Today’s Topics: Agriculture and Food; Businesses and Jobs; Conservation; Energy; Fish and Wildlife; Green Building; Legislature and Administration; Mining; Parks and Trails; Sustainable Development; Transportation
Agriculture and Food
Alexandria Echo Press: Interest in farm to school builds as documentary is shown across Minnesota
Minnesota 2020: VIDEO: Farming in the City
Businesses and Jobs
Minnesota Daily: U students draw on love of outdoors to build company selling wooden cases for electronics
Conservation
Alexandria Echo Press: Study will examine ways of protecting wild rice
Energy
Minnesota 2020: Bachmann’s Two Dollar Gas
Minnesota 2020: In the Big Picture, Energy Efficiency Savings in Schools Add Up
Rochester Post Bulletin: Save energy with the click of an app
Fish and Wildlife
Brainerd Dispatch: DNR seeks input on deer populations
Duluth News Tribune: Effort at Lake Superior beach aims to help Wisconsin’s rarest bird
Minnesota 2020: Successful Enough to Hunt? Minnesota’s Gray Wolves
MPR: Emperor penguins more numerous than assumed, U of M satellite researcher shows
Pioneer Press: Dave Orrick: Ranch to roost … Legacy funds are protecting sharp-tailed grouse habitats, which are open for viewing
Pioneer Press: Minnesota: Early fishing opener to be discussed by Senate panel
Green Building
Minnesota 2020: Not Just Dodging a Draft: Sustainable Building 2030
Legislature and Administration
Alexandria Echo Press: Legislative issues: What is moving, what is not
Politics in Minnesota: GOP legislators split on plan to raise hunting and fishing fees
Star Tribune: Legislature list is heavy on matters of outdoors
Mining
The Circle: Twin Metals digs in
Parks and Trails
Star Tribune: Redrawn ATV routes OK’d for Superior National Forest
(MEP member groups Sierra Club, Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy and Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness mentioned)
Recycling and Waste Reduction
MinnPost: the carbon cost of reading on newsprint
Star Tribune: An indicator of Anoka County’s economic growth: Garbage
Sustainable Development
Pioneer Press: How green is St. Paul?
Transportation
Minnesota 2020: A Simple Challenge
MPR: Businesses, DFLers clamor for SW light rail
Politics in Minnesota: Tick-tock: Businesses push for Southwest LRT
