Cascade Meadow Wetlands & Environmental Science Center
Cascade Meadow seeks to support a conversation about the health of our communities, which we believe include our built and natural environments, our economy, and our social lives.
We support this conversation by serving as a regional resource for education on water, energy, and wetlands, and by partnering with others who support sustainable living.
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Mission
Our mission is to establish Cascade Meadow Wetlands & Environmental Science Center as a regional resource for environmental education with an initial focus on energy, water, and wetlands.
Goals
We will serve as a catalyst for meaningful and enduring learning that promotes sustainable living now and for future generations by encouraging personal and organizational change, as well as fulfilling environmental careers. This will be accomplished by developing partnerships, relationships and an integrated program of curricula, exhibits, events, seminars, conventions and other resources for students, residents, visitors, and area business, government, education and medical communities.
Initiatives
The intent of Cascade Meadow's core program is to provide resources to raise the water and energy "literacy" of the citizens of southeast Minnesota. Everything about the facility - its exhibits, physical features, educational programming, even the building itself - is intended to enable citizens to make more informed decisions politically and as consumers of these resources. Programs will focus on
- The science of energy and water
- The ways that societies use and interact with those resources
- The ways that changes in technology and behavior can result in the sustainable use of those resources
Awards & Honors
LEED® PLATINUM CERTIFICATION
Presented in February 2012 to Cascade Meadow: This is the highest level attainable in the LEED certification program. At the time of the award, it was the first project in Rochester and only the ninth in Minnesota to be certified as LEED Platinum.
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