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Green Partners: Telling your project story

Hennepin County Environment and Energy

Agenda

• Overview of where to find reports and resources

• Why measure outcomes?

• Planning for outcomes reporting

• Case study

• Storytelling


Environmental outcomes tracking

• Tally how many cups saved

• Put a bread tag in the cup that matches how you got here

• Weigh the waste and share results

• Draw a picture of reused clothing items

• Count how many bags were reused


Let us know if you are using a reusable beverage container

Post in the chat


Environmental education website


Search: Hennepin County environmental education

www.hennepin.us/environmentaleducation

Due to COVID-19• Tours are on hold• Kits are not currently available• Talk to your grant advisor for resources

http://www.hennepin.us/environmentaleducation


Search: Hennepin County Green Partners

www.hennepin.us/GreenPartners

Green Partners website: Information for current grantees

Green Partners website: Information for current grantees


• Reporting documents • Orientation presentations• Additional resources

Updated report due dates• Discussion report due November 30, 2020• Budget report due August 31, 2021• Written reports due September 30, 2021

Why measure outcomes?


Outputs & Outcomes

Outputs • What we did.

• What our participants did.

Outcomes• What difference did it make?


Disposable plastic water bottle littered in the bushes on Earth Day with the message “Save the Earth”.

Outputs & Outcomes

What we do Who we reach

• Host planning meetings

• Develop curriculum• Create resources• Train team leaders• Conduct and attend

workshops• Facilitate• Partner• Work with media• Communications

• Participants• Neighbors• Youth• Parents• General public• Agencies• Decision makers


Outputs – What did y’all do?

Photo selfie with Minnesota Water Stewards in the background planning campaigns and outreach

Outputs & Outcomes

Short-termresults

Mid-term results

Long-termimpact

• Knowledge• Awareness• Attitudes• Skills• Opinions• Aspirations• Motivation

• Practice• Action• Behavior

changes• Decisions• Social

action

• Environmental• Social• Economic• Civic• Policies• “A new

normal”


Outcomes – What difference did it make?

Minnesota Water Stewards and neighbors rake leaves and sweep streets around storm drains

Planning for outcomes reporting


Planning for outcomes reporting

• Which indicators of change will you track?

• How will you track changes?

• When will it happen?

• Who will make it happen?


Environmental action outcomes report


What indicators of change will you report on?


Household energy use

• Number of sign-ups for renewable energy programs

• Number of people line drying laundry

• Number of home energy audits

• Calculate energy savings from changes at home

Energy and airTransportation

• Miles/trips by foot, bike or bus instead of car

• Number of trips via car/bike/scooter share programs

Energy and food

• Amount of food grown locally

• Amount of food purchased from local sources


Pollinators

• Square feet of lawn converted to pollinator plants

• Number of pollinators counted (before/after)

Trees

• Number of new trees planted

• Number of trees pruned

Green cleaners and natural resourcesGreen cleaners

• Number of green cleaners used at home

• Number of green cleaners purchased

Household hazardous waste

• Number of broken electronics repaired

• Number of items (CFLs, laptops, etc.) recycled at a legal collection site or retailer


Recycling and organics composting

• Number of people that started recycling at home

• Number of residents signed up to recycle organics

• Number of people trying backyard composting for the first time

• Measure how full organics, trash, and recycling bins are each week

WasteWaste prevention

• Number of reusable bags used for grocery trips

• Number of reusable bags filled on non-grocery shopping trips

• Number of used items purchased (bikes, skates, clothing, sports equipment, etc.)

• Amount of waste prevented (plastic forks, cups, bags, etc.)


Waste sort tracking


How will you track change?

• Measurements

• Checklists/tallies



• Observations

• Interviews



Be creative – use rocks, marbles, stickers, social media, conversations….


When and who will track changes?

• Identify who will collect outcomes data

• Schedule reporting dates

• Follow up with participants to collect reports if needed


Case study

Alliance for Sustainability’s Adopt-a-Storm drain project


The Alliance: What did they do?

Held planning meetings with project partners

Hosted a storm drain clean up event

Gave out leaf bags/maps

Held a pancake breakfast education eventKnocked on 400 doors to sign people up

Hosted rain gardens tour Tabled at events

Neighbors: What did they do?


• 30 neighbors participated in storm drain clean up events

• 73 neighbors pledged to rake leaves from the street

• 75 neighbors signed up to adopt a storm drain

Neighbors promote practices to protect water

The outcome: What difference did it make?


• Neighbors cleaned out 60 storm drains• Neighbors removed 70 bags of trash from streets that drain

to Lake Hiawatha and the Mississippi River• 75 neighbors adopted a storm drain (we don’t know what

happened after that, but you could build in a way to find out)

The city gets reports from residents who clean out their adopted storm drains. Residents receive email updates from the city.

Questions?


• Which indicators of change will you track?

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Storytelling

Share your project stories!


Anecdotes and stories

• Stories about participant experiences

• Participant created art (music, visual arts, etc.)

• Presentations created by participants

• Photos or videos of project activities

• Social media interactions


Discussion report


• Small focus group

• Choose one action

• Dig deeper and guide participants in identifying what is holding them back

• Initial responses don’t always uncover the actual barriers


Discussion report

• Tell us about your focus group audience

• What barriers did they bring up

• Based on what you learned, what strategies will you use or what will you focus on

Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy

• Updated CEED’s Energy Justice curriculum materials and created a facilitation guide

• Facilitated culturally appropriate, interactive community workshops on home heating and electricity

• Developed two workshop backpack toolkits “Power Pack” and “Heat Pack”



• Engaged more than 270 people in 16 workshops

• Participants already take action to save energy at home, mostly to save on their heating and electric bills

• Families in the audience cannot afford higher bills and believe it is important not to waste resources to protect our communities

• If they control it, many keep the temperature low and use extra blankets or space heaters in winter



• Some people had implemented their own solutions such as blankets in winter, fans in summer

• Most participants were aware that weatherization supplies are available

• Most participants didn’t know• Which supplies would be best (and

didn’t want to waste money)

• If they could install them properly

• If the cost and effort to install them would be worth it


Project Sweetie Pie

• 10 community gardens in North Minneapolis

• Hands-on, train-the-trainer sessions for “Compost Captains”

• Worked with garden managers to upgrade composting processes

• Added 9 new compost bins at community gardens

• Managed the compost over the summer

• Partnered with neighborhood groups to host events

• Hosted a “State of the Garbage Compost Summit”


Project Sweetie Pie


Youth and Compost Captains spoke at the “State of the Garbage Compost Summit”


Project Sweetie Pie

Freshwater


Minnesota Water Stewards volunteer training program

• Training on water issues, water management, water policy, and community engagement

• Capstone project

• Outreach campaign

Minnesota Water Steward outcomes website

https://masterwaterstewards.org/by-the-numbers/

Off the Blue Couch

North Hennepin Community College project, 2014


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0bIMNdP__o&feature=share&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Do0bIMNdP__o%26feature%3Dshare&app=desktop

Off the Blue Couch


Off the Blue Couch


Get on board and recycle today


https://offthebluecouch.org/rusty-%26-the-crew

https://offthebluecouch.org/rusty-%26-the-crew

Data, visuals, stories


Patience CasoGreen Partners grant [email protected]

Environment and Energy Department701 4th Avenue South, Suite 700Minneapolis, MN 55415


Facebook: Hennepin EnvironmentTwitter: @hennepinenviroYoutube: Hennepin County MN

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