Top 10 Green Campaign Ideas

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SEAN GOSIEWSKI
Alliance for Sustainability
Work with your neighborhood organization, congregation, school, workplace, or club to start a green campaign. Here are some campaign ideas to get you started. Many of these campaigns already have materials preprinted and other tools to make it easy for you to take it and run with it!

Minnesota Energy Challenge mnenergychallenge.org

Change a Light Change the World (October) energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=change_light.pledge_drive_kit

Storm Water Campaigns (Spring & Summer) cleanwatermn.org, Rain Gardens metroblooms.org, Blue Thumb bluethumb.org, Earth Day Watershed Clean Ups

America Recycles Day (Nov 15)   nrc-recycle.org/americarecycles.aspx or recycleminnesota.org, Choose to Reuse co.hennepin.mn.us

Metro Commuter Challenge (May-June) metrotransit.com/challenge/index.asp, Bike to Work Week sharetheroadmn.org/biketowork.html and bikewalktwincities.org, Walking Campaigns stepstoahealthiermn.org

Drive Easy Conserve
http://greenslowmovingvehicle.squarespace.com

Eat Local America (Aug.-Sept.)  eatlocalamerica.coop

Arbor Day-Tree Planting arborday.org, mnstac.org, treetrust.org

National Night Out (August) nationalnightout.org or mncpa.net

Encourage attendance at the Living Green Expo (May) livinggreen.org and Eco Experience (August) pca.state.mn.us
/ecoexperience, and the Green Gifts Fair (Nov.) doitgreen.org

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