Posts By: Sierra Club, North Star Chapter

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 30, 2013Contact: Jessica Tatro, Sierra Club, 612-963-9642, Jessica.tatro@sierraclub.org J. Drake Hamilton, Fresh Energy, 651-366-7557, hamilton@fresh-energy.orgEric Jensen, Izaak Walton League- America, 651-649-…

Reprinted from this letter.

January 18,2013

Dear Friends,
On behalf of the Environmental Quality Board, I would like to thank every one of the Minnesota citizens who attended the Environmental Congress Citizen Forums last November a…

UPDATE: The Minneapolis City Council voted 13-0 to adopt this ordinance on 2/8/2013.

photo credit: Jeff Johnson
Imagine you are in the market for a new office and your company wants to minimize its electric and gas bills. You coul…

By Emma Struss
In what has come to be a daily ritual over this winter (with the temperatures dipping), I check the outdoor thermometer before leaving the house. How I should get to work: bike, walk, or drive? Three main factors are we…

By Stephanie SpitzerWill this be the year that we make Minnesota a solar leader? With the start of the new legislative session, we have a greater opportunity than ever before to tell our legislators that we want solar.
Last week, the Si…

By Justin FayThe 2013 session of the Minnesota Legislature is now under way, presenting both challenges and opportunities for the environment.  While the budget will certainly dominate a lot of the attention this year, there will al…

by Stephanie Spitzer
On Monday, January 21, President Barack Obama’s second term in office will begin, and the Sierra Club is launching its 100 Days of Action campaign. From the inauguration to Earth Day, we’ll be calling on Pr…

By Carol Keyes-Ferrer
About eight years ago, a group of Sierra Club members got together to work on a grassroots effort to improve transit in Northern Dakota County (NDC).  The NDC Sierra Community represented residents in Rosemoun…

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…

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…