Fall Living Green Tips – Eco Experience 2025
Garden
- Water Your Trees – Newly planted trees need 15-25 gallons of water once a week for the first 3 to 5 years
- Adopt a Tree/Brewing a Better Forest – water a newly planted boulevard tree in front of your house and get a free beer or coffee
- Plant New Trees – Minneapolis City Tree care for trees, free trees for green zone residents, financial help for removing hazard trees
- Minneapolis Fall Tree Sale with the Tree Trust
- Hennepin County Urban and Community Forestry works within communities to increase tree canopy resilience
- Get Trained and Volunteer as a Community Tree Steward with the MPRB and U of MN
- Mulch Leaves into Your Lawn
- Keep grass & leaves off street to protect creeks, rivers and lakes
- Adopt your Storm Drain
Home
- Schedule a Home Energy Squad Visit
- Get Home Energy Projects Done – decide your projects, get bids from contractors,
- Decide how to pay for the improvements/ line up incentives with your contractor and with CEE http://rccmn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Home-Energy-Project-Reference-Sheet-Corcoran.docx
- Access up to $2k IRA Federal Home Energy Tax Credits for projects completed by Dec 31 2025
- Enjoy Healthy Indoor Air – get a high quality room HEPA filter and follow these tips
- Renters can save energy too! Green Living for Phillips Renters Workshop Wed Sept 17 5:30pm Phillips Community Center, please RSVP
Community
- Connect with neighbors – become a Block Connector
- Join or Form a Community or City Green Team – Green Step Cities Best Practice #24
- Resources for City Sustainability Commissions and city staff green teams
- Join for form a neighborhood green team – and participate in the Minneapolis Green Teams Coalition
- Join or form a Suburban Community Green Team – directory of metro citizen climate coalitions and habitat restoration groups
- Attend Candidate Forums and ask environmental and climate questions
- The Peoples Minneapolis (Unidos) Mayoral Candidate Forum Wed, Sept 3 6 PM Sabathani Community Center –
- MN LWV Local Chapters organize City Council and County Commissioner Candidate Forums
- Help Achieve Your Cities Climate Goals – MN Climate Action Framework, Hennepin Co Climate Action Plan, Minneapolis Climate Equity Plan