Sponsors make our world go round. Without them, there would be no Plain Green Conference. Over 80% of Plain Green 2009 attendees we surveyed said they would rather do business with Plain Green sponsors–-we hope you will too.
Our 2010 sponsors:
Event Partners
Koch Hazard Architects
Koch Hazard Architects, founded in 1961, is a regionally-focused, professional service firm with expertise in architecture, planning and interiors and retains the most qualified consultants in engineering and other disciplines as needed. Koch Hazard Architects has received numerous professional and civic awards for its work.
SDSU College of Family and Consumer Sciences
Helen Van Zante Endowment
Dr. Helen Johnson Van Zante (1906-1990), a distinguished scientist and pioneering developer of the home microwave oven, grew up on a farm in Brookings County, SD. She attended South Dakota State College [SDSC] where she graduated with a degree in mathematics. Later, she pursued advanced graduate work in physics at Iowa State University, which was very unusual study for a woman in the 1930s, where she completed a doctor’s degree. While at SDSC, she studied traditional studio arts with Professor Ada B. Caldwell, which led to a lifelong avocation as a painter of still life, landscape, and genre subjects. In 1989, Van Zante received recognition from the South Dakota Board of Regents as a Centennial Alumni. She also established the substantial Van Zante Endowment to support visiting professors on such subjects as housing, home furnishings, and household technology, which the Interior Design program in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences developed along with the Department of Visual Arts.
Sioux Falls Green Project
Every single change counts with the Green Project –a local movement educating and inspiring our community to build a greener future. We’re working together to make Sioux Falls sustainable and responsible, focusing on the areas of recycling, water conservation, energy and design.
Plain Green Champion Sponsors
Blend Interactive 
Website Sponsor
Blend Interactive is a development firm specializing in custom Web design and development, content management, and conversational marketing.
Argus Leader Media
Media Sponsor
Argus Leader Media is an innovative, multi-platform media company with over 30 print and online products and is considered a leader in the culmination of fresh approaches to the newspaper industry in a new media age.
Official Plain Green 10 Sponsors
AIA South Dakota 
The mission of the architects of AIA South Dakota has been to safeguard the public, improve the profession and better the built environment.
Chartreuse Research
Community Service Project/
Joyce Coppinger Session Sponsor
Chartreuse is a research institute dedicated to identifying and developing sustainable building materials using the resources of the northern plains.
Howalt McDowell Insurance 
Closing Party Sponsor
Howalt+McDowell is an independent insurance agency with deep roots and a long record of accomplishment in the Upper Midwest.
Institute of Design and Technology of SD 
Anita Kealey Workshops Sponsor
IDTSD is advancing educational possibilities through design exploration and creative entrepreneurship. They offer students of all ages exploration and alternative study options with extensive hands-on training options in the specialized fields of fashion design and interior decor & stylization.
http://www.idtsd.org
Johnson Controls, Inc. 
Opening Party Sponsor
Johnson Controls is the global leader that brings ingenuity to the places where people live, work and travel. By integrating technologies, products and services, we create smart environments that redefine the relationships between people and their surroundings.
http://www.johnsoncontrols.com
Mount Pleasant Cemetery 
Closing Party Sponsor
Mount Pleasant Cemetery, founded in 1873, is the oldest active cemetery in Sioux Falls. In 2008 we introduced the “Green Burial Movement” to South Dakota by becoming the first Certified Provider of the Green Burial Council. Mt. Pleasant is the leader in promoting this environmentally responsible end of life option.
http://mtpleasantsf.com
SD Planners Association and APA West Central Chapter
Randall Arendt Workshops Sponsor
The professional organization for South Dakota’s planners and planning commission officials.
South Dakota State University Office of the President 
and
SDSU Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability Committee
VIP Breakfast Sponsor
Appointed in 2007, President David L. Chicoine is the third alumnus to sit in the South Dakota State University president’s office.
http://sdstate.edu/about/president
Friends of Plain Green 10
TSG Marketing
Submital Exchange
Sioux Falls Seminary
MinusCar Project
Argus Leader Tour de Kota
Architecture for Humanity, Sioux Falls Chapter
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