Do-It-Yourself

Bob Alf Construction (BAC) is an innovator in sustainable residential building and remodeling services. Choose from CONSTRUCTION COACHING if you are a Do-It-Yourselfer who simply wants some professional guidance or skills training. Or choose TRADITIONAL CONTRACTING if you want full service with a building-science oriented approach.

Natural Built Home is the place in the Twin Cities to get eco-friendly building materials. We have flooring, counter tops, zero-VOC paint, tile, cabinetry, insulation, dual-flush toilets and more. In addition to eco-friendly products we also offer installation services as well as project info for Do-It-Yourself folks. Stop by Natural Built Home and add some green to your home!

Sewtropolis is a DIY sewing studio and fabric store located in South Minneapolis. We have a large, spacious sewing studio equipped with everything a sewer may need, including the sewing machine. We offer fabric and patterns from such designers as Amy Butler, Heather Baily, Kaffe Fassett and more. Beginning sewing classes are offered for children, teens and adults. For those more experienced sewers we offer a Fashion Sewing Club hosted by the Material Girls. Join us during our monthly sit & Sews and get inspired to finish those unfinished projects. Sewtropolis can also accommodate small groups of sewers for such events as birthdays, Girl Scout troops and guild sewing events

Biodiesel, composting and even web design.  Sundays Energy will teach you how to do-it-yourself.  Sundays Energy Community Company (SECC) endeavors to bring together individuals and organizations that feel passionately about doing what they can to help the earth and the creatures living on it. Sundays Energy helps enable others to become part of this undertaking in their own unique way, to realize the personal and community-wide benefits from working and living sustainably. One part of this is Sundays Energy's role as a green business incubator. SECC provides a variety of services to aspiring environmentally friendly entrepreneurs. By joining with Sundays Energy, they will be immediately connected to a support system that can help with everything from business proposals to branding, and taking care of the many logistics necessary for a successful business to operate. Sundays Energy Community Company operates on many of the guiding principles of a cooperative: an autonomous association of persons united to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs & aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically controlled enterprise.” SECC is incorporated as a Corporation under Minnesota law and reports to a member-elected board of directors.