Few teachers would tolerate students standing on their desks and shouting, much less encourage it. But for science teacher Yosefa Carriger, nothing is off the table if it will help […]

By Dayna Ball, Communications Intern This summer, the MWMO welcomed a Mississippi River Green Team alumni intern: Yengsoua Lee. After spending two years on the Mississippi River Green Team from […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

(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 […]

By Max Dalton It has been exactly one year since our solar array began producing electricity here at our Stormwater Park and Learning Center, and it is already adding to […]

Images and story courtesy Clean Water Minnesota. Adult students learning English at Harmony Learning Center in Maplewood, Minn. are becoming water stewards as they learn idioms and conjugate verbs. These […]

Images and story courtesy Clean Water Minnesota. Uptown Wedge resident Joe Knaeble is concerned with a problem that is mostly invisible: increasing levels of salt in groundwater due to its […]