Tag: Minnesota

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  Oversized 'Urban Plant Tags' Label Sidewalk Fixtures as if They're Plants

  This creative project labels urban sidewalk fixtures with giant plant tags.

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  Minnesota's Energy Could be 100% Renewable At No Extra Cost

  A new report suggests that Minnesota has all the solar and wind energy it needs to go 100% renewable. But it must invest in energy efficiency to do it.

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  Turning Vacant Lots into Profitable Urban Farms in Minnesota

  An urban farming project in the Twin Cities is converting abandoned lots into food producing gardens.

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  How Turkeys (and Brussels Sprouts) Should Be Killed (Video)

  For the last two years, The Perennial Plate has killed turkeys on camera. This year, they slaughter some sprouts instead.

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  The Week in Animal News: Man Kills Entire Pelican Colony, Sharks at Golf Course, and More (Slideshow)

  The arrival of thousands of pelicans could annoy just about anyone, but few resort to a mass killing to deal with the "problem." That's what one Minnesota farmer did this week, and he now faces fines of $15,000 and six months in

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  Internet Killing Print Media: Up-Cycling Paper Mills Could Make Digital Communications Greener

  Paper Age reports that "total printing-writing paper shipments decreased 6.4% in August compared to August 2010." Burrowing in, Fortress Specialty Cellulose echos the

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  Wildfire Spreading Rapidly Through Northern Minnesota, Locals Prepare to Evacuate

  A wildfire has been steadily burning in the Boundary Waters region of Northern Minnesota since August 18, but is now spreading rapidly,

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  Isn't this the Coolest Bike-Only Bridge Ever? (Video)

  Minneapolis Shows Us What Bike Infrastructure Should be Like Book publishers say that for every mathematical equation in a book, the audience is cut in half (which might be why physicist Stephen Hawking wrote A Brief History of Time without any math).

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  Minnesota's Bike Share Expands to 1,200 Bikes!

  The Twin Cities on Two Wheels Nice Ride MN, Minesota's great bike sharing program, is growing up fast. There are already a good number of bike stations (as you can see on this map), but they are expanding: They started last year with 65 stations and 700

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  DNA Trail Maps Cougar's Dead-End Journey Across South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin & Connecticut

  DNA testing of cougar crap left along a 1,055-mile trail has established that a young male Puma walked all the way from South Dakota to New England in search of a mate. The poor cat's

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  Zoo Tigers Beat Deathly Heat Wave by Snacking on Bloodsicles

  With an unprecedented spike in temperatures breaking records all over the country, humans aren't the only ones feeling the heat. But just as humans have come up with lot of ways to keep cool, tigers at

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  Above Minneapolis' Bike Highway, a Self-Service Repair Kiosk for Cyclists

  Making cities more cycling-friendly is not just making biking desirable, it's also about making biking safe and feasible. And that means : bike lanes, showers at work for commuters, and giving cyclists the tools to deal

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  Is Michele Bachmann's Plan to Violate the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act the Green Move?

  In 2009, we congratulated Congress and President Obama on extending the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, forbidding development that would change the wild or scenic nature of

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  Beautiful Sustainable Food Show Needs Your Help (Video)

  I am as much of an advocate for local, sustainable food as the next hippy. And yet, I was beginning to wonder if the world had reached saturation point with videos, blogs and books about locavore diets and backyard

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  Growing Oyster Mushrooms, and a Recipe for Vegetarian Terrine (Video)

  Yesterday posted an eerily pretty video about hunting and eating roadkill in Minnesota. Since then, I've been digging through more of the fabulous content created by The Perennial Plat, including this episode on

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  Hunting and Eating Roadkill in Minnesota (Video)

  I've written before about the environmental case for hunting and fishing, and the topic of eating roadkill usually stirs up some heated debate too. I've just come across a rather beautiful and poignant video that

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  Minnesota Moose Population Crash Possibly Correlated With Climate Change

  I recently was chided a bit for suggesting (without having provided a link to supporting scientific evidence) that the behavior of a central-Wisconsin black bear emerging from its

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  Don't Worry About Peak Resources, God Will Provide and Fix, Says GOP Rep

  Take that, Jim Kunstler and all you peak oilers and climate warmers! According to Mike Beard, Republican state rep from Bachmannland, aka Minnesota, God will provide and repair. According to Huffpo: "God is not capricious. He's given us a creation that