Make and Take Rain Barrel Workshop – Just $35!

Dakota County Fairgrounds (Registrants will receive directions to a specific building closer to event date) MN

What's one of the simplest, high-impact ways to save water and help protect our watershed? Using a rain barrel.Join us on Tuesday, August 23, 2016 from 6pm to 7:30pm for our popular rain barrel workshop where we’ll discuss the watershed-friendly benefits of rain barrels in more detail, then review how to build, incorporate, install and... Read more »

$35.00

Cover Crops and Perennials Field Day

Rosemount Research and Outreach Center (RROC)

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 »

“Rebirth: The Mississippi’s National Park” on TPT

MN

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 »

Stand Together Against the Pipeline, #NoDAPL

Minneapolis City Hall 350 South 5th St, Minneapolis, MN

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 »

“Rebirth: The Mississippi’s National Park” on TPT

MN

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 »

Wild & Scenic Film Festival – Minneapolis

The Varsity Theater 1308 4th Street SE, Minneapolis, MN

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 »

$8 – $15

Love Water Not Oil – Benefit for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

1530 East Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN

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 »

$10

Theater of Public Policy: Featuring Winona LaDuke

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 »

Tend the demonstration prairie at Ole Olson Park

Ole Olson Park 2325 West River Rd N, Minneapolis, MN

Join us on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 from 6pm to 8pm as we return to this riverfront park to tend an important native demonstration prairie garden along the bike trail. This event will help further our long-term transformation and commitment at this site and to the river. Although a small urban site, Ole Olson is home to... Read more »

Wild & Scenic Film Festival – Duluth

MN

Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness is proud to host our second annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival at the Zeitgeist Center for Arts and Community in Duluth. 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... Read more »

$8 – $15