As the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this Wednesday, April 22, the Lilja Communications team has had to adjust our traditional celebration in the wake of COVID-19. Our traditional Earth Day At Lilja Communications, we have long marked Earth Day by cleaning up our own little corner of the world. Our celebration traditionally starts with a healthy, meat-free potluck lunch to fuel ourselves for an afternoon outdoors. From vegan Beyond Burgers to organic sala

America Recycles Day was started by Keep America Beautiful with the goal of promoting and celebrating recycling in the United States through various events and the #BeRecycled pledge. To celebrate this year, we thought we’d share some of our recycling and sustainability tips! Photo by Mel Poole on Unsplash Kate: Don’t be too hasty to get rid of your packaging. Keep a box of materials on hand for those moments when the kids are bored or you’re feeling crafty. It’s amazing what

When our longtime client Tetra Pak told us they wanted to create a one-of-a-kind event bringing together their employees, their families and the community to celebrate and promote sustainability, we were delighted to help build this event from the ground up. “The whole idea behind GrowXGood Fest is to bring employees and their families together in an immersive way to celebrate sustainability. We have a lot of activities to get our employees more engaged, not just with what we

Today members of the Lilja staff are participating in the Global Climate Strike, including marching on the capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota to show support for climate action. In over 150 countries, people are stepping up to support young climate strikers and demand an end to the age of fossil fuels. Follow the action at #ClimateStrike! You can also participate in the digital Global Climate Strike. #climatestrike #climatestrike #climateaction #sustainability #mission #purpose

Earth Day at Lilja Communications usually means two things: potluck and trash cleanup around the ponds that surround our office. Weather only delayed our celebration by two days this year! On Wednesday afternoon we all gathered around the conference table for a meat-free feast of veggie burgers and corndogs, salads and guac to kick off and fuel our Earth Day celebration. After lunch, it was time to pick up trash. Armed with gloves and plenty of garbage bags, we found lots of

In early May, the Lilja office held our annual Earth Day cleanup – no typo there! The prolonged Minnesota winter pushed back our plans by a few weeks, but we were happy to have a beautiful day to get outside, roll up our sleeves and clean up our little corner of the planet. And it got me thinking again about conservation and sustainability, and how we can communicate effectively about this scientific yet emotional topic. Recently, I attended Climate Generation’s Talk Climate

Lilja Communications is deeply committed to sustainability. We have helped develop and support sustainability communications for our clients, and we embrace sustainable practices ourselves. We are proud to be part of “We Are Still In,” composed of more than 2,500 leaders, including CEOs, mayors, governors, college presidents and others committed to climate action and the principles of the Paris Agreement. Each year, the Lilja team commemorates Earth Day by picking up trash ar

Earth Day is just a few days away, and that means sustainability is in the news and on the mind. Why not take advantage of this momentum and develop a sustainability policy for your business? As businesses recognize the benefits to their bottom lines, they are stepping up as leaders in sustainability – in ways both large and small. While you might think your business is too small to make a difference, the reality is that you’re never too small to enact changes and do your par

This morning, Wednesday, October 12, I presented alongside other local storytellers and sustainability professionals at the Environmental Initiative’s Sustainability Storytelling: Going Beyond the Report workshop. As I prepared for this exciting event, I thought about what makes effective stories – especially in the sustainability sphere. Messages are often complex, our subject matter can feel weighty and the steps to live a more sustainable life can sometimes seem austere. E

On Wednesday, October 12, I will present alongside other local storytellers and sustainability professionals at the Environmental Initiative's Sustainability Storytelling: Going Beyond the Report workshop. As I prepare for this exciting event, I’ve been thinking about what makes effective stories – especially in the sustainability sphere. Messages are often complex, our subject matter can feel weighty and the steps to live a more sustainable life can sometimes seem austere. E

The Great Minnesota Get-Together is full of time-honored traditions, from celebrating the end of summer by eating weird food on a stick to trekking all the way across the fairgrounds to get a bucket of Sweet Martha’s cookies. But this year, I decided to start a new tradition: getting to the fair in a sustainable way. For months, I’ve been curious about the new A Line bus route as I watched the bus stops being constructed along Ford Parkway, where I live. Not a light rail, but

Photo credit: Steve Snodgrass Making sustainable choices in our daily lives is a simple way to reduce our impact on the environment. These choices can be quite personal – bringing your own bag to the grocery store, buying local produce, and choosing to walk rather than drive somewhere. Day by day, sustainable actions add up, helping curb the carbon emissions that change our climate. Sustainable choices can also be made on a larger scale, resulting in larger net positives for