The Greater Northfield Sustainability Collaborative brings together participants from Carleton College and St. Olaf College and various community organizations to facilitate and coordinate sustainability initiatives in the greater Northfield area and to support implementation of the 2019 Northfield Climate Action Plan and Northfield’s commitment to the Minnesota Greenstep Cities Program.
Want to stay informed on local sustainability events and initiatives?
Through this website, we hope to provide the community with a central repository for Northfield Area sustainability activities.
- Contact us to sign the mailing list and receive the monthly GNSC e-newsletter highlighting local sustainability events and initiatives.
- Get news alerts from the city of Northfield on sustainability updates: click on “EQC Packets” in the Notify Me section, “Sustainability” in the News Flash section and “Sustainability” in the Calendar section.
- Listen to our podcast “Sustainable Northfield” for monthly listening about a variety of topics around sustainability and stories of the actions being taken in Northfield.
- Submit an event to have your organization’s local sustainability event be posted on the GNSC Events page and included in our monthly e-newsletter.
- Submit a resource to share the results of a local sustainability project case study and/or research findings on the GNSC Resources page.
Special thanks to the Minnesota Clean Energy Resource Team (CERTs) SEED Grant Program for helping to fund creation of the current GNSC website. Check out this article which highlights our CERTS grant project.
From The Northfield 2018 Earth Day Celebration