Bill Clinton criticized Mitt Romney for dismissing climate change and the damage it will cause cities like New York as the oceans rise and warm, and as storms grow more frequent and more deadly. Continue Reading →
“I guarantee you that my mother and her parents, who lived in Jim Crow Louisiana, probably had better food than folks living in urban America today, because they grew it themselves,” said Congressman Keith Ellison. Continue Reading →
“You think you got problems now,” warned Congressman Keith Ellison. “If they pass this (Voter Restriction Amendment), food policy will look worse than it looks now. Cuts to nutrition programs will accelerate. Tax cuts to the wealthiest will expand.” Continue Reading →
Minneapolis’ Green Homes North project aims to build 100 ecological homes in North Minneapolis that are based on green standards and do it with local minority and women contractors and locally-sourced green products. Continue Reading →
Minnesota Legislators comment on global warming and the two proposed constitutional amendments, Continue Reading →
DFL lawmakers agreed that Climate Change will cause more extreme weather events such as the Duluth floods, and lawmakers have to be prepared. Continue Reading →
Rick Nolan, the DFL-endorsed candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s 8th District, favors a federally-funded Technical Institute for Mining and the Environment (TIME). Continue Reading →
Following last year’s May 22 tornado that devastated North Minneapolis, a coalition of nearly 60 local organizations came together to form the Northside Community Response Team (NCRT) to confront both the short-term and long-term needs. Continue Reading →
The Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater company has undertaken a community connections program called “Temporary Shelters: Tales from the Minneapolis Tornado” — to tell the stories of people who survived the North Minneapolis tornado. Continue Reading →
Students at Lucy Laney School in North Minneapolis released 200 blue balloons into the air, thereby freeing themselves of the anxiety and pain that the community has carried since the May 22 tornado. Continue Reading →
More than 80 architects and designers came together to help those whose homes were damaged by the tornado. Continue Reading →
The Minneapolis Park Board and its corporate partners are planting 3,100 trees on the Northside to replace the the 2,600 that were destroyed in a tornado a year ago. Homeowners such as Laura Kidd on Plymouth Avenue North are very excited. Continue Reading →
Several thousand Minneapolitans joined the hundreds of thousands around the world celebrating May Day, International Workers’ Day, on May 1, 2012 with a march down Lake Street to Powderhorn Park. Continue Reading →
Nearly a year after the tornado that ripped through North Minneapolis, opinions vary greatly on what the poverty-stricken community needs most from local and state government. Should the City introduce “pie in the sky” ideas or focus on more immediate problems? Continue Reading →
A prayer that mentioned earth day and the second anniversary of the BP oil explosion in the Gulf of Mexico was deemed “offensive” by Representative Mary Franson (R- Alexandria). Continue Reading →
Rebuild It Right, an organization made up of architects and designers from Minneapolis, is helping homeowners advocate for quality design in the wake of the May 22nd Tornado. Continue Reading →
Former Minnesota State Representative Frank Moe delivered thousands of signatures to Governor Mark Dayton to raise awareness about the effects of sulfide mining in Northern Minnesota. Continue Reading →
Tomatoes, carrots and green beans could be finding their way from behind bars to Minnesota food shelves next year. An amendment added to the state corrections policy bill calls for prisons to establish gardening programs. Continue Reading →
Native American activist, environmentalist and writer Winona LaDuke speaks today at the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Advanced Study about biocultural diversity, language, and environmental endangerment. Continue Reading →
STRUCTURES FOR INCLUSION is an annual conference focused on design for social good. Structures for Inclusion 2012 brings together activists, designers, funders and policy makers who are at the forefront of designing in the public’s interest. Dynamic innovators and experienced professionals from around the world are providing honest, inspiring conversations and participatory workshops to help designers do more and do it better. This year’s theme: Design is Relational
It is not just about objects. It’s also about being a catalyst to change human relationships and activities. Continue Reading →
President Obama responds to Republicans who see rising gas prices as a political opportunity. Continue Reading →
Hundreds of enthusiastic Minnesota Ron Paul supporters show their support for his Presidential bid and explain why he’s their pick for President. Continue Reading →
Farmers in the Palestinian West Bank have harvested olives for generations. But that livelihood is in danger, as the Israeli military uproots olive trees and settlers seize their water supply. Continue Reading →
Despite Republican congressional resistance that’s made it difficult to make headway on progressive issues, Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison is optimistic about 2012. Continue Reading →
Think bad thoughts about the government and you could go to jail…forever. That may sound like a Soviet-era law, but civil libertarians say it’s possible under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Continue Reading →
