It isn’t your imagination, or the early spring. Things really are greener, because there is more stuff getting green. Minneapolitans, like many Minnesotans are investing in rain gardens instead of lawns.
Thanks to a memorandum of understanding signed by Governor Mark Dayton last January with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Minnesota will assemble new water standards.
There is much talk about the Commons and “Death of the Commons” these days. A basic library journal search shows more writing on the subject in the past two years than the dozens (and hundreds) that preceded them.