Minneapolis’ 11th Annual Cross Country Ski Festival is coming up Feb. 2nd and 3rd!
The Sierra Club will once again be heading there on a transit outing to take in the fabulous Luminary Loppet, a 5 k. loop around Lake of the Isles through a…
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State Dept to Review Tar Sands Pipeline Expansion – Tuesday Rally at Capitol
Cross posted from Sierra Club Compass with permission. Join the North Star Energy Coalition for a rally Tuesday, January 8 at the Capitol Rotunda with speakers from Idle No More, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Sierra Club North S…
Teaming with Soil Microbes (part 1)
On a crisp morning in September, North Dakota farmer Gabe Brown held two handfuls of soil and searched for signs of life—theoretically not a difficult task considering one teaspoon of… Read more »
Get Going Green 2013
Happy New Year’s Eve from the Sierra Club North Star Chapter! Whether you go out on the town or stay home, today marks an opportunity for us all to reflect and aspire in our own lives. The Sierra Club’s mission is to explore, enjoy and prot…
Pollinators in Peril
As last week’s Congressional Research Service report on bee health makes clear, the crisis plaguing pollinators is not a single, big bad bogey man. It’s likely a combination of factors… Read more »
Stronger EPA Soot Safeguards Will Save Lives
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new air quality standards for fine particulate matter, or soot. The updated standards set the limit for safe concentrations of soot in the air at an annual level of 12 microg…
Minnesota River Valley Hike – Dec. 1, 2012
Ten people made this wilderness-in-the-city hike on a cloudy, but balmy Dec. 1. Rain held off, the bus left more or less on time (10:31) and we were back at the mall a bit before the projected return time of 2pm. A pleasant, 5 1/2 mile one …
Reporting Back: Minnesota’s Environmental Congress
By: Abbie Plouff
Over the past few weeks, hundreds of Minnesotans have come together to participate in public listening sessions organized by the Environmental Quality Board (EQB). I attended the Bloomington citizen forum on Novemb…
Janitors Fighting for Green Jobs
Janitors in SEIU Local 26 are fighting for green jobs: safe chemicals for janitors and tenants, day shift cleaning, and strong recycling standards in commercial office buildings. Sign this pledge to stand with janitors in our campaign to…
Climate Change
This weekend, we got the long-anticipated first big snowfall of the year making winter seem a little more real here in Minnesota. Waiting for that snow after a steamy summer and witnessing the devastation of Hurricane Sandy on the East Coas…