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Shoreview Green Community


The Shoreview Green Community is an effort, led by local Sierra Club members, to make Shoreview a model community for its environmental practices. The group began in 2005 and members have divided their focus into three areas: efficient resource use, transportation, and clean water.

The group's work in these areas evolved from the Shoreview Green Community Report released in November, 2005, which evaluated the city's performance as a Green Community so far, and set forth recommendations for improving local practices.

The campaign is part of the Sierra Club North Star Chapter's Sierra Communities campaign, a program which seeks to engage environmentalists and members in organizing around local conservation issues. For more information contact Margaret Levin at 612-659-9124 or .


What Can I Do? Energy-Saving Tips

Our Efficient Resource Use Committee has developed a comprehensive list of ideas for how you can save energy in your own home or business. Click the link above to learn more!


Transportation Committee Adopts Bus Shelter

Shoreview Green Community adopts bus shelter

The Shoreview Green Community's Transportation Committee, which promotes alternatives to auto transportation, recently adopted the bus shelter on Hodgson Road, just north of Tanglewood Drive. From left are Jay Thacker, Peter Berglund, Kathy Holmberg, Rae Anderson, Brita Ferris and Luther Dale. Read more!


Shoreview Sierra Club's Clean Water Committee Scores a Hit with Garden Tour


Shoreview Green Community

They came Saturday in the rain. They came Sunday under the cloudy/bright sky and sun. In all, nearly 150 people took the Shoreview Green Community Awards tour, August 4th and 5th, in Shoreview and along Lake Owasso in Roseville. Although most were from Shoreview and Roseville, the visitors came from 19 communities.

The objective of the tour was to teach residents how they can improve water quality by retaining storm water runoff in their own back — or front — yards. The seven winners' best management practices included rain gardens, shoreline and wetland buffers, a storm water retention pond and one permeable driveway. Four Sierra Club members exhibited their yards, as well. The average number of visitors per site was 73.

The tour was planned and conducted by the Shoreview Sierra Club's Clean Water Committee, with sponsorship by the City of Shoreview Environmental Quality Committee. Other sponsors included the Grass Lake Water Management Organization, the Rice Creek Watershed District and the Sierra Club North Star Chapter.

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photo: Sierra Communities Steering Committee Chair Roy Smith congratulates North Star Chapter Award recipients Sue Rengstorf, Susan Fuller, and Luther Dale at the December 2007 Solstice Party Sierra Communities Steering Committee
Chair Roy Smith congratulates North Star
Chapter Award recipients Sue Rengstorf,
Susan Fuller, and Luther Dale at the
December 2007 Solstice Party

photo: Volunteers Clear Buckthorn from the Shoreview Commons Area in June 2007 Volunteers Clear Buckthorn from the
Shoreview Commons Area in June 2007



photo: Shoreview Sierra Club members at a February 2007 showing of 'Inconvenient Truth' Shoreview Sierra Club members at a February 2007
showing of Inconvenient Truth.

photo: Jay Thacker and Scott Halstead share information about transit at the local 'Fresh and Natural' store, January 2007 Jay Thacker and Scott Halstead share information
about transit services and collect surveys at
the local Fresh and Natural store. - January 2007


 

Transportation Committee Works on North Suburban Bikeways

North Suburban Bikeways Proposal (pdf)

photo: More than 40 people attended \ More than 40 people attended "Biking in the 'Burbs"
in Roseville on May 16th, 2007

Take the Shoreview Wind Power Challenge

photo: Efficient resource group members go door to door for wind power on June 14th, 2006 Efficient resource group members go door to door
for wind power on June 14th.

Join our Shoreview Wind Power Challenge, an effort to sign up residents for the local utility's wind power program, and help us send a message to our elected officials and utility companies that citizens want renewable energy. For just a few dollars more on your monthly electricity bill, you can support the development of new wind turbines in Minnesota.

Click here for information about the Xcel Energy Windsource program.

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