COMMUNITY VOICES | Hmong Mississippi River canoe trip

By Jay Clark, TC Daily Planet
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On June 14, 20 Hmong refugee students took a canoe trip down the Mississippi river. The trip began at Brooklyn Park’s River park, and ended at Minneapolis’ Boom island.

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Global Water Dance marks solstice in Minneapolis

By Pat Carney, North News

Early in the afternoon June 15, the weather was threatening to make the event a wash out. Then an hour before the 7:00 p.m.

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Save the Date! Local Economy Fair

By Staff, Corcoran News

Saturday, July 20!

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Save Energy and Stay Cool this Summer

By Staff, Corcoran News

Interested in saving energy this summer? Home Energy Squad Enhanced is here to help! Formerly called Community Energy Services (CES), the Home Energy Squad Enhanced program, just like CES, is a full service residential energy program designed to make reducing energy use and saving money easy.

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Water for our future

By Brendon Slotterback, Streets.MN

Streets.mn has me on assignment in mostly sunnier San Diego, and besides seeing a lot of cool animals, this trip has me thinking about water (ok, not on assignment, but on vacation). San Diego is classified as semi-arid to arid, receiving less than 12 inches of rain per year. Typical suburban yards look a lot less grassy and lot more cactusy. You see things like this and like this, which you don’t typically see in the midwest. Surface water from rainfall runoff hasn’t been able to meet the region’s water supply needs since 1947. Because of this, the County of San Diego imports 80 percent of its water from sources hundreds of miles away. Many parts of California continue to grapple with water supply issues.

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The greedheads will destroy the Boundary Waters Wilderness

By Dan Burns, Minnesota Progressive Project

If they can. Here’s the deal. The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) straddles part of the Minnesota/Ontario border. What with not being so much the trekking, camping type, I haven’t been there, but knowledgeable sources tell me that it is quite literally heaven on earth. Spectacular and powerful.

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Minneapolis has number one park system, according to Trust for Public Lands

By Siobhan Keirans, KFAI Radio

Minneapolis has earned its first ever “5-park bench rating," on the Trust for Public Lands and ParkScore; beating San Francisco and becoming number one. John Erwin is the President of the Minneapolis Parks and Recreations Board. John talked to Siobhan Keirans on KFAI’s Morning Blend, about the achievement Minneapolis has gained by being considered the healthiest city in the country. Siobhan asked John about the “Trust for Public Land." [Audio below]

One-sort arrives throughout Minneapolis

By Douglas Fehlen, Camden News

As the calendar turns to June, Minneapolis is set to achieve a significant landmark in its recycling program. By the end of the first week in the month, all residents participating in the city’s recycling program will switch to a one-sort collection model.

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Groups ask "what will come after 'peak oil'?"

By Margo Ashmore, Northeaster

May 18, the Citizens for Sustainability looked at potential garden spots. (Photos by Margo Ashmore)

Whether it’s challenging each other to see “how low you can go” with the home thermostat in February, or looking at swaths of public turf grass for their potential to hold community vegetable gardens, sustainability and Transition Town groups are popping up all over.

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Food justice: For LaDonna Redmond, this is the civil rights issue of the 21st century

By Norma Smith Olson, Minnesota Women’s Press

When LaDonna Redmond couldn't find an organic tomato within 10 minutes of her home in her Chicago neighborhood, she decided to become an urban farmer. Her urban garden led to a grass-roots movement of citywide-and then national-conversations about food justice. It is her quest to see that every citizen has a right to food. She now lives in Minneapolis and is the founder of a new organization (Campaign for Food Justice Now) to be a one-stop shop for individuals and organizations working on issues of food justice.

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