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Bloomington Commission on Sustainability outlines 2024 grants, tree‑planting and priorities for 2025
Summary
The Bloomington Commission on Sustainability reported funding $7,000 in grants in 2024, awarding neighborhood and working group grants, advancing canopy tree plantings and pilot recycling and composting projects, and setting housing/urban agriculture and education as 2025 priorities.
Justin Vassell, chair of the Bloomington Commission on Sustainability (BCOS), presented the commission’s 2024 annual report to the Common Council on Sept. 3, describing grants awarded, program activity and two strategic priorities for 2025.
Vassell said BCOS awarded $7,000 in grants in 2024 from two sources administered with Environmental Services Department (ESD) support: sustainable neighborhood grants and working group grants. Neighborhood awards included a $1,000 follow‑on TerraCycle project in the Covenanter neighborhood to collect hard‑to‑recycle materials and a $1,000 installation of a pre‑made native pollinator garden in Grand View Hills.…
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