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	Title	Contributor	Location
	Como Green Village Move-in/Move Out (MIMO) Project	Wendy Menken
	Thomson Reuters: Greening the Eagan Campus	Curt Schmidt
	Minnesota Water Sustainability Framework	Deborah Swackhamer
	Burnsville Sustainability City Initiative	Brett Emmons
	Go Blue! Diamond Lake Community Makeover	Alex Gehrig
	Edina Public Works Facility (Adaptive Re-use of the Con-Agra Foods building)	Brenda Dever
	Powderhorn Lake Neighborhood of Raingardens: A Citizen Based Approach to Stormwater Management	Samuel Geer
	Connecting Commerce and Conservation: Innovations in Land Restoration	Steve Hobbs
	Milan Sustainable Energy Utility	Shalini Gupta
	Big Sandy Water Institute	Lisa Kruse
	The Mustard Seed Garden Center	Mark Halla
	Como Green Village Student Involvement Project	Wendy Menken
	TARGET FIELD	Vince Vanella
	Minneapolis Saint Paul Solar Cities Project	Brian Ross
	Saint Paul Port Authority's Beacon Bluff Redevelopment	Libbie Krussow

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2011 Environmental Initiative Awards

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FINALISTS AND WINNERS OF THE 2011 ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE AWARDS!

An independent team of judges selected 15 collaborative environmental projects as finalists for the 2011 Environmental Initiative Awards. Of the 15 finalists, the judges selected one award winner in each of five categories, and from April 27 through May 6, you voted for a sixth winner. The project with the most votes was recognized as the 2011 Partnership of the Year and was awarded $1,000 to continue their work.

Congratulations to...

Mustard Seed Garden Center - 2011 Partnership of the Year Winner
Go Blue! Diamond Lake Community Makeover - Natural Resource Protection and Restoration Category Winner
Milan Sustainable Energy Utility - Energy and Climate Protection Category Winner
Powderhorn Lake Neighborhood of Rain Gardens - Environmental Education Category Winner
Saint Paul Port Authority's Beacon Bluff Redevelopment - Sustainable Communities Category Winner
Target Field - Green Business and Environmental Management Category Winner
...and all 15 finalists!

Click the names above to view the winning projects, and scroll down to click "Entries" to see all 49 nominated projects.

QUESTIONS? Contact Georgia Rubenstein at 612.334.3388 ext. 107 or grubenstein@environmental-intiative.org.

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