The Center for Sustainable Living

Help! Your CSL web master is now obsessed with brewing kombucha, a healthy-fizzy-fermented drink, and is looking for any gallon sized glass jars that anyone is willing to give away!
You can view all of the details of this request, plus post your own ad for anything you’re looking for, willing to trade, or willing [...]

Many thanks go out to Northfield Tractor and Equipment for donating tilling services to the Greenvale Park Community Garden! After much wet and rainy conditions, the soil was finally ready to be tilled.
Let the planting begin!

Many thanks go out to the 25 participants who came together for our first Northfield Commons Café! We all drew out pictures of our visions and dreams for community, and after sharing, we came up with our questions. Many thanks to Norman Butler, who brought it two bottles of wine to Tiny’s, yet [...]

“We are the leaders we have been waiting for.”
- David Korten, from The Great Turning - from Empire to Earth Community
Please join us tonight for our first of many Northfield Commons Café discussions. In these cafés, we will come together - ALL as leaders, to envision and create the community we wish to see [...]

A very large embrace of thanks goes out to all who attended last night’s Northfield Park and Recreation Advisory Board. With a room filled to capacity, citizens came out to voice their opinions on the proposed archery range construction, which would have claimed over 30% of the park, destroying the prairie grasses, wildflowers, and [...]

Meeting: 7:00pm; Tuesday, April 29, 2008; City Hall-Council Chambers
On Earth Day, April 22nd, the Northfield Planning Commission discussed a proposal from the Economic Development Authority to annex 530 acres of prime farmland west of the Municipal Hospital to make room for a future business park. While it should come as no surprise that Northfield is [...]

Greenvale Park Community garden for 2008 is full, with a waiting list! If you are interested in gardening with us in the future, you are encouraged to fill out an application and send it in (instructions on application, which you can download from this website.) Having applications from interested gardeners will help [...]

The Center for Sustainable Living will be holding its Annual Meeting on Saturday, March 22, from 2pm - 3:30pm at the Northfield Public Library. Come join us in the Community Room as we recap 2007, choose new board members, and set intentions for 2008!
We will be looking to fill vacancies on our board, and [...]

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We received a comment from our last posting, that we thought would merit its own blog entry. It seems that more agricultural land, this time adjacent to Big Woods State Park, is going before the Rice County Commission for possible re-zoning - to allow Hollywood Pyrotechnics to use the land for fireworks [...]

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Last April, The Center for Sustainable Living organized discussions and met with city consultants regarding the revision of the Northfield Comprehensive Plan. Citizens voiced their opinions at a town meeting to speak about land use and development. The Center for Sustainable Living has always been an advocate for the preservation of [...]