2009 Workshops

Buildings

• Aerated Autoclaved Concrete
  
• Designing and Remodeling a Nontoxic Basement
  
• Environmentally Safe Painting and Decorating
  
• High-efficiency Furnace Systems
  
• Home Energy Efficiency: Advanced Techniques
  
• How to Build and Remodel Green with MN GreenStar and LEED for Homes
  
• Pervious Concrete: The Water-Friendly Pavement
  
• Prefab Architecture and Green Design
  
• Reclaimed Building Materials: Cost-Effective, Cool, and Sustainable
  
• Residential Building Codes for Green Homes
  
• Septic Systems: The Sustainable Onsite Waste Water Treatment Option
  
• Small Is the New Green
  

Energy

• Do-it-yourself Home Energy Savings
  
• Energy Transition: Moving to a Carbon-free Future
  
• Low-tech Strategies to Save Energy with the Sun
  
• Small Wind Turbines: Benefits and Income
  
• Solar Electricity
  
• Solar Power 101: Discover How Solar Can Work for You
  
• Solar Thermal Water Heating
  
• The Federal Energy Stimulus and You
  

Food & Agriculture

• Backyard Chickens and Livestock
  
• Benefits of a Plant-based Diet
  
• Healthy and Sustainable Seafood
  
• Home Canning and Freezing
  
• Rediscover Traditional Foods
  
• Seed Saving from Your Own Garden
  
• Sustainable, Local, and Organic Food on a Budget
  

Household Products & Practices

• But I Already Recycle!
  
• Electronics Recycling and How to Buy a Green PC
  
• Green & Gorgeous: Tips for Choosing and Using Natural Beauty Products
  
• Maintaining a Pest-Free Home with Nontoxic Products
  
• Myths and Truths about Plastics and Other Common Household Items
  
• Worm Bin Mania: Reduce Your Waste with Vermiculture!
  

Lifestyles & Recreation

• An Eat-local Lifestyle: Real Stories from Real People
  
• Black and Brown Faces in America's Wild Places
  
• Green Travel in Minnesota
  
• How Nature Nurtures Your Child
  
• How to Green Events Large and Small
  
• Lake-friendly Ways to Manage Your Lakeshore
  
• Sustainable Hunting and Angling Choices
  
• Working Green in Minnesota: A Green Career Panel
  

Outdoor Living

• Cold Frames and Greenhouses: Getting a Jump on the Season
  
• Composting 101
  
• Healthy Yards, Healthy Lives
  
• Organic Lawn and Landscape Care
  
• Porous Paving Options
  
• Rain gardens: Benefits, Design, and Installation
  
• RoofBloom: Green Roofs in Your Own Backyard
  
• Stormwater as an Asset: Rain Harvesting Tips for Homeowners
  

Sustainability Education

• Alternative and Accessible Community Gardening Techniques
  
• Clean, Green, and Just: Opportunties in the New Green Economy
  
• Communities Cutting Carbon
  
• Greening Your Business
  
• How to Start a Community Garden
  
• Sustainability 101: Everything You Wanted to Know to Save $ and the Earth
  
• Ways to Empower Sustainability in You and Your Community
  
• Youth Environmental Movement: YEA MN
  

Transportation

• Competitive Commuting: The Fun of a Bicycle Commuting League
  
• Fueling the Midwest in a Carbon-constrained World
  
• How to Choose a Greener Car
  
• Shrink Your Transportation Carbon Footprint
  
• Winter Bike Commuting