Environment

Vento Sanctuary “Listen to the Voices” event: the ordinary becomes extraordinary

By Paul Purman, TC Daily Planet
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The business of morality: Peace Coffee

By Tara Bannow, The Bridge

Peace Coffee employee Josh Lavelle gets ready to deliver a load of beans in the company’s bio-diesel-fueled van. Photo by Jeremy Stratton

If you’ve ever tried to trace your food back to its origin, chances are you ran into some trouble.MORE »

Minnesota Green Jobs National Day of Action

by Dan Thiede • Metro CERTS • On Saturday, September 27th a fired-up crowd gathered at the Minneapolis Urban League to help create a new clean, green, inclusive economy. MORE »

The Fertilizer Mafia?

by Ben Lilliston, 10/8/08 • Costs for farmers around the world have gone through the roof—particularly for fertilizer. As the New York Times reported in April, rising fertilizer prices are limiting the production of farmers in developing countries trying to respond to the global food crisis. Is this just a case of tight supplies and growing demand, or is something else going on? MORE »

A “citizen naturalist” on St. Paul’s East Side

by Ellen Tveit, 10/4/08 • On a spectacular fall afternoon, Neil Cunningham led me through a planting of native Minnesota hazelnut and plum trees, grasses, and elderberry bushes—not the kind of scenery you’d expect to find across the street from a Burger King in a lower-income neighborhood.
By the People is a weblog on civic engagement produced by the Center for Democracy and Citizenship at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota.

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A chance to do the right thing

by Allison Page • 10/2/08 • The Phillips neighborhood (comprised primarly of people of color and low-income households and including a federal superfund site for arsenic) provides a stunning example of what environmental justice means. MORE »

Good energy in Linden Hills

By Betsy Mowry, TC Daily Planet
Wondering if you should turn your computer all the way off each evening?MORE »

Censored: Milk in the raw

By Sylvia Burgos, TC Daily Planet

Potential "suppliers." Identities concealed to protect the innocent.

The gravel crunched as I rolled to a stop. Machinery whined nearby. I kept the engine running.

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A string of sugar crystals: Greenway inspires a new model for urban development

By Jason Ericson, Uptown Neighborhood News
Before Tina Nelson started working for the Midtown Greenway Coalition back in 1999, she worked for years as a community organizer in the Seward neighborhood.MORE »

Midwest energy news: Minnesota to cut mercury emissions

by RE-AMP RoundUp • 9/29/08 • The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has announced the state’s largest polluters have agreed to cut their mercury emissions, according to Minnesota Public Radio. Since only ten percent of the states’ mercury comes from local sources, officials say they will pursue international efforts. This and other environmental news from the upper Midwest on the Re-AMP RoundUp newsroom. MORE »
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