mississippi Market Co-op’s West 7th Store
• Skyridge Business Center and Nature Preserve
• Green Business and Environmental Management
• Butler Square
• Cannery Heat Recovery Project
• Making Dirt, Not Waste: Expanding Commercial Composting in Minneapolis
Natural Resource Protection and Restoration
• Arlington-Pascal Stormwater Improvements
• Conservation Based Land Use Planning: City of Hanover
• Scott Cost Share and Incentive Project
For more information on the finalist projects and attending the 2010 Environmental Initiative
Awards dinner, visit http://www.mn-ei.org/awards/about.html.
CONTACT: Georgia Rubenstein
211 First Street N., Suite 250 612-334-3388 x107
Minneapolis, MN 55401
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