Your City Can Apply to Join Xcel’s Partners in Energy Program
Your city can apply by March 19 to join Xcel’s Partners in Energy Program to help you meet your community’s energy conservation goals As communities are becoming more energy aware, …
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The Regenerative Economy
As I have mentioned, it was recently New Economy Week. We at the Alliance, busy with energy and water and food meetings and writing, are still getting caught up on …
Restoration, Personal and Planetary
I had a long conversation yesterday with Alliance co-founder Terry Gips. I consider myself quite fortunate to be working alongside Terry, and Executive Director Sean Goseiwski, who have together built …
Building a new economy
Last week was New Economy Week, according to these folks. As someone who lives outside the echo chamber, mostly focusing on my family, my own work, and my immediate community, …
Sustainability means keeping things
I am so fortunate to be connected to people who have the time and space to save things, and the amazing thing about this era is that we can communicate …
Not all that is renewable is sustainable
Last week, MPR reported that New Era Wind LLC has informed the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission that it will end its effort to build a 78 megawatt wind farm in …
Thoughts from my commute
I bicycle for so many reasons, and yesterday morning two circumstances in my daily commute (which is drop-off and pick-up from preschool — I’m one of those fortunate folks whose …
Go Greenway!
Corcoran News reports that the Minneapolis Midtown Greenway was named the best bike path in the U.S. by The Active Times. The 5.5 mile path was lauded for both its …
Sustainability Podcast/Our National Parks
As part of the strategic planning process currently underway at the Alliance, we have been looking at existing sustainability resources in order to identify where we best fit. I get …
“Sustainable seafood a fantasy?”
A recent Salon article suggests sustainable seafood is a fantasy. It quotes ecologist Carl Safina of Blue Ocean Institute: “You can’t rely on anybody selling you fish to be truthful …