Sustainability Roundtable

Better late than never...there is a community sustainability roundtable today at the Brookdale Library, 6125 Shingle Creek Pkwy, Brooklyn Center. A workshop for city staff is from 3 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., reception/networking from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and a community workshop from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The roundtable will discuss energy reduction initiatives, active living for better health, and much more. For more information visit the Alliance for Sustainability at www.afors.org

See you there!

A good cold day.

Temps in the 20's with snow and wind was not the best way to spend Saturday, Oct. 10th, but when you have 1,280 friends come to see you, I would call it a good cold day. We had a great turnout at our recycling drop off day, thanks to all who worked in the cold and thanks to all those that participated in a successful event. With that I concluded my spree of five Saturday clean up events from Sept. and Oct. that had me pretty worn down. This Saturday I think I'm going to sleep!

Drop off reminder, junk details

Please see my Sept. 30th post for information about our Special Material Drop-off event tomorrow, Oct. 10th.

Results are in from our curbside clean up in Brooklyn Park from Sept. 19th (we don't get the official results until we get the bill and now I have the bill). We recycled 960 appliances and 45 tons of scrap metal. We also collected 300 tons of bulky junk like couches, carpet, mattresses, etc. To put it another way we averaged 17 lbs. of scrap metal per household and 113 lbs. per household of bulky junk. Nice job Brooklyn Park residents!

And the winner is.....

The person who guessed 417 cans is 1st and the person who guessed 400 cans is 2nd. What am I talking about you may ask? I had a "block" of crushed aluminum cans at my recycling display this past Saturday at our Operations & Maintenance open house. The person guessing the closest wins a gift certificate to Girvan Grille, the next closest gets a free pizza from Godfathers. So how many cans were there? Exactly 427. Thanks to everyone who came to the open house and took a guess!