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1. EcoNetworking for Sustainable Solutions
Corporate Sponsorship Opportunity 2013
Overview
EcoNetworking for Sustainable Solutions is a year-long series including12 events and
conversations hosted by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The series provides
opportunities for professionals to gather across industries, learn and exchange knowledge
about leading-edge sustainability practices, and uncover resources necessary for making
innovative advances in sustainability.
Events feature prominent subject experts presenting on subjects important to the development
of sustainable products and leading-edge practices while providing an opportunity for
professionals to share experiences and learn from the collective wisdom in the community.
The organic essence of these offerings furthers the proliferation of eco-innovation.
The Audience
The primary audience includes internal corporate green teams, upper-middle management
decision makers, social corporate responsibility teams, C-level executives, and leaders in
public and non-profit sectors who provide expertise and resources for conservation,
sustainability, and wellness. We draw on our vast connections through the business
community and University of Minnesota to provide depth, expertise, and relevant connections
throughout this series.
The Sponsorship Opportunity
Series Sponsors receive brand recognition at each of the 12 events and in all related event
promotion and marketing for the entire year-long series including an extensive and active B2B
social presence, print and other traditional media, and comprehensive day of the event
signage and other promotional opportunities.
As a Series Sponsor, you will be recognized on the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum’s
website as a corporate partner at the Corporate Sustainer level and receive all the benefits of
partnership that accompany this level. The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is seeking a few
great environmentally-focused partners in healthcare, retail, manufacturing, banking packaged
goods, agriculture, transportation, and others to partner and provide financial support in this
groundbreaking work.
Investment Levels
Annual Series Sponsorship $25,000
Individual Event Sponsorship $10, 000
Support and Element Sponsorship $3,000-$9,000
For more information contact Beverly Anglum | Corporate Relations Manager
anglu001@umn.edu | 952.443.1407

2. Eco-Networking for Sustainable Solutions
2013 Schedule of Events
Eco-Networking for Sustainable Solutions is a business-to-business networking series hosted
by the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. It is an invitation to the entire Twin Cities business
community to network at the intersect of divergent industries, ideas, and business practices. It
is an intentional exercise in the cross-pollination of ideas and leading-edge sustainable
practices to foster growth and eco-innovation.
Join the sustainability conversation, make important business connections and discover new
ideas and resources for implementing bold, practical, eco-friendly solutions.
Business Networking for Sustainable Solutions Kick-Off Event
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Topic: Sustainability – It’s what’s for Lunch
Business Networking for Sustainable Solutions
Friday, January 25th, 2013
Topic: Sustainability – Innovative Community Involvement - The ‘How Tos’ of Corporate
Community Giving Gardens
Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota Conference
Feb. 15th-16th, 2013
The goal of the Sustainable Farming Association is to help Minnesota farmers along the path to
success and self-sustainability. The focus of the 2012 annual conference is to bring together
rural to urban farmers in a joint effort to find solutions to farming and agricultural challenges
involving policy, regulations, economics, business practices, safety, networking, and to share
best practices. The conference will feature a variety of breakout sessions, speakers, and
exhibits on the different paths our farms and communities need to embrace to lead a more
sustainable existence.
School Garden Conference
Feb 22nd, 2013
Research shows that developing a child's appreciation of nature enhances their physical health,
cognitive and social development, and creativity. Discover how and why to transform schools'
extensive paved surfaces into a sustained vibrant mosaic of outdoor learning and play
opportunities. Explore innovative ways to weave curricula into school landscapes, diversify
educational recreational offerings, enhance local ecology, and reflect each school's location and
cultural context. This conference will share experiences, case studies, and best practices about
creating and sustaining cutting edge schoolyards and school gardens. Attendees will meet like-
minded colleagues while sharing ideas, and get inspired to bring these ideas back to their
communities.
Beekeeping in Northern Climates Workshop
March 2nd and 3rd, 2013
This two day course provides all the information necessary to keep bees in cold climates. We
take you through two years of beekeeping; purchasing and assembling equipment, ordering
bees and queens, hiving packages, ensuring colony survival through winter, dividing colonies in
the spring, and producing, harvesting, extracting, bottling, and selling honey. We also cover the
important basics of disease and mite management and control, emphasizing a reduction in
chemical use within bee hives. This unique workshop is taught by Marla Spivak (University of
Minnesota Entomology professor, MacArthur Fellow, and Distinguished McKnight Professor)
and Gary Reuter (University of Minnesota Scientist and President of the American Beekeeping
Federation).

3. Eco-Networking for Sustainable Solutions
2013 Schedule of Events, cont’d.
Spring Garden Expo
March 8th-10th, 2013
Learn more about growing, buying, and enjoying plants. Start your spring plant-growing
journey be joining in the conversation with nationally respected authors of gardening books
and have your books signed by the authors. Get down-to-earth gardening advice from leading
University of Minnesota horticulture experts and Arboretum experts on tried-and-true as well
as new research and testing results in growing plants. Enjoy time spent with other gardening
enthusiasts and talk with plant society representatives. Revel in what the Arboretum has to
offer during the first spring awakenings.
Business Networking for Sustainable Solutions
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Topic: Sustainability – What’s Wellness Got to Do with It?
Business Networking for Sustainable Solutions
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Topic: Bio-Inspiration for Business
Clean Water Summit
Sept. 15th, 2013
The annual Clean Water Summit brings together a wide variety of individuals, communities,
businesses, and organizations involved in maintaining clean water in our communities.
Featured presentations will address technical aspects as well as policy and planning
issues that are tied with the economic, social, and environmental impact of protecting and
achieving clean water. A focus is selected for the summit each year.
Business Networking for Sustainable Solutions
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Topic: Building a Sustainable Brand
Healthy Foods, Healthy Lifestyles Summit
First week of Oct. 2013
The safety, quality, and availability of the food that humans consume are constant concerns.
The Healthy Foods Summit seeks to examine the impacts of current food system approaches
on human health around the world. The symposium will identify critical points in the system
where intervention can improve human health, exploring both "conventional" and "sustainable"
approaches and seeking common purpose.
To this end, the summit will feature research and best-practice case studies that integrate
human-health research and food-system decision making. Speakers across disciplines and
from around the world will share knowledge and expertise and provide a framework for
coordinated, collaborative research and policy. Together, participants will address such
questions as how communities are engaging in creative strategies to improve their own food
environments, and what industry, academia, government, and non-profits are doing to
improve health outcomes across all populations.
Holiday Networking for Sustainable Solutions
Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013
Topic: Strictly Social – Using Social Media to tell an Eco-Story
For more information contact Beverly Anglum | Corporate Relations Manager
anglu001@umn.edu | 952.443.1407