Environment

Natural-born leader

By Pam Taylor, Minnesota Women's Press
When Nancy Hone was 16 years old, her speech teacher asked the class a question that changed her life.MORE »

Growing healthier kids and communities, in the gardens

By Clara Peterson, Minnesota 2020
When I first heard the term "community garden," I pictured a big, open plot in the middle of a neighborhood-a large garden accessible to, and maintained by, any and all members of the community who woMORE »

Uncertain times at Rock-Tenn

By Michael Moore, Workday Minnesota
At the age of 22, Dan Fessenden took a fatefulMORE »

"Holding the water for us to see it": New artist-designed outdoor drinking fountains in Minneapolis

By Jason Ericson, TC Daily Planet

A broken water fountain at Heart of the Beast theater inspired the project. (photo courtesy Sandy Spieler, HOTB)

Jason Ericson
Minneapolis City Council approved $500,000 last January for the construction of 10 new public drinking fountains, each designed by different Minnesota artists.MORE »

Bicycling commuters sound off

By Renee Lepreau, Park Bugle
Everyone who works has to get to work. For some people that means throwing on a bathrobe as they shuffle to their home office.

For most of us, it’s not that easy.

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Global Worming: The critters are coming

By Scott Russell, TC Daily Planet

If advocates talk about global warming in a forest, will it make a noise?

Scott Russell
(Gunflint Trail, Minn.) Lee Frelich stood at the foot of a 300-yeMORE »

LCCMR members briefed on conservation plan

By staff, Session Weekly
Members of the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources were briefed on a sweeping new plan to protect and restore the state's environment and natural habitat.

The MORE »

The Boreal Forest Monologues

By Scott Russell, TC Daily Planet

Lee Frelich, director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Hardwood Ecology, discusses global warming and its threat to northern Minnesota's jack pine and black spruce forest. Jeffrey Huxmann of Solterra Communications captures it for an upcoming video for the Pew Environmental Group.

Scott Russell
(Gunflint Trail, Minn.) Christopher Cox, Pew Environment Group’s Minnesota representative, stood amid the burnt trees of a recent nMORE »

Check your lake

By Mary Turck, TC Daily Planet
From my vantage point in St. Paul, it looks like everybody goes to the lake for the weekend.MORE »

EPA’s arsenic cleanup criticized

By Dennis Geisinger, Southside Pride
Federal Environmental Protection Agency officials in charge of arsenic cleanup for the Southside Superfund site came under criticism by the City of Minneapolis and neighborhood residents at a hearing MORE »
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