About Us
The Living Green Expo is a free, annual event that provides information and products to help Minnesotans improve the environmental and social impacts of their day-to-day living. The Expo features over 200 exhibitors of products, services, and information, along with workshops on a variety of sustainability and green living topics. Expo attractions include music, art, food, demonstrations, and activities for youth and children.
Mission
The Living Green Expo is a family-friendly event offering products and educational resources to inspire people to lead healthier and more sustainable lives that improve our environment and quality of life. The Expo is working to create a world for future generations in which:
- Business operations and products are redesigned to interface benignly with the natural world
- Environmental values are integrated into economic and social systems and into people’s lives
- Healthy ecosystems and sustainable communities exist
Goals
- Connect Minnesotans with resources to lead a more sustainable life, with an emphasis on reducing environmental impacts.
- Expand the reach of "living green" actions, using event promotion and media coverage that shows these actions to be convenient, accessible, affordable, effective, and popular.
- Provide a positive networking opportunity for Minnesotans around issues of sustainability to connect those people and businesses working to bring sustainability into the mainstream.
- Build the market for small, local businesses and organizations providing environmentally preferable products, services and educational approaches; also build the market for environmentally preferable products from larger businesses, encouraging these and other businesses to increasingly incorporate environmental and social concerns into their products and operations.
- Operate the event in as environmental/sustainable a manner as reasonably possible.
Organizers
The Living Green Expo is a collaboration of government agencies, non-profit
groups and businesses seeking to promote sustainability-oriented products
and behaviors in Minnesota. The Prevention and Assistance Division of
the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is the main coordinator
of this collaborative effort.
Key staff are drawn from a myriad of environmentally oriented businesses, non-profit
groups, government agencies, and associations.
Coordination Team
- Vanessa Levingston, Project Coordinator, Living Green Team, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), 651-297-8286, vanessa.levingston@pca.state.mn.us
- Jeff Stuhr, Expo Manager and Exhibitor Coordinator, MPCA, 651-215-0218,
jeff.stuhr@state.mn.us
- Jeff Ledermann, Sponsorship Manager/Recruiter, MPCA, 651-215-0236,
jeff.ledermann@state.mn.us
- Communications/Media Manager
Pamela McCurdy, MPCA, 651-215-0230, pamela.mccurdy@pca.state.mn.us
- Jeff Ledermann, Workshop Coordinator , MPCA, 651-215-0236,
jeff.ledermann@state.mn.us
- Joan Heldt, Volunteer Coordinator,
MPCA, 651-296-8549, joan.heldt@pca.state.mn.us
- Matt Comstock, Attractions Coordinator, MPCA, 651-215-0244, matt.comstock@state.mn.us
Volunteers
Volunteers help make the Living Green Expo run smoothly by helping to set up and work at the event. More than 300 people gave their time in 2007.
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2008 Sponsors
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2008 Exhibitors