pollution
Help Tend the Crosby Prairie
Join this award-winning and important restoration effort! Volunteers will help remove invasive species from the demonstration interpretive prairie at Crosby Park. All supplies and equipment are provided.
Please see our website for more information and registration. Pre-registration is required.
Explore Urban Wetland Ecology at Crosby Park
Join experts from Friends of the Mississippi River, the Army Corps of Engineers and Capitol Region Watershed District as they explore the plant life in and around Crosby Park's Upper Lake and the surrounding marsh. In experiencing the ecology of this urban wetland, we’ll learn the importance of plants that provide habitat and filter pollutants from water. In addition, we’ll collect
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Migratory Plastic Bags
Migrating plastic bags have become a major environmental problem in the Pacific Ocean and Minnesota's metro area streams and lakes. Here, "The Magnificent Plastic Bag," a superb mockumentary produced by Heal the Bay (Santa Monica) is tagged with a Timid Video Theater (Eden Prairie) take in the metro region.MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | PolyMet, manipulation, and public meetings/hearings
On December 8, 2009, the Minneapolis the Star-Tribune ran a story entitled:
"DNR leaves out public debate at mining project meetings"
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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Update on HERC garbage incinerator proceedings
(1) By a December 1, 2009, letter to the City, Covanta extended the deadline for action to May 3, 2010.
An email from City Planner Kimberly Holien says:MORE »
FREE SPEECH ZONE | Underway: An attempt to curb citizen rights in MN environmental review process
(Thanks to Stephanie Henrickson of Bridgewater Twp, Rice County, for the heads-up on this.)MORE »
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