A nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as a means of promoting both economic prosperity and environmental protection. A listing of efficient appliances is available in the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings, helping individuals and businesses find energy-saving products and showing how to use them most effectively. Their ACEEE Green Book ranks all cars and trucks according to environmental friendliness.

The Angry Trout Café, located in Grand Marais, is committed to operating in accordance with the concept of sustainability, striving to have a positive effect on our community economically, socially, and environmentally.

"Bioneers are an improbable collection of visionary innovators working with nature to heal nature and our relationship as human beings with the natural world." The conference offered practical solutions for our most pressing environmental and cultural crises, and left our hearts, minds, and souls spinning with new ideas. Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature, is available on their website.

“Save money and save the environment.”  Includes helpful information on the money-saving aspects of reducing your energy consumption. 

The Center for Informed Food Choices (CIFC) advocates for a diet based on whole, unprocessed, local, organically grown plant foods through personal and political tactics. CIFC believes that: placing these foods at the center of the plate is crucial for promoting public health, protecting the environment, and assuring the humane treatment of animals and food industry workers.

Co-op America is a membership organization, with much of use online for nonmembers. Its Green Business Program provides the networks, resources, and technical assistance needed for socially and environmentally responsible businesses to emerge and thrive in communities across the US. Participation in the program is fee-based on a sliding scale, and one’s business must first be screened.  Co-op America also helps individual consumers shift their spending to support green businesses and help build a green economy.  See the National Green Pages with its directory search of green businesses and products all over the U.S. See also Responsible Shopper, providing in-depth social/ environmental profiles on hundreds of companies. Compare companies and investigate industries.
https://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/greenpages/index.cfm
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/
 

 5 free email newsletters on earthwise living and on

different aspects of healthy living, with a focus on personal

health, multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) and toxins.

Sustainable products for Business, Building, Office and Home. 

Estimates how much productive land and water you need to support what you use and what you discard. After answering 15 easy questions you'll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to what other people use and to what is available on this planet. 

Quarterly publication ($28/year) featuring local food.  The website is focused on education about local foods and facilitating networking between individuals and organizations that are interested in local foods of the Twin Cities.