The Center for Sustainable Living

This weekend, April 20-21, The Center for Sustainable Living will be hosting a Permaculture Film Festival and an Intro to Permaculture Workshop. The Film Festival on Friday is FREE, and will be held at St. Olaf College. We will also be taking last minute registrations for the Introduction to Permaculture Workshop at the [...]

Our board of directors has grown to eleven members! The CSL would like to welcome our new officers and Board of Directors for 2007, who were elected at our Annual Meeting on Sunday, March 18, 2007.
Dan Borek, Co-Chair
Rose Ann Steenhoek, Co-Chair
Olivia Frey, Secretary
Joey Robison, Treasurer
Aidan Curry
Herb Frey
Jared Cooper
Scott Schumacher, Webmaster
Brian Conlan
Theresa Zeman
Lynne Reeck

The Center for Sustainable Living will be bringing a Permaculture Film Festival and an Introduction to Permaculture workshop to Northfield! Guy Trombley and Paula Westmoreland of the Permaculture Research Institute, Cold Climate will be presenting these events on Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21.
Permaculture is defined as “the conscious design and maintenance of [...]

In an ongoing effort to bring people together around issues of sustainable living, economic justice, and community well-being, the Center for Sustainable Living will be hosting Monthly Sustainability Discussions at the Northfield Public Library.
Please join us for our first of many discussion groups, Thursday February 15, from 7:30 to 9pm at the Northfield Public Library’s [...]

Farmers MarketOriginally uploaded by The Center for Sustainable Living

The Northfield Farmer’s Market is in full swing as Summer reaches its middle. New this year is a Monday evening market on Highway 3, in the South Gate Cinema parking lot. Farmer’s Markets are a great way to buy local food grown in the community [...]

In an effort to place aid in the hands of the many poor and low-income survivors of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Center for Sustainable Living is organizing a “compost fundraiser”, much like we did in an effort to respond to last December’s tsunami. Donations collected in compost buckets in the next coming [...]

Kristen Melby, a bicycle composting volunteer, speaks with Northfield PPG member, Sharon Gates-Hull

2004 was an exciting and challenging year for the Center for Sustainable Living. The Community Composting Project and the meeting room at 313 Division Street continued as our two primary projects. Work onthe Free School, a project new to the Center, [...]

Greetings! We’re doing a little bit of a redesign of our website and online resources. Check back soon to see how you can get involved! We will be updating our pages on Community Composting, Community Organizing, and resources for sustainable living in Northfield and Minnesota!