Video | Vendor Spotlight: Uponor
Founded in 1971, Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland, Minn. was the first environmental learning center nationally accredited as a K-12 school. More than 15,000 people all over the reg...
Minnesota Department of Commerce’s Clean Energy Community Award
More and more communities, organizations, and individuals are trying to figure out how they can get energy efficiency and renewable energy projects done. Wolf Ridge's local community of Finland, which...
Video | Creating a World Class Facility | HGA Architects & Engineers
What does it mean to create a World Class Facility? The Wolf Ridge ELC Living Building Challenge required our design and engineering partners at HGA to overcome many obstacles on the path to full L...
VIDEO | Gardner Builders, Doing it Differently
The Wolf Ridge ELC Living Building Challenge Renovation on the M.A.C. Lodge required our construction partners at Gardner Builders to look at the project much differently than a traditional build. In...
Meet The Funder: LBC/Margaret A. Cargill Lodge Website Funding Story
This article was written by Gene Champeau, Wolf Ridge ELC Donor and Board MemberAs one of the newest members of the Wolf Ridge Board of Trustees, from the beginning, I began to immerse myself in the â...
Lloyd’s Won the Excellence in Demolition Award for the Wolf Ridge ELC MAC Lodge Project!
This article is being posted as a followup to a previous post on the Wolf Ridge ELC Demolition team at Lloyd's Construction Services. In the previous article it was mentioned that the family would be...
In The News! A Superior Site to Learn in the Wild
The below article first appeared in the StarTribune online March 2nd and in print March 3rd 2018. We have shared it below for all of our supporters. The article was written by: Jennifer Bjorhus Phot...
Have you seen the news today?
Read all about it in the StarTribune "Inspired" section! Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center builds on a dream of Lake Superior...
Soaking Up Solar
This week we fired up the new solar panels for the first time. Under the clear February sun, electrons jumped right into action, creating almost 40 kW of electricity for the new Margaret A. Cargill Lo...
Vendor Spotlight: Lloyd’s Construction Services
When most people hear the word “demolition”, images of sledgehammers and front loaders are usually what come to mind. The abundance and popularity of home renovation television shows has made this...