Sweet Martha’s Cook­ies. Pron­to Pups. Princess Kay’s But­ter Sculp­ture. Any Min­neso­ta State Fair enthu­si­ast can eas­i­ly con­jure (or taste!) these icon­ic images from the Great Min­neso­ta Get-Togeth­er. But today, we want to focus on some oth­er, often more invis­i­ble (but equal­ly icon­ic) ele­ments at the State Fair that pro­mote sustainability! The Min­neso­ta State Fair, boast­ing...Read More

While we cer­tain­ly aren’t per­fect in our envi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty jour­ney, as an agency, Bell­mont Part­ners is whole-heart­ed­ly striv­ing to do bet­ter to make our sur­round­ing com­mu­ni­ties bet­ter than how we found them. That’s why we are both excit­ed and hum­bled to receive a gold lev­el des­ig­na­tion – the high­est a busi­ness can earn – in the...Read More

The Bell­mont Part­ners Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Com­mit­tee aims to reduce the waste asso­ci­at­ed with run­ning our busi­ness and improve the world around us, as well as edu­cate, encour­age and empow­er employ­ees on var­i­ous envi­ron­ment-relat­ed top­ics and activ­i­ties. At our month­ly staff meet­ings, we offer sus­tain­abil­i­ty tips for our team to use both at the office and in...Read More

Bob Pilz has a pas­sion so deep for exot­ic ani­mals that he had to share it with oth­ers. Thus, Sus­tain­able Safari was cre­at­ed in 2019 as an inter­ac­tive ani­mal expe­ri­ence in Maple­wood Mall, fea­tur­ing more than 25 unique species such as emus, lemurs, armadil­los, greater gri­son and red kan­ga­roos. Safari Bob, along with his wife,...Read More

Win­ter is gone, the days are longer, the sun is warmer. Now would usu­al­ly be the time we’re plant­i­ng var­i­ous flow­ers, pro­duce and herbs on the Bell­mont Part­ners ter­race – a sure sign of spring at the office. Even though we can’t gar­den togeth­er again just yet, our team mem­bers brought this pas­sion home, and...Read More

Cli­mate change is one of the biggest and most urgent chal­lenges of our time, and we need every­one to do what they can to address it. Our envi­ron­ment affects every aspect of life, from our food, to bio­di­ver­si­ty, weath­er pat­terns and more, and every­thing we do indi­vid­u­al­ly con­tributes to what kind of world we live...Read More