Cigarette butts are the #1 littered item in the U.S. About a year ago, volunteers created a subcommittee called Help Make Rochester A Litter Butt Better! to increase awareness and change behaviors about cigarette butt littering in Rochester. The volunteers collected butts, posted stickers, distributed receptacles, and more. Click HERE to read the Summary Report of their progress to date.
The Rochester Art Center, in collaboration with Water Matters, invites you to participate in the upcoming photographic exhibition “Our Water Our Future.” The Work submitted should consider the importance of sustainable water quality on a local level and also water access as a universal human right. This exhibition is part of “Water Matters,” a year long program in the South Zumbro Watershed, and will be shown in conjunction with “The Women and Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration,” previously on view at the Katherine Nash Gallery in Minneapolis.
Artists may submit original photographs until Friday, September 24th at 5pm. Rochester Art Center staff will make selections from these submissions to print at larger scale. The exhibition will be on view November 19, 2010 -- December 19, 2010 at the new Cascade Meadow Environmental Sciences Center.
Submissions may be high-resolution digital images or unframed photographic prints (up to 8”/10”). Please include with each image: your name, date taken and location. Images submitted must be new, not previously created for another exhibition. Email submissions and framed work will NOT be accepted. All Submissions must be dropped off at the Rochester Art Center during public hours or mailed to:
Rochester Art Center, Attn: Water Rights
40 Civic Center Drive SE
Rochester, MN 55904
Deadline for submissions: 5:00 pm, Friday, September 24, 2010
For more information, please contact Education Coordinator Jason Pearson at 507-424-3308 or jpearson@rochesterartcenter.org
Were you one of the over 150 people who participated in the Rochester Pond and Garden Tour? Some fo the area's most beautiful and sustainable landscapes were on display during this educational and inspirational event. If you missed it, you can still visit the website and enjoy a virtual tour, check it out here!
Nearly 100 citizens voiced their concerns and shared their knowledge about storm water management in Rochester. This data will be used to help guide the process of updating Rochester's Storm Water Management Plan over the next several months. Click on each link below to view the corresponding survey data. Keep checking this website for further updates on this process.
Development and Construction Industry Professionals Survey Results
General Public Survey Results
Rochester Elected and Appointed Officials and Staff Survey Results
Non-Rochester Elected and Appointed Officials and Staff Survey Results