Minnesota:
A History of the Land:
Watch
the history of Minnesota's resources, including the patterns of
boom and bust.
www.historyoftheland.org
Business
Start-up
The
Northeast Entrepreneur Fund is a nonprofit organization helping
people in our region start, stabilize, or expand small businesses.
Our Women's Business Network is a program focused on assisting women
entrepreneurs and advocating for women-owned businesses.
An initiative of Northeast Entrepreneur Fund, the Greenstone
Group invests in the professional development of high-performing,
high-potential entrepreneurs in northeast Minnesota and northwest
Wisconsin. “Growth Groups” of 6-8 business owners are
teamed with a business coach …
Range Readiness: see Opportunity
Development Team
Iron
Range Resources
Ely Area
Development Association (EADA) mission is to work cooperatively
to create economic opportunity for a stable and diversified economy
while maintaining Ely's quality of life.
Laurentian Vision
Partnership seeks to recover re-develop slopes and lakes left
behind by taconite mining.
Environmental protection
US Environmental Protection Agency
Indigenous Environmental
Network
Permaculture Collaborative,
MN (sign up for email notices)
Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
Reports and Policy.
Meeting
Minnesota’s Renewable Energy Standard Using The Existing Transmission
System
Sulfide Mining – seriously
threatens public water resource and life that depends upon it.
www.WaterLegacy.org Protect
and enhance Minnesota’s precious freshwater resource and to
ensure effective public participation in government and regulatory
process that impact the quality of fresh water and the health of
communities dependent on it.
www.SOSbluewaters.org
Gateway to comprehensive information, from citizen groups to mining
industry and regulatory agency information
www.miningminnesota.com/
Proponents’ organization
www.friends-bwca.org/programs/mining.html
Includes studies of environmental and economic impacts of sulfide
mining presented at the January ’08 legislative hearing on
sulfide mining.
www.savetheWildUP.org
A Michigan citizens group. The Upper Peninsula is closely analogous
to Minnesota’s Arrowhead region.
www.EARTHworksAction.org
The national Mineral Policy Center – documented effects of
hardrock mining, including sulfide rock disturbance
Sustainability in practice
http://www.ted.com/talks
Ideas worth spreading (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Numerous
podcasts available on the exciting new ideas taking place globally.
Permaculture Collaborative,
MN (sign up for email notices). Edible Forest Gardens (perennial
foods) can form a basis for local food security and a marketable
surplus.
MN Renewable Energy Society.
See the video by At the Crossroads, http://www.youtube.com/v/kjEY7qpbQDM&hl=en&fs=1
freEner-g: Affordable solar
photovoltaic equipment lease program; no up-front investment. Pay
fixed monthly rate and feed excess electricity back into the grid.
Renewing
the Counryside provides stories and resources of sustainable
and innovative intitiatives, businesses and projects.
The
Natural Step
The
Natural Step Framework is grounded in natural science that serves
as a guide for businesses, communities, educators, government entities,
and individuals on the path toward sustainable development.
The Network is part of the international
network.
www.thenaturalstep.org
a non-profit, research, education and advisory organization that
uses a science-based framework to help organizations, individuals
and communities move toward sustainability.
The
Alliance for Sustainability, Minneapolis-based. Free newsletter/membership.
State
grants proposed to develop local community to prevent
global warming, becoming carbon neutral through Clean Energy Resource
Team regional meetings (contact LCCMR for status)
NAAEE is the professional
association for environmental education
MPCA (Pollution Control Agency) resources
MN
Sustainable Communities Network
Philipp
Muessig Sustainable Communities Team, Phone: 651-215-0204, Email:
philipp.muessig@state.mn.us
Pollution Prevention
and Sustainable activities
UofMN
sustainable tourism program
Heather Hohenstein Vermillion
Community College – Sustainable Tourism program phone:
235-2134
Fresh Energy is a MN
nonprofit organization leading the transition to a clean energy
system. One that supports the health of our economies, our people,
and our environment while moving us toward energy independence.
Valuing the Commons
Who Owns the Sky? Our Common
Assets and the Future of Capitalism by Peter Barnes
The
Perelandra garden is a
laboratory of co-creative science. This site offers tools to deepen
our conscious, intentional co-creative partnership with nature.
This approach can serve purposes from powerful practical logistics
of any pursuit to spiritual connection and appreciation for our
mutually evolving capacity for harmony on earth.
Water resource – fresh, clean, the
basis of life
The PBS documentary Thirst
showed how communities around the world are resisting the privatization
and commodification of water. Now THIRST, the book, picks up where
the documentary left off, revealing the emergence of controversial
new water wars here in the US.
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, Vandana
Shiva, 156 pages
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
Consumer information on protecting the quality and safety of
food and water.
A ward-winning documentary investigation into what experts label
the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st
Century - The World Water
Crisis.
Metal recovery vs. mining
Sewage
yields more gold than top mines (Suwa, Japan facility)
For
all things wormy:
Worm's
Way carries greenhouses, irrigation systems, compost materials
and of course, worms!
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