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March Menu Madness—CSA Style
The late March sun has had its way with our snow; now it’s going for the frost itself—slowing drawing it out of the ground like a tapeworm offered a cracker. Step off…
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Capitol check in
Here are a few quick midweek updates on Protect Our Great Outdoors legislation:
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Grow Your Own
Vegetables, flowers, grains, legumes – it’s your choice. If your looking for a way to grow some plants and better connect with your community, why not join a community garden? If you…
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Green Farms, Blue Water
The Minnesota River’s contribution of sediment to the Mississippi’s Lake Pepin has increased more than 12-fold since 1830. The Minnesota flows through an area composed of particularly fine-grained soils, which throughout geological…
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Capitol Update for March 9, 2007
Here is this week's update by lobbyist John Tuma: A Barrel Full of News This Week. There was a great deal of activity on environmental issues at the Legislature this past week, so this report is a little longer than usual. We had an emotionally packed committee hearing on global warming, some committee victories on…
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Senate spending
Polinaut has hot-off-the-press spending targets proposed in the Minnesota Senate, relative to the budget forecast. At first glance, it doesn't look good for the environment. In the arena I follow most closely (sorry transit), here's what they are proposing:
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A couple of policy resources
There are two new sites that I learned about recently that the wonks among you might find interesting.
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“Going Going Green”
“Global warming is not coming; it is here.” Who says? Sports Illustrated. Yup, Global Warming is on the cover of March 12th’s Sports Illustrated. I am also happy to say that I saw this…
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Orange and Green make …
For reason I quite frankly do not know, stereotype has it that folks glad in blaze orange are not supposed to get along with people deemed green, and vice versa.
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Loads of hearings this week
There is something happening every day this week at the Capitol related to the Protect Our Great Outdoors initiative. Here's what's currently in store: