Environment

Going green and blue: millions ready to gain in new economy

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota
More than 300,000 Minnesotans – and millions across the United States – are poised to take advantage of new job opportunities in the growing "green" economy, according to a new report released by a grMORE »

Arsenic, burners, and automobiles

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet
A quick round-up of recent environmental stories in the news: arsenic, burners, and idling cars.

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Did Minikahda Club's illegal pipe put skanky pool water into Lake Calhoun?

By Chris Steller, Minnesota Monitor
A Minneapolis Public Works Department investigation into the source of a mysterious milky-white substance that appeared in Lake Calhoun April 29 has led to the discovery of an illegal sewer line from MORE »

Racking up the food miles

By Cael Warren, Land Stewardship Project
The concept of “food miles” has spurred heated debate across the developed world, causing people to question the origins of the food that ends up on their tables.MORE »

Big Decision II for Big Stone II

By James Sanna, TC Daily Planet
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission heard testimony Tuesday (June 3) on whether to approve 115 miles of power lines in Minnesota intended to connect a proposed second power plant in Big Stone, SMORE »

Green wave to come

by Rachel Dykoski, 6/4/08 • Fourteen hours have passed since I struggled home from the most amazing rally. After hearing Sen. Barack Obama at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul last night, my heart is still full of hope. So many of us are committed to the ideals of the Democratic party. Every vote must count because everybody matters, and hearing his speech yesterday made me believe it. "We are the future we've been waiting for," is not some blithe accolade or turn of phrase. It's an axiom for a movement - a green wave of opportunity in which we all can play a role. MORE »

Sustainability saves money, energy on Minnesota campuses

By Erin Boeke Burke, Minnesota 2020
Minnesota’s colleges and universities are proving that reducing energy waste and consumption is saving money.MORE »

America’s leaders have failed us on a realistic energy goal

By Myles Spicer, TC Daily Planet
The failure to provide our nation (indeed, the world) with an effective, realistic and timely new energy policy, might well go down in history as one of the greatest failures of modern civilization.MORE »

Thousands of contracts, millions of jobs

By Staff, Insight News
Van Jones is the founder and president of Green for All, a national organization working to get "green collar" jobs and opportunities to disadvantaged communities.MORE »

Green decade

By Dave Healy, Park Bugle
Assigning colors to decades is an interesting exercise. The 1930s, dominated by the Great Depression, might rate a label of black.MORE »
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