Posts Categorized: Water

Profits from Perennials

Posted September 28th, 2010 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water.

One bright spot in the dust-up over the showing of the film Troubled Waters is that it highlights an important water quality issue: we need more perennial plant cover on… Read more »

“America’s Great Outdoors Listening Session” is Coming to Minnesota

Posted July 27th, 2010 by Minnesota Environmental Partnership & filed under Land Conservation, Water.

Get ready to share your ideas for protecting the places you love! NOTICE OF A PUBLIC LISTENING SESSION ON THE PRESIDENT’S AMERICA’S GREAT OUTDOORS INITIATIVE

Landmark Great Lakes Restoration Bill Advances in U.S. Senate

Posted July 1st, 2010 by Minnesota Environmental Partnership & filed under Funding for the Environment, Great Lakes, Water.

Bill includes more than $650 million in restoration funds ANN ARBOR, MICH. (June 30) – A landmark Great Lakes restoration bill advanced in the U.S. Senate today. The Great Lakes… Read more »

February Daydreams of Summer Canoe Trips

Posted February 26th, 2010 by Minnesota Environmental Partnership & filed under Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment, Funding for the Environment, Legislature, Sulfide mining, Transit and Transportation, Water.

John Tuma’s Capitol Update – February 26, 2010 “There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude,… Read more »

Minnesotans Deserve the Clean Water in President Obama’s Budget Proposal

Posted March 26th, 2009 by Minnesota Environmental Partnership & filed under Funding for the Environment, Water.

As the House and Senate Budget Committees act on President Obama’s budget this week, the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate of the budget deficit has created new pressure to reduce spending.

More on the President’s Proposed Budget

Posted March 4th, 2009 by Minnesota Environmental Partnership & filed under Energy, Funding for the Environment, Global Warming, Great Lakes, Water.

The budget proposal released by President Obama last week is a long and complicated document (140 pages, PDF).  It departs significantly from how things have been done in the past… Read more »

What does the stimulus plan mean for our Great Outdoors?

Posted February 19th, 2009 by Minnesota Environmental Partnership & filed under Energy, Funding for the Environment, Global Warming, Water.

While Minnesotans offer their ideas on how to deal with the massive state budget deficit at community hearings throughout the state in the next few weeks, we should take time… Read more »

Is the Customer Always Right?

Posted November 6th, 2008 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water.

Recent charges that the MPCA has been giving proposers of an Olmsted County ethanol plant most favored customer status need to be taken seriously: putting up a facility that will… Read more »

Wishing won’t make it so

Posted October 27th, 2008 by Minnesota Environmental Partnership & filed under Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment, Water.

“Clean, fresh water is vital to all life. It is key to our image of who we are as Minnesotans and what we want for our children, and it is… Read more »

Deep Background

Posted October 17th, 2008 by Brian DeVore, Land Stewardship Project & filed under Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Water.

An interesting postscript to the devastating flooding that hit southeast Minnesota in August 2007: after the deluge, the Minnesota Department of Health tested 65 wells in the area for contamination…. Read more »