We invite you to become active with your Local Community Coalition to
- volunteer with cleanups & hands-on habitat restoration projects,
- organize educational events to engage your neighbors,
- support your City Council & staff to set community-wide climate goals & make progress as a MN Greenstep City
- launch a Sustainability Commission with your City
- engage neighbors & businesses in sustainable behavior change
RCC also supports teams of volunteers to launch new successful citizen sustainability commissions. Please contact us to learn from successful local groups & to plan your next steps. Sean Gosiewski, RCC 612 250-0389 sean@rccmn.co GreenStep Best Practice Advisor for Community Engagement
MN Umbrella Citizen Coalitions with Local Chapters
- Resilient Cities and Communities
- A Legacy of Nature (Metro habitat restoration groups)
- Bike Alliance of MN Chapters, Committees and Local Organizations
- Citizen Climate Lobby local chapters
- Izaak Walton League (IKES) (local chapters) Brekenridge Ikes (Brooklyn Park) Austin #10, Bush Lake Bloomington, Cass County Walker, Gopher Statewide, Jaques Mahtomedi, Minnesota Valley Bloomington, New London, New Ulm #79, Owatonna, Prairie Woods Detroit Lakes, Rochester, W. J. McCabe Duluth, Walter J. Breckenridge Brooklyn Park, Wapashaw Wabasha, Wes Libbey – Northern Lakes, Will Dilg , Winona
- Minneapolis Green Team’s Coalition – directory and quarterly gatherings for neighborhood association environmental committees
- MN League of Women Voters local chapters
- MN Lion’s Clubs and MN Rotary Club Local Chapters (Climate Action Committees)
- Partners in Energy Communities – MN/WI Community Teams implementing community wide energy action plans
- Sierra Club NorthStar
- Transition Twin Cities – Transition ASAP (All St. Anthony Park, St. Paul) Transition Longfellow (Minneapolis) Transition North Twin Cities Transition Rochester (Rochester)
- Twin Cities Metro Climate Action – NE Metro Climate Action, West Metro Climate Action, NW Metro Climate Action.
- Wild Ones (restoring native plants)
- YIMBIES YES in my Backyard- Neighbors for More Neighbors (Minneapolis) Sustain St. Paul (St. Paul)
Metro MN Directory of Local Community Coalitions
Apple Valley Eco Advocates Facebook (Apple Valley)
Bloomington Sustainability Coalition
Think Again Brooklyns (Brooklyn Park)
Citizens for Sustainability (St. Anthony)
Cool Planet MN (Edina)
Heights Next (Columbia Heights)
Izaak Walton League (local chapters) Brekenridge Ikes (Brooklyn Park) Bush Lake Ikes (Bloomington)
Friends of Coldwater Springs (Minneapolis)
Friends of Lake Hiawatha (Minneapolis)
Friends of Minnehaha Park (Minneapolis)
Friends of Minnehaha Creek (SLP)
Friends of Minneapolis Parks (Minneapolis)
Friends of Orono (Orono)
Friends of Scandia Parks and Trails
Friends of Spring Valley (Eden Prairie)
Friendly Fridley (Fridley)
Green Minneapolis (Minneapolis)
Hastings Environmental Protectors (Hastings)
Heights Next (Columbia Heights)
Interfaith Creation Care South Metro (Dakota Co. Churches)
Mahtomedi Area Green Initiative (Dellwood, Grant, Hugo, Lake Elmo, Mahtomedi, Oakdale, Pine Springs, White Bear Lake and Willernie)
Make Plymouth Green (Plymouth)
Maple Grove Arbor Committee (Maple Grove)
Maple Grove Citizens for Sustainability (Maple Grove)
Marine on the St. Croix GreenStep Volunteers (Marine)
Minneapolis Green Teams Coalition (Minneapolis)
Minnetonka Climate Initiative (Minnetonka)
MN League of Women Voters (chapters)
MN Renewable Now (Minneapolis)
Nibi Walk (Prayerful Water Protectors)
NorthEast Metro Climate Action (NE Suburbs)
Northwest Metro Climate Action (NW Suburbs)
Neighbors for More Neighbors (Minneapolis)
Neighborhood Greening (Mendota Heights)
Resilient Redwing (Redwing)
Resilient Roseville (Roseville)
Richfield Social Justice Community (Richfield)
Rights of Mississippi River (Minneapolis)
Sustainable Stillwater (Stillwater)
Sustain St. Paul (St. Paul)
Seeds Feed (St. Louis Park)
St. Croix Valley Citizen’s Climate Lobby
St. Paul MN 350 (St. Paul)
Transition Longfellow (Minneapolis)
West Metro Climate Action (Mtka, Hopkins)
Wakan Tipi (Lower Phalen Creek Project, St. Paul)
Wilderness in the City (Eagan)