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    12 Bemidji businesses land on Grand Rapids Girl Scout’s sustainable shopping map

    The more she learned, the more she felt she had to share. Recently, she found a way to expand her audience and hopes to help bring about real change, starting in northern Minnesota. Ranging from Park Rapids to Grand Marais, Kessler mapped out dozens of businesses that she determined sold sustainable goods, based on her phone calls and interviews with over 80 northern Minnesota businesses. Kessler, a 16-year-old from Grand Rapids, did so as a Girl Scout working toward her Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can earn, similar to the rank of Eagle Scout in Boy Scouts of America. One of her maps highlights stores carrying responsibly-made,…

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