Go electric: Make your home part of the climate solution
By Tim Wulling When we use natural gas in our homes, we’re burning a fossil fuel, which adds carbon emissions and alters our climate. How could we avoid that? St.... Read More
Coming Aug. 13: Eco Fair and 5K run for sustainability
By Jennifer Victor-Larsen Are you looking for a free, fun, all-ages event that will help you live more sustainably? On Saturday morning, Aug. 13, the nonprofit Donate Good Stuff will... Read More
A community garden’s roots, and its gifts
By Sue Conner Any summer day, if you’re going south on the railroad bridge on Raymond Avenue, turn west onto Robbins Street just south of the bridge. There, spread out... Read More
Transition Town’s Newest Venture—June 11
By Annamary Herther “For the sake of the people and the land…set aside the ways of the colonist and become Indigenous to place.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass”... Read More
Rethinking I-94 into a human-scale boulevard
By Pat Thompson When it comes to the climate crisis, we can spend our days mired in awful versions of what is. So, it’s startling when someone shows us a... Read More
Transition Town: Going solar with the Twin Cities SUN co-op
By Tracy KuglerCommentary I am a geographer at the University of Minnesota and a fan of renewable energy. So when students from the Geographic Information Systems program at the university... Read More