Morris Model

05/24/2024

Join the Morris Minnesota City Governments Minnesota Greencorps Member, Cameron Berthiaume, for a Boulevard Tree planting event on Tuesday May 28th from 4:30-7:30. The meeting location is Green River Park. From there teams will spread out across the city to plant trees on residential boulevards across the city. RSVP by contacting Cameron Berthiaume at [email protected] or by calling or texting 612-500-2885.

05/17/2024

This is a great opportunity for folks in Morris and across WC Minnesota to get their voices heard in regional economic and community development planning.

Join the West Central Initiative, the Morris Model, at UMN Morris on June 12th for this opportunity. Sign up information in original post and on West Central Initiative website.

Using the 17 Rooms process, west central Minnesota stakeholders will convene June 12, 2024, to plan, evolve, and scale localized actions to advance SDGs with greater coordination.

05/17/2024

Meet and learn more about Griffin Peck, the Sustainable Project Coordinator for City Morris. They explain the importance of a systems approach while working in the realm of sustainability.

04/11/2024

Here's an awesome opportunity for folks in the Morris Community who want a new Boulevard tree on their property.

02/22/2024

Exciting event series happening in Morris. Starting tonight at the Ag Country auditorium at the West Central Research and Outreach Center West Central Initiative and University of Minnesota Morris are partnering to bring you Morris Community Conversations; Towards a Positive Rural Vision.

The event is free for anyone to attend, but you must register here: https://wcif.org/community-conversations/

Tonight's event starts at 5:30 PM with a meal followed by an hour long conversation.

Tonight's speaker will be MN Secretary of State Steve Simon. The conversation will be moderated by Elizabeth Dunbar, editor of MinnPost. Tonight's conversation will focus on the intersections between democracy, rural leadership, community engagement, and climate action.

Later this spring...

On March 21st, Ben Wi******er, a nationally recognized researcher in rural leadership will discuss the ins and outs of the human capacity required to run a small town.

On April 22nd, Earth Day, Dr. Pete Wyckoff, Assistant Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Commerce will be here talking about climate action and the Inflation Reduction Act. Before returning to Minnesota to work with the department of Commerce, Wyckoff worked as an energy policy advisor in Sen. Smith's office and was instrumental in the passage of the IRA.

The series is comprised community conversations that tackle themes essential for our region —democracy, leadership, and climate action.

01/11/2024

https://www.morrismodel.org/post/revamping-morris-model-s-sustainability-strategy-unveiling-the-strategic-plan-2-0

It's with great excitement that I share the Morris Model Sustainable Strategic Plan 2.0 is now live!

With input from over 100 community leaders, organizations, local stakeholders, and everyday citizens- this plan is comprehensive in it's approach to enacting a rural sustainable vision for our community. Check out the full post on the Morris Model blog!

Starting in the summer of 2023, Griffin Peck, the Morris Model coordinator, initiated a planning effort to update and expand the scope of our sustainability strategic vision for the Morris community. Supported by community resilience funding from the West Central Initiative, Griffin collaborated wit...

01/10/2024

Over the last several months a Minnesota Greencorps Member has been serving with the city of Morris to explore green infrastructure improvements to how we manage our urban canopy, storm water system, and more.

Now it's time to learn more about residential green infrastructure behavior so we can create an educational outreach campaign based on the results.

HAVE A YARD? Minnesota Greencorps invites you to take a 3-7 minute survey about your lawn care, tree care, and winter maintenance habits and have a chance to win a Common Cup gift card!

Click the link below or scan the QR code to take the survey. Responses are accepted until February 29.
https://arcg.is/1Oivmv1

08/28/2023

Tomorrow, August 29th, The City of Morris, UMN Morris, and UMN WCROC will be featured in a story on Minnesota Public Radio. The story is a part of a larger series focusing on how MN will achieve its ambitious climate, energy, and resilience goals. The story will play during the MPR Morning Edition which is on air from 6 Am-8Am. The entire story will also be available on the MPR website.

The story focuses on how Morris is making progress in a variety of areas despite being in a rural community in west central MN.

The story will feature former city of Morris city administrator Blaine Hill and current Morris Mayor, Kevin Wohlers. The story will also feature city of Morris Sustainability Coordinator, Griffin Peck, UMN Morris's Troy Goodnough, Bryan Herrman, and Chacellor Janet Schrunk-Ericksen. The story will also feature Mike Reese and Joel Tallaksen from UMN WCROC.

08/26/2023

Tomorrow the City of Morris, Morris Model, and UMN Morris Office of Sustainability will be representing Morris at the Great Minnesota Get Together. We will be in the Eco Experience Building at the Greenstep Cities booth from 12-6 talking about clean energy, community resilience, organics composting, indigenous knowledge in sustainability, and so much more!

05/26/2023

Hey folks! If you follow us on Facebook (or if you want to) please note that we're going to be migrating to a new page soon and our current page (facebook.com/ PDTFoods) will no longer be updated.

Please like & follow the new page at Facebook.com/PommeDeTerreFoods.

What's going on? Well...it's a long, boring and convoluted story, passed down through generations of PdT volunteers and employees, but suffice to say it's important that we switch. Our new page will give us more control over our account, and enable us to do things like respond to messages, edit posts and interact with our followers. You know, things that are important for running a business! Please share this post to let folks know, and thank you for helping get the word out.

Luckily our Instagram account shouldn't be affected, so if you're seeing this post and you don't use Facebook then you don't need to do a thing.

05/08/2023

Morris Model Friends,

With the late winter we had and the beautiful spring weather we are now experiencing, why not take part in our annual tree planting event!

It will be on May 18th from 4 PM to 6 PM in Morris on the corner of Skyview Ln and Brook AVE.

The alternative date for this event if it rains on the 18th is May 25th.