waste reduction

Green Your Office

Author
Ami Voeltz
Do It Green! Minnesota

Business-to-Business Mail

Businesses and institutions receive a great deal of unsolicited mail, such as catalogs and advertising mail for products and services of all kinds. Even when these materials are wanted, there can be a tremendous amount of waste and duplication. Do these sound familiar?

Resources

Web Resources

Reduce.org: www.reduce.org

 

 

Print Resources

Going Green: A Guide to Becoming an Environmentally-Friendly Business, 415-616-6800 or www.tub.com

EnvironMentors Advisor: Prevent Waste, Produce Profit, Contact North East Business Assoc. to receive a free copy: 800-657-3843 or 651-296-3417

Office Waste Reduction Kit & Source Reduction Manual & instructional video, Contact the MN Office of Environmental Assistance for a free copy: 612-789-4352 or 800-887-6300

 

Organizations

Cartridge Care - Ink Cartridge Recyclers
Roseville, MN 612-331-7757

Minnesota Technical Asst. Program (MnTAP)
McNamara Alumni Center
200 Oak St., Suite 350
Minneapolis, MN 612-624-1300
www.mntap.umn.edu

MN WasteWise
30 E. 7th St.
Suite 1700
St. Paul, MN 651-292-4650
www.mnwastewise.org

Sustainable Community Development: A new approach to meeting the challenges of communities

Author
Jennifer Hawkins
Graduate student at the University of Minnesota

According to the Office of Environmental Assistance, "a sustainable community can persist over generations, enjoying a healthy environment, prosperous economy and vibrant civic life. It does not undermine its social or physical systems of support. Rather, it develops in harmony with the ecological patterns it thrives in."A sustainable community meets its present needs without sacrificing the needs of future generations by developing attitudes and actions that strengthen its economic, environmental, and social frameworks.

Resources

NextStep - Minnesota Sustainable Communities Network

Communities By Choice

Metropolitan Council

 


Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and their Governments, Mark Roseland, Maureen Cureton, and Heather Wornell


Center for Neighborhoods
2600 E Frankin Ave
Minneapolis, MN 612-339-3480
Website

The Green Institute
1433 E. Franklin Ave.
Suite 7A
Minneapolis, MN 612-278-7100
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