Share and Voice: Living Green in Minnesota

Living Green


May 2-3, Minnesota State Fair Grounds
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Living Green Expo is a free, annual event that provides information and products to help Minnesotans improve the environmental and social impacts of their day-to-day living. The Expo features over 200 exhibitors of products, services, and information, along with workshops on a variety of sustainability and green living topics. Expo attractions include music, art, food, demonstrations, and activities for youth and children.

Mission

The Living Green Expo is a family-friendly event offering products and educational resources to inspire people to lead healthier and more sustainable lives that improve our environment and quality of life. The Expo is working to create a world for future generations in which:

• Business operations and products are redesigned to interface benignly with the natural world
• Environmental values are integrated into economic and social systems and into people’s lives
• Healthy ecosystems and sustainable communities exist

Goals

• Connect Minnesotans with resources to lead a more sustainable life, with an emphasis on reducing environmental impacts.
• Expand the reach of "living green" actions, using event promotion and media coverage that shows these actions to be convenient, accessible, affordable, effective, and popular.
• Provide a positive networking opportunity for Minnesotans around issues of sustainability to connect those people and businesses working to bring sustainability into the mainstream.

• Build the market for small, local businesses and organizations providing environmentally preferable products, services and educational approaches; also build the market for environmentally preferable products from larger businesses, encouraging these and other businesses to increasingly incorporate environmental and social concerns into their products and operations.
• Operate the event in as environmental/sustainable a manner as reasonably possible.

Organizers

The Living Green Expo is a collaboration of government agencies, non-profit groups and businesses seeking to promote sustainability-oriented products and behaviors in Minnesota. The Prevention and Assistance Division of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is the main coordinator of this collaborative effort.

Key staff are drawn from a myriad of environmentally oriented businesses, non-profit groups, government agencies, and associations.

The site stated the following:

We need your help. The event has enjoyed extended success thanks to efforts by partners and volunteers in the community to spread the word and promote using posters, brochures, newsletters, and stories generated by the local media. We're hard at work generating buzz for 2009! You can help:

• Hang a poster at your business.
• Post a mini ad on your website.
• Print a newsletter article with graphics in your next newsletter.
• Give flyers to your friends and clients.

This website is the resource for all information printed on this page and has more additional information about the event! So print out one of the printable event flyers are available for free you just have to sign up quick and they will send them to you to hang in your office, around your school etc. There are several different variations of the flier, one is posted above!


Click here for additional information on the event web page!

Click here for photos from the 2008 event!