With the MN350 Barter-to-Cash Network project well underway, we’re now beginning to reach out to the community in search of your talent, time, and underused belongings. We have set November 30th as our official launch date for the online platform, just in time to give it a publicity jumpstart at Bill McKibben’s “Do the Math” event on the same day. (Do you have your ticket yet?) Alongside my work in configuring the Barter-to-Cash Network, I [...]

Hello! I am so excited to introduce the MN350 Fabulous Four team.  This group of talented, energetic and committed women consists of three college student interns and one paid position.  Carly, Claire, Patty and Patricia each have a focused project that they are undertaking in the next few months for MN350 as well as joining in building the climate movement as needed.  Take a look at their blogs and keep checking back as they will be [...]

Patricia Lamas Originally from Port Townsend, Washington, Patricia is a 2012 graduate of St. Olaf College with a self-designed major, Social Marketing and the Environment. Interested in both design and psychology, she is focused on answering questions of public perception and motivation surrounding the environmental movement. While at St. Olaf, she worked with the Residence Life department to bring sustainability education into the residence halls through peer-to-peer programming. She joined the MN350 team in the fall of [...]

Claire Krebs Claire is currently studying at the University of St. Thomas and is double majoring in Psychology and Environmental Studies.  With these two majors, she has the objective to change human behavior to be more sustainable, conservative, and environmentally conscious.  As one of her favorite professors once said, the world’s “environmental problems” are not actually problems with the environment, but are problems with human behavior–which can only be absolved by addressing social issues and [...]

Carly Dent Carly is a student at the University of St Thomas in St. Paul, MN with a double major in Environmental Studies and Psychology. After taking a month long course of Conservation Psychology in Germany, Carly knew she wanted to study not only the environment but also how the human mind and actions relate to it. As an intern for MN350, she will be working in the area of communications and social media. Through [...]

Patty O’Keefe Patty  is currently attending the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, working towards a B.S. in Youth Studies.  In the last couple years she has developed a growing interest in environmental studies, which resulted in her decision to pursue a career path in environmental education.   Patty’s internship will surround youth engagement strategizing and coordinating for MN350.  Her hope is that she can use her passions for youth work and the environment to help give [...]