The Center for Sustainable Living

We wanted to formally introduce you all to Ryan Doyle. Ryan will be a senior at St. Olaf College in the fall. He will be an intern with the Center for Sustainable Living this summer as part of St. Olaf College’s “Leaders for Social Change” program. Now before you think he’s going to [...]

Northfield is the town of “blogs” these days! A ‘blog - short for web log, is an ongoing diary or journal on the web, but most of you know that already.
Here are some interesting local blogs that we thought we’d highlight that have a sustainability or grassroots community organizing “bent” to them. This [...]

A small gathering of neighbors and friends are beginning to organize a group, the Friends of Lashbrook Park, to help maintain and enhance this park, which sits on the northwest corner of Northfield. If you are interested in joining these efforts to build Lashbrook Park into it’s full original vision as a passive prairie [...]

“We are the leaders we have been waiting for.”
- David Korten, from The Great Turning - from Empire to Earth Community
We hope you will join us for the first of many of what we are calling the Northfield Commons Café Discussions. In these open-space circle-based discussions, all are leaders and all are learners. [...]

Hello Neighbors,
I’m Amy Wilcox. I’m an old Permaculturist and a new CSL board member. Please check out the new Permaculture page tab to find out more about the subject. If you have any questions to ask or ideas to share, please post them to our new bulletin board

Despite very wet conditions up until the workday, and a start at noon instead of 9am, the Greenvale Park Community Garden Workday was a success.
On Saturday, May 3, gardeners put up new fencing for the expansion of the garden, marked off plot boundaries, and began to ready the garden for the 2008 growing season. [...]

A proposal to make about half of Lashbrook Park into an archery range is now before the Northfield Park and Recreation Advisory Board. The proposal was made by the Cannon Valley Sportsmen’s Club on September 11, 2007, and is almost ready for final action.
Lashbrook Park, the natural area on the Cedar-Greenvale corner, was [...]

Come enjoy the the 2008 Green Living Expo this weekend, May 3-4, at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. I was only able to attend the final hours of last years Expo, but I won’t make this same mistake this year.
This is the largest annual environmental event in Minnesota, offering [...]

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 [...]

Phew, it’s cold and wintry outside . . . the perfect time to start planning your summer garden! On February 1, the Northfield Community Gardeners will start accepting applications for participation in the 2008 Greenvale Park Community Garden! The garden is located just west of Greenvale Park Elementary School, on Lincoln Street.
Applications are [...]