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Business & Environment Session – Telling Your Sustainability Story: Balancing Privacy and Transparency

Aveda Corporate HQ 4000 Pheasant Ridge Drive NE, Blaine

While greater transparency in sustainability communications is becoming the new normal, guarding trade secrets is still important and getting the information needed to be transparent can be a challenge. At this session, we'll hear about the new organization Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and emerging trends in reporting and sustainability communications that will impact companies... Read more »

$45 – $80

Watershed Summit 2014: New Management Strategies & Targets for Water Quality/Quantity

Normandale Community College Partnership Center 9700 France Ave. S, , Bloomington, MN

Minnesota has identified the need for Groundwater Management to assure sustainable aquifers to meet Minnesota’s water needs and for Nitrogen and Nutrient Reduction Strategies and targets to halt pollutant loads to our rivers and the Gulf. Groundwater management practices in response to potential mining projects, silica sand mining, well intervention, and adequate water for business,... Read more »

Networking in the Environmental Field

Anderson Center at Hamline University 774 Snelling Avenue North, St. Paul, MN

Join the Women’s Environmental Network and Hamline University for our popular annual networking only event! Co-hosted by the Hamline University’s Center for Global Environmental Education. Meet one-on-one with our event sponsors. See how their positions relate to and intertwine with the environment. Find out what it takes to perform their job and what courses in... Read more »

Lecture: ‘Dwindling Groundwater Reserves as Viewed from Space’

Dr. Jay Famiglietti, a hydrologist at the University of California, Irvine and senior water scientist at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will present two lectures on research he leads that analyzes data derived from orbiting satellites operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Free

Measuring groundwater from afar

On Thursday, Sept. 18, Jay Famiglietti, a University of California Irvine professor, will give a fascinating lecture on measuring declines in groundwater around the world through data collected by orbiting satellites. The two NASA satellites detect changes in the gravitational attraction of regions across the Earth. Groundwater seeping into aquifers or being pumped our of... Read more »

Free

Minneapolis 2015: A Last Stop before Paris

Raddison Blu Minneapolis 35 South Seventh Street, Minneapolis, MN

On Sunday, October 25th 2015, PfC together with Citizens’ Climate Lobby will convene a globally-networked discussion on the impact of climate change on communities, the role of citizens in driving change and the catalytic solutions to securing the liveable climate future. This initiative is the first in a series of dialogues that will establish a process... Read more »

WATERSHED SUMMIT 2016: Policy to Action – Accelerating Conservation Solutions

Normandale Community College Partnership Center 9700 France Ave. S, , Bloomington, MN

The 2016 Watershed Summit program outline: Recognition of Certified farmers and their stories; Past and Future of Minnesota’s Watershed Management; Trends that emerge from Governor Dayton’s “Water Summit”; MPCA Nutrient Reduction Strategy status and outcomes; Watershed projects accelerating conservation solutions

$15 – $50

FMR’s premiere of “Rebirth: The Mississippi’s National Park” on TPT

Learn about the Mississippi River’s only national park located in the heart of the Twin Cities by tuning into TPT's showing of "Rebirth: The Mississippi's National Park," which airs Sunday, May 1 at 7:00pm CT.Produced for FMR by award-winning local filmmaker John Kaul and narrated by 89.3 The Current's Steve Seel, this 30-minute documentary tells... Read more »

2016 Environmental Initiative Awards

Nicollet Island Pavilion 40 Power Street, Minneapolis, MN

Join over 450 environmental leaders to celebrate Minnesota's most innovative and inspiring environmental success stories. Eighteen finalists will be honored and winning projects across six categories will be announced “Academy Awards Style” at the Environmental Initiative Awards dinner on Thursday, May 26. Join us for an inspiring night of networking and celebration. The evening includes... Read more »

Building Minnesota’s Climate Action Plan

Science Museum of Minnesota 120 W. Kellogg Blvd., Saint Paul, MN

Climate Solutions & Economic Opportunities Analysis: What We Learned and What's NextJoin us for a presentation and discussion with the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board about climate action planning to meet state greenhouse gas emission goals. We’ll explore immediate actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, long-term strategies that could be started now, and pilot programs to... Read more »