Minneapolis has goal of 12% carbon dioxide reduction by 2012

Minneapolis awards five more grants to help fight climate change

Minneapolis has awarded five grants of up to $10,000 each to help local neighborhoods and organizations fund creative ways to engage residents to fight global warming. The Climate Change Innovation grants are being awarded one month after the City awarded twenty smaller grants of up to $1,000 to neighborhood groups, churches, non-profit organizations and parks to support their efforts to curb climate change.

The 2007 grant awardees are Seward/Longfellow Neighborhoods, Linden Hills Power and Light, Alliance for Sustainability, Lyndale Neighborhood, and the Bakken Museum. Award winners will use the grant funds to creatively energize Minneapolis groups, residents, and businesses to take action. Each grant is a learning opportunity, because both the grant awardees and the City will benefit by learning how different approaches work to engage the community to combat global climate change.

To learn more about how award winners will use the Climate Change Innovation funds, visit http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/sustainability/ClimateChangeRFP.asp .

July 24, 2007


This is part of the City’s Sustainability Initiative to reduce the City’s carbon dioxide footprint 12% by 2012 with the realization that we all can and must play a part in reducing climate change.