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 Education and Human 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 Education and Human 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. We connect our community’s green efforts and lift them up so we can all learn, change and grow together. One by one, we can unite so every effort makes an impact. Every One Counts.
Plain Green Champion Sponsors:
Avera Cancer Institute
Cameron Sinclair Keynote Sponsor
The Avera Cancer Institute already provides progressive, comprehensive and integrative care that equals or exceeds that of nationally-known cancer centers. Our new facility, opening in fall 2010, builds upon this history of excellence to create a destination cancer center – right here in Sioux Falls. Top-level, evidence-based care in a place of healing, hope and inspiration.
Argus Leader Media
Steve Clark Keynote 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.
Blend Interactive 
Website Sponsor
Blend Interactive is a development firm specializing in custom Web design and development, content management, and conversational marketing.
Gage Brothers Concrete 
Brian Dunbar Keynote Sponsor
Gage Brothers Concrete Products, Inc. has been manufacturing innovative, quality precast products for 7 decades. Our precast products range from Hollow Core Slabs, Beams, Columns, Double-Tees and Insulated Panel Systems to the most unique Custom Architectural Precast. Whether it is for warehouses, schools, parking ramps, hospitals, or a 50-story high rise, Gage Brothers Concrete Products, Inc. can deliver!
Lloyd Companies 
Mitchell Joachim Keynote Sponsor
Since 1972, Lloyd Companies has evolved from a small firm managing a single multifamily property to a full-service property management, real estate, construction and development company. In addition to our portfolio of 3,000 apartment units, premier office and retail centers, and our passion for giving back to the community, we are proud of our strong relationship with our many longtime clients, vendors, and nearly 200 employees that make Lloyd Companies a leader in South Dakota.
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.
Associated Consulting Engineers, Inc. 
Morning Network Break and Session Sponsor
Associated Consulting Engineering, Incorporated (ACEI) is a consulting engineering firm providing mechanical and electrical systems design since 1987. ACEI offers integrated mechanical and electrical engineering services for the design of plumbing, fire protection, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, building automation, lighting, power, sound and communication systems. ACEI has a staff of fifteen (15) including registered engineers, designers, technicians, CADD/Revit operators and clerical personnel.
Chartreuse Research
Community Service Project Partner
Chartreuse is a research institute dedicated to identifying and developing sustainable building materials using the resources of the northern plains.
Direct Digital Control 
ASHRAE Session Sponsor
Direct Digital Control, headquartered in Sioux Falls, SD, provides design, installation and service for open digital control systems. DDC has the experience to develop specific solutions for all types of buildings, including commercial office buildings, hospitals, hotels, schools and manufacturing facilities. Trust DDC to design reliable, affordable building management solutions that will keep your future options open. You’ll receive straight answers on how to maintain an efficient, comfortable environment.
Howalt McDowell Insurance 
Closing Party and Session 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.
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.
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.
O’Connor Company 
Morning Network Break and Session Sponsor
For 40 years, O’Connor Group has provided energy efficient solutions for heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems. We create opportunities for our customers to develop environmentally conscious business practices and save money, while analyzing our own business to improve efficiency, reduce waste and save energy.
POET 
The Future of Renewable Energy Panel Sponsor
POET is using the creativity that comes from common sense to deliver a new bounty of American energy from the eternal bounty of the American Heartland. With hard work, imagination and discipline, the people of POET have replaced hundreds of millions of barrels of imported oil with clean, renewable domestic energy while bringing hundreds of millions of dollars back to the American economy. Today, they have a network of 26 plants in seven states producing over one billion gallons of ethanol annually. POET delivers a turn-key development, design, engineering, construction, management and marketing services for our plant network.
Puetz Corporation 
Community Service Project Sponsor
Puetz Corporation, founded in 1952, is a third generation commercial architecture, management, and construction company. Our entire focus is serving our clients in central and eastern South Dakota with honesty, fairness, and respect. We are a value based, relationship sustaining company, looking forward to building a great relationship with you on your next design, management, or construction project.
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 
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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.
More Friends and Supporters of Plain Green 10:
Amert Construction
Architecture for Humanity, Sioux Falls Chapter
Argus Leader Tour de Kota
Bruns Construction
Carlson General Carpentry
Climate Systems, Inc.
Henry Carlson Company
Housing Resource Center
Jeld-Wen
MinusCar Project
Perspective Architecture Design Studio
Schoeneman’s Building Materials Center
Sioux Area Metro (SAM)
Sioux Falls Seminary
South Dakota ASHRAE
South Dakota Interior Designers
Submital Exchange
Trane
Xcel Energy
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