At paleBLUEdot we believe in the immense power of individuals to make positive change and lead lives of global integrity. We strive to inspire and empower by increasing awareness and creating opportunities for personal engagement. Our mission is to hasten the transition to a low/no-carbon economy, promoting and elevating the public discourse. paleBLUEdot's business and community client services include energy assessments and efficiency planning, sustainability consulting, GHG inventories and reduction planning, Climate Action Planning, product life cycle / carbon footprinting and comparison assessments, and carbon management consultation. Additionally, our community services offering includes conducting community-wide renewable energy resource identification, assessment, and analysis in support of community renewable energy policy and project development. paleBLUEdot is an ENERGY STAR service provider for Portfolio Management and provides consulting services for Minnesota Green Step Cities.paleBLUEdot is a Certified S/WBE

As a program of paleBLUEdot llc, BLUEdot Register was designed to provide individuals and businesses with the opportunity to understand their carbon footprint, find ways of making reductions, and ultimately to eliminate it entirely making them "carbon neutral". BLUEdot Register's business services include sustainability and carbon management consulting, as well as certified carbon offset sourcing to achieve BLUEdot Certified Carbon Neutral program for businesses, organizations, and products.Ted's role includes overall program design, implementation and management; renewable energy project development financing and sourcing; community educational program development; marketing and public relations.

BLUEdot Design exists to serve projects serving a mission. Motivated by an interest in building a better world, BLUEdot accepts commissions only for projects focused on environmental excellence, social equity, justice, or improvement of the public realm. Our clients include non-profit organizations, government clients, community organizations, and social/environmentally focused for-profit entities. In addition to traditional architectural programming and design, services provided by BLUEdot Design include: Net Zero, Minnesota B3, and Sustainability assessments and programming; Renewable Energy Feasibility and comparison studies; Renewable Energy system performance and financial modeling; Solar PV site and building optimization; solar insolation and obstruction assessments; Solar PV concept design and system design/build bridging documents; Building / Material Life Cycle Assessments, impact assessments, Greenhouse Gas Inventories, and carbon reduction programming; ENERGY STAR ServicesBLUEdot Design is a Certified SBE

Lake Superior Solar Finance operates the only Minnesota crowd investing portal supporting small scale equity investment for Solar PV Projects. LSSF is a "MNvest" equity and debt based crowdfunding portal supporting both Solar PV project developers and site owners looking for crowd equity financing solutions. We help Solar PV Project developers and site owners raise up to $5M in capital from the public using regulation crowdfunding. Our FinTECH approach can reduce friction, assure compliance and soon be able to offer a blockchain based distributed ledger to manage your stakeholders. This disruptive technology when combined with a mobile app will bring a new level of transparency to communications, voting, and a new liquidity market never seen before!

I am a national trainer for the Department of Energy's SunShot program. I this role, I provide solar photovoltaic training & education for design professionals. I provide training for architects and engineers to give them a basic technical understanding of PV systems, current policy information on photovoltaics (PV), community benefits of enhanced PV, the state of the market, and the roles of various market players in advancing PV deployment. In addition, I can provide training to architects on a range of tools available for the rapid exploration of the potential, effectiveness, and payback metrics of PV installations on any site in order to advance a discussion of the value of on-site renewable energy development with any client. Through this training, architects and designers can learn to determine optimum site specific solar installation locations, configurations, costs, performance metrics, and building/site development parameters all within the "front end"​ of a design project.

Industry-Leading. Award-Winning. Inspired.Established in 1915, Leo A Daly is an internationally renowned architecture, planning, engineering, interior design and program management firm. Our portfolio includes award-winning projects in 77 countries, all 50 states, and the District of Columbia. The firm currently employs more than 1,000 architects, planners, engineers and interior designers in 30 offices worldwide. It consistently ranks in the top largest architecture/engineering and interior design firms in the US, and is listed in BD World Architecture’s top 25 global practices. The Minneapolis office is a Leo A Daly center of excellence for: Federal Government projects, Civic/Local Government facilities, Healthcare facilities, Academic facilities, Corporate/Commercial, Indigenous Nations Civic facilities and Community Development, Manufacturing facilities, Grocery Distribution/Food Service Distribution Facilities, and Food Processing. The Minneapolis team consists of multidisciplinary expertise including Architecture, Interior Design, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Structural Engineering, and Civil Engineering.As Managing Principal of the Minneapolis Office, Ted is ultimately responsible for the vision, direction, and operations of the Minneapolis office. He is responsible for the firm’s commitment to the Client including its allocation of resources, its delivery of quality and overall performance. He is dedicated to facilitating strong leadership, integrating community engagement, and ‘possibility’ based decision making while employing his strengths in observing client systems/operations, identification of inconsistencies and opportunities for improvement, and for problem solving.Ted also leads the Minneapolis Office’s Corporate, Commercial, and Indeginous Nation Civic practice areas as well as supporting the programing and front-end design of the office’s Government project’s team.

BKV Group is a full-service architecture, engineering, interior design, landscape architecture and construction administration firm. Collectively, we represent a practice whose expertise is team-focused and offers a client-centered approach to creating architectural solutions. As a result of our full-service structure, we offer our clients a single source for all aspects of design and construction administration services. Our firm’s culture is based on a highly collaborative design model. We strive to cultivate client relationships where creativity can flourish, leading to architectural solutions that enhance and inspire our client’s program.BKV Group is an established leader in four primary practice areas—community development, corporate, education and government. Each practice area is led by BKV Group partners who are nationally recognized leaders in their respective fields. As President, Mr Redmond’s responsibilities include collaboration and consensus building within firm partnership on development and execution of firm vision and strategy, oversight of staff recruitment and development, oversight and coordination of interdisciplinary teams, and day to day corporate management and operations.

Mr Redmond leads our Government practice and Community Planning sectors. As Partner In Charge for the BKV’s Government practice, Ted’s responsibilities include business development and ultimate responsibility for client project outcomes on all government project types including Federal, State, County, and Municipal projects within the national market. Ted’s hands-on engagement includes client needs assessment programming and project/sustainability goal setting, leadership of concept planning and ‘front-end’ project design, multi-disciplinary design team leadership and coordination, project quality assurance, and project executive leadership through construction completion and owner occupancy. Ted’s leadership role includes primary client communications, as well as being the public “face” of government sector project development including facilitation of public presentations and community engagement campaigns.As Partner, Mr Redmond also leads BKV Group’s Community Planning work – a focus which integrates team expertise on public sector process and policy with design expertise in civic, community development, and multi-family residential projects. Mr. Redmond’s practice includes business development and project leadership on community based multi-purpose development projects within dynamic complex urban neighborhoods requiring significant community+developer collaboration.

The Whittier Alliance was formed by a small coalition of Whittier residents, businesses, agencies and religious institutions. It is a non-profit 501(c)3 neighborhood organization serving the residents and businesses of Whittier. The Whittier Alliance is a neighborhood resource. The Alliance responds to business and resident inquiries and facilitates meetings to inform the neighborhood about changes, developments, safety issues, neighborhood funds for property improvements, events, etc. that impact the livability and prosperity of the Whittier neighborhood.The Alliance prevails on the civic involvement of neighborhood volunteers. It is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors elected by the Whittier residents and businesses, and daily operations are performed by the Executive Director, Community Organizer and a part-time administrative assistant. The organization facilitates meetings, does outreach and provides resources to improve the livability, economic and housing status of the neighborhood. It also advocates on behalf of the neighborhood to governmental bodies. City-wide, the Whittier Alliance is respected for its ability to mobilize residents, businesses and organizations to voice their opinions and concerns in a manner that encourages collaboration and creative outcomes.The Whittier neighborhood is the most densely populated neighborhood within the Minneapolis/St Paul metropolitan area. It is home to over 17,000 residents and represents one of the most socioeconomically diverse communities in the Twin Cities.

The Community Issues Committee was the result of a re-structuring of the community activist committees of the Whittier Alliance. The re-structuring resulted in the consolidation of all activist committees into the Business Association and the Community Issues Committee. Ted was elected as the first chair of the newly formed Community Issues Committee and lead the development of the mission, focus, and format of the new community activist venue.The Community Issues Committee works to address issues of livability, housing, transportation and land use within the community. The meetings provide a townhall-like atmosphere and format for Whittier residents, property owners, and concerned citizens, to discuss current and future issues and their impact on the neighborhood. As one of the broadest and most active community activist venues, the Community Issues Committee also coordinates neighborhood cleanups, safety and block club activities, and other community building initiatives.

As one of the three primary activist committees of the Whittier Alliance, the Housing Committee was focused on the stabilization and improvement of housing stock and options within the Whittier neighborhood. The committee facilitated housing-oriented grants, functioned as the public venue for dialogue regarding housing and housing oriented development throughout the neighborhood, and engaged in public/private housing development partnerships to proactively improve housing options.