Climate Change and Sensible Communities
Ecologists question effects of climate change on infectious diseases
Minnesota Grocers Association Encourages Customers to ‘Add Green to Your Routine’
Green enough for 35W concrete, toxic coal ash is also used on farmsTrace metals in fly ash raise questions about agricultural application
The Building Sensible Communities bill, (SF 549 (Dibble)/ HF 898(Hornstein) continues steady progress to a floor vote.
Smarter planning needed to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure
Thomas Friedman: If nature had a Dow, we’d know our climate is sinking
(Congressional version, passed yesterday would) trim Obama’s spending proposals for the fiscal year that begins in October and curtail his plans to cut taxes. The blueprints, however, would permit work to begin on the central goals of Obama’s presidency: an expansion of health-care coverage for the uninsured, more money for college loans and a cap-and-trade system to reduce gases that contribute to global warming. [Emphasis added
Nalgene, the maker of the once-ubiquitous Lexan water bottles, has completed a survey of 25 American cities and found Minneapolis to be the seventh least wasteful. Minneapolitans scored very high in borrowing library books, buying second-hand items, and reusing containers for food storage and consumption. Find the full set of rankings and details on the survey, along with a nice clickable map, at leastwastefulcities.com. (PIM)
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Clean Cars
Perspective: Shoddy Environmental BookkeepingBiofuels and Indirect Land Use Change
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Green Jobs
When looking for a new career, Hellman said he wants something that is challenging and interesting. He sees “green” jobs as the new trend.
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Forests
Forestry expert discusses changes to BWCAW
Superior Forest off-road vehicle plan sent back
The bill, being considered by the Game, Fish and Forestry Division committee, would begin a five-year process of dismantling and selling the DNR’s state-run seedling nurseries
A plan by Gov. Tim Pawlenty to cap the payments made to Forest Capital Partners and other timberland owners through the maximum Sustainable Forest Incentive Act is shortsighted and must be stopped.
Grand Rapids-based Blandin Foundation has approved a $7 million grant for the Upper Mississippi Forest project
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Wetlands & Water
The challenge of ice on rivers at flood could be growing. The IJC report cautions that “very little work has been done on the more complex question of how climate change may influence the frequency and severity of ice jams.”
But our farmers “up north” also feel the pinch of Green Acres changes as many local farmers have unproductive lands — especially wetlands known as bogs up here — or acres entered into the federal Conservation Reserve Program
A certainty of growing up in Fargo: The water will rise, and if nature doesn’t relent, only human hands can stop it.
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Nuclear
Minnesota Senate energizes effort to lift nuclear ban
Dille said he was surprised that his amendment passed.
Reality Check: Minnesota’s Nuclear Power Future
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