Sustainability staff within the University of Minnesota System from around the state met in Duluth on Thursday and Friday for the annual Sustainability Summit.

The summit was intended to give members of the University sustainability community a chance to share their progress, goals and ideas about how to promote sustainability as well as the future of sustainability throughout the University System.  Representatives from the Twin Cities, Duluth, Morris and Crookston campuses were all in attendance.

Discussions included the biomass curriculum development at Morris, a presentation on the Sustainability Minor at the Twin Cities campus and how to work together on a System-wide approach to sustainability.

Representatives were also given tours of the new Bagley Nature Center, the UMD Edible Landscape project's Burlap Garden, and the UMD Rain Garden constructed in 2006, some of the recent and unique features in sustainability present at the Duluth campus.

Portions of Friday's lunch, catered by UMD Catering Services, were also obtained from local sources. 

The first Sustainability Summit was held in Morris in 2009 and will be held at the Twin Cities in Summer 2011.