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…
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Teaming With Soil Microbes (part 2)
Talking about the importance of feeding soil microbes is fine. Speaking with your feet is even better. “Take a closer look—anything you tramp down is just carbon in the soil,”… Read more »
Dakota County Studies Transit Alternatives – Citizen Input Needed
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…
Submit a Comment on the Minnesota “Environment And Energy Report Card”
Take action: Your written comments are needed to point out corrections and improvements that should be made to Minnesota’s new “Environment and Energy Report Card,” recently offered up by state… Read more »
Ski the Luminary Loppet, Sat. Feb. 2. – A Transit to Green Space Outing
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…
State Dept to Review Tar Sands Pipeline Expansion – Tuesday Rally at Capitol
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…
Teaming with Soil Microbes (part 1)
On a crisp morning in September, North Dakota farmer Gabe Brown held two handfuls of soil and searched for signs of life—theoretically not a difficult task considering one teaspoon of… Read more »
Get Going Green 2013
Happy New Year’s Eve from the Sierra Club North Star Chapter! Whether you go out on the town or stay home, today marks an opportunity for us all to reflect and aspire in our own lives. The Sierra Club’s mission is to explore, enjoy and prot…
Pollinators in Peril
As last week’s Congressional Research Service report on bee health makes clear, the crisis plaguing pollinators is not a single, big bad bogey man. It’s likely a combination of factors… Read more »
Stronger EPA Soot Safeguards Will Save Lives
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new air quality standards for fine particulate matter, or soot. The updated standards set the limit for safe concentrations of soot in the air at an annual level of 12 microg…