Minnesota GreenCorps

The Minnesota GreenCorps program, an AmeriCorps program coordinated by the MPCA, aims to preserve and protect Minnesota’s environment while training a new generation of environmental professionals. Each year, the program places members with host site organizations around the state to help communities increase resilience to climate change by reducing solid waste and increasing recycling, reducing greenhouse gases and other air pollutants, reducing water runoff and improving water quality, encouraging eco-friendly behavior, reducing disproportionate negative impacts from pollution. Minnesota GreenCorps members serve their community, address critical environmental issues, and develop green job skills during their 11-month service term from mid-September through mid-August. Minnesota GreenCorps members educate community members and youth, coordinate multi-modal transportation events, remove invasive species, plant trees, install rain gardens, benchmark energy, conduct waste sorts, inventory trees, and more. These projects increase the resilience of Minnesota communities from the impacts of climate change.