Individual Adaptation Award 2024
Syd Bauer co-organized the 2019 Global Student Climate Strike in Morris and co-founded the West Central Minnesota Climate Network. She spends most of her time driving for Morris Transit, and has a remarkable ability to build bridges across her community. She fosters relationships between the civic community and elected officials, as well as with the business community, government employees, and institutions. Syd was a lynchpin in establishing the Organic Waste Recycling Program in Stevens County, bringing together elected officials, contractors, county staff and the general public in conversation to envision a more sustainable future. In its first two years of operation, the program has removed nearly 400,000 tons of organics from the traditional waste stream.