Environment

Good to the last drip: Minneapolis to spend $180,000 to market its (wait for this) tap water

By Chris Steller, Minnesota Monitor

Never mind the bottles: It's the tap water. You can forget whatever you've heard about the coming water wars -- the water marketing wars are already here.

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Being green gets easier

By Kristal Leebrick, Park Bugle
If you’ve been thinking about starting a compost bin or switching to LED lights in your home, or if you’re just yearning to live a greener life but don’t know where to begin, the answers might be righMORE »

Sweeping the landscape bare

By Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project
A corn-based ethanol future means squeezing every last bit of energy off Midwestern crop fields, but at what cost?
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No need to complicate—organic gardening means letting nature do most of the work

By Sharon Parker, Southside Pride
Let me tell you about my first garden: I had moved into an apartment on Marshall Avenue in St. Paul some 30 years ago and was determined to grow tomatoes, just as my father did.MORE »

Senators want to know if EPA official Gade was ousted for doing her job

By Tom Elko, Minnesota Monitor
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is asking the U.S.MORE »

Theater goes green: Upright Egg's "Uranus"

By Sheila Regan, TC Daily Planet

Photo courtesy Upright Egg

The myth has it that on an equinox, all nature is in harmony and an egg can stand upright.MORE »

What does green building mean for Minnesota?

By Erin Boeke Burke, Minnesota 2020
In the ever-evolving lexicon of the public good, one of the popular new acronyms is LEED.MORE »

From hazardous waste, good business

By Nick Busse, Session Weekly
According to the Pollution Control Agency, 10 percent of the 13 million gallons of paint sold every year in Minnesota — 1.3 million gallons — is never actually used. A bill sponsored by Rep.MORE »

Owning your own power plant: Trickier than it seems

By Katie Anderson, TC Daily Planet

Carleton College wind turbine. (Photo by Sebastian Celis, licensed under Creative Commons.)

“Dear Bob, If you want to buy a turbine, you aren’t likely to get any incentives or subsidies unless you’re already rich or unless you’re willing to share an ownership stake with a large investment fiMORE »

New rules would help to prevent worker misclassification in the construction industry

By Michael Kuchta, Workday Minnesota
Minnesota needs rigorous rules if it expects to effectively crack down on fraudulent misclassification of "independent contractors," union representatives and contractors told a public hearing Monday.MORE »
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