Northland Sustainable Solutions invites you to build bridges that move us toward personal and planetary transformation. We are acting together in environmental conversation for ecological restoration during three extraordinary events designed to celebrate our interconnection and shared responsibility.Included in these three events is inspiration provided by Indigenous and international speakers.August 17 – The ecology of... Read more »

On Sunday, August 21st, local leader in Bagley, Minnesota, Marty Cobenais, will be guiding a tour of Enbridge oil pipelines to gain a unique perspective on the damaging effects of oil in Minnesota. The tour will include visits to a Tank Farm in Clearbrook, a scenic overlook, and a chance to walk on exposed pipelines... Read more »

The University of Minnesota Extension is sponsoring a workshop and tour highlighting the applied research for establishing perennial cover crop systems within a corn and soybean rotation. Farmers, Ag professionals, government agency personnel and the public are invited to the Rosemount Research and Outreach Center for a tour of the latest in perennial cover crop... Read more »

Produced for FMR by award-winning local filmmaker John Kaul and narrated by 89.3 The Current’s Steve Seel, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of how one man’s vision — combined with smart citizen advocacy and effective political leadership — created the Mississippi River’s first and only national park right here in the Twin Cities. As we... Read more »

Join us this Thursday in Council Chambers at the Intergovernmental Relations Committee in support of a Minneapolis Resolution affirming Indigenous resistance efforts against the Dakota Access Pipeline.Bring your friends, family, co-workers, banners and art work in support of protecting our precious waters and ending what environmental justice leader Winona LaDuke has called the era of... Read more »

Produced for FMR by award-winning local filmmaker John Kaul and narrated by 89.3 The Current’s Steve Seel, this 30-minute documentary tells the story of how one man’s vision — combined with smart citizen advocacy and effective political leadership — created the Mississippi River’s first and only national park right here in the Twin Cities. As we... Read more »

Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness is proud to host our second annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival at The Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. As part of one of the largest environmental film festivals in North America, the Wild & Scenic Film Festival highlights films that inspire adventure and serve as a catalyst to protect wild landscapes. Come,... Read more »

The Dakota Access Pipeline is an oil pipeline in the beginning stages of construction. But construction has recently been halted by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SRST), whose reservation lies just South of where the pipeline will be laid. The tribe is protesting the construction of this pipeline because Dakota Access has plans to lay... Read more »

For more than 30 years, Winona LaDuke has been an activist for environmental, economic, and political justice, with a focus on tribal land claims. In 1996 and 2000, she was on the Green Party candidate Vice President running with Ralph Nader. She was executive director of both the White Earth Recovery Project and currently heads... Read more »