Updates: 

Check out this great opportunity from the Natural Step!

The Natural Step Canada is offering comprehensive trainings in Toronto, Banff and Whistler, Canada.  

Click here to visit their website for more information. 

STP is very excited to announce the members of the 2012 Early Adopters cohort!

Lake Superior Zoological Society


Fond du Lac Ojibwe School


City of Duluth


Congratulations to each of these organizations for committing to sustainability and taking action!

Over the course of the next 6 months these 3 organizations will receive comprehensive and strategic training in sustainability and will create their own course of action to achieve their goals. This is the beginning of a very important process that these organizations have committed to. We are excited to be working with them.


Sustainable Twin Ports Receives Civic Engagement Award! 

Sustainable Twin Ports is proud to announce that we are the recipients of the 2011 Touchstone Award for Civic Engagement from the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation!!!

Thank you to the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation and all of the nominees for your important work in our community!


2011 Early Adopters:

Clyde Park:

Clyde Iron Works Restaurant 

The Boys and Girls Club

Duluth Children's Museum

Duluth Heritage Sports Center

Common Ground Construction 

Duluth Housing and Redevelopment Authority 

Spirit Mountain


2010 Early Adopters: 

 

Early Adopter Project
Outcomes:

Case Studies

Posters

Webinar

Welcome to SustainableTwinPorts.org

Community - Environment – Economy – We believe everyone in the twin ports of Duluth, MN and Superior, WI values the health of all three.  Sustainable Twin Ports has decided to move from belief to action by teaching our neighbors, businesses and public entities how to take meaningful steps toward sustainability.

Sustainable Twin Ports is dedicated to furthering economic, environmental & social sustainability in the Twin Ports and western Lake Superior region through education, networking and action.

We all make hundreds of decisions every day, all day long.  While most of us consider the economic side, few stop long enough to consider the effects of those decisions on the Environment, or on other People.  We’ll show you a method for making those decisions through the 'lens' of sustainability principles, based on The Natural Step framework.

By working together, we can create transformational change toward a healthier community, a healthier environment and a healthier bottom line.

Interested in learning more?

Download the STP 2011 Handout

 

What is "Sustainability"?

"Development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
~ Brundtland Commission Report, 1987

"A state in which society does not systematically undermine natural or social systems within the biosphere."  ~ The Natural Step USA