Content Type: Blog Post

The Transition Habitats exhibit at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden.

Transition Habitats make their debut at the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

If you’ve visited the newly reopened Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, you might have noticed a bright pink mailbox with an attached wildflower bed at the garden’s north end. Indeed, this eye-catching […]
June 22, 2017
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MWMO monitoring team members boating across the Mississippi River to the next sampling site.

In Photos: Monitoring Water Quality with the MWMO

By Dayna Ball, Communications Intern The MWMO monitoring team works throughout the year — through rain, heat and freezing Minnesota winters — to work toward improving water quality in the watershed. […]
June 8, 2017
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Students collecting river water samples.

High school students explore the value of the Mississippi River

Have you ever turned on the tap to fill a glass of water and considered where the water comes from? Or poured it down the drain and wondered where it […]
April 25, 2017
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A designer reviews rain garden planting plans.

Art, education and clean water: 2017 Action Grant awards announced

We’re excited to kick off the 2017 construction season with an interesting array of Action Grant projects! The projects this season will help finalize an environmental learning space at a […]
April 17, 2017
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The CDS parking lot project team.

From eyesore to eye-catching, nonprofit’s new parking lot fights pollution

To some, fixing a worn-out parking lot might not seem an obvious way to strike a blow for environmental justice. But Children’s Dental Services is an organization that thinks big. […]
April 3, 2017
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Looking up at a tree.

To Protect Our Water Resources, Plant a Tree

Trees are the unsung heroes of urban life. It’s hard to overstate their benefits: They filter pollution out of the air, lower our energy bills, undercut the misery of summer […]
March 27, 2017
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May Lee with students.

Planting native seeds with a new generation

Master Gardener May Lee stands about a head taller than the third-graders at Farnsworth Elementary she is teaching to plant native seeds this March morning in east St. Paul. Clearly, […]
March 23, 2017
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The sidewalk at the Columbia Heights Library.

No salt required: sidewalk snowmelt system fights snow and ice

If you’re from the Twin Cities, you’re likely no stranger to the hazards posed by icy pavement. Salt and deicers may seem like necessary evils when it comes to keeping […]
March 21, 2017
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Barb Spears and Teri Heyer

Tree-Huggers Unite: Protecting Urban Tree Canopies

(Story and photos courtesy cleanwatermn.org.) While the Twin Cities’ verdant tree canopy of summer, and golden version of fall are distant memories in these short winter days, now is the […]
February 21, 2017
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