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![Isaac Legred receives 2016 Environmental Leadership Award](https://mahtomedigreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/2016-MAGI-Award-470x140.jpg)
Congratulations to Isaac Legred, recipient of the 2016 Mahtomedi Area Green Initiative / Wildwood Lions Environmental Leadership Award. MAGI member Jeanne Zlonis presented the award May 11 at Mahtomedi…
![Maplewood Mall: Conservation hero?](https://mahtomedigreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/MALL-YES_71-400x140.jpg)
BY JULIE DRENNEN If you live in the East Metro, chances are you have been to the Maplewood Mall at least once – it’s a…
![Mahtomedi Go Round!](https://mahtomedigreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/BeachPhoto-470x140.jpg)
From Chautauqua Beach to Katherine Abbott to Wedgewood Park, our community has an abundance of outdoor recreational and historic resources — scattered like pearls here and…
![RITE of Spring](https://mahtomedigreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/55401e1ea2d84.image_-470x140.jpg)
Mark your calendar app! Mahtomedi’s own 10th Annual RITE (Really Into the Earth) of Spring event will be held Saturday, April 23, 9–12 at the Mahtomedi School District Education Center,…
![Area students "Race 2 Reduce" water use](https://mahtomedigreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/r2rupdate-470x140.jpg)
BY SARAH ALEXANDER There’s lots going on in Mahtomedi and White Bear Lake schools these days as students learn the “why” and “how” of caring for…
![A bike/walk-friendly community? Imagine that!](https://mahtomedigreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/nebikewalk-header01-e1457891130888-470x140.jpg)
BY MIKE BROOKS Planning and improving our communities to ensure people of all ages and abilities can safely walk and bike is a proven common…
![You never promised me a rain garden?](https://mahtomedigreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/raingarden4-470x140.jpg)
BY DENNIS LINDEKE We installed two rain gardens in our front yard in 2010. There is the beautiful “sunny” garden and the fern dominated “shady”…
![Planning safe routes to school](https://mahtomedigreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/SRTS_6inch_Color-470x140.jpg)
Every day it seems there’s a new report out about the benefits to mind and body of fresh air and exercise. For students, a perfect…
![Wildwood Tree Planting Wraps Up](https://mahtomedigreen.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/wildwood_trees-470x140.jpg)
By Jeanne Zlonis The tree planting on the new Wildwood Natural Playground is now complete! Seven beautiful Black Hills spruce trees were installed in October,…