North Star Blog

350.org co-founder Jamie Henn has complied a jaw-dropping list of fossil fuel COVID-19 grifts in the works. In Minnesota too, there are troubling developments.

The plastic revolution has transformed the things we make and use. However, the 20th century revolution has become a 21st century disaster and created a “planet plastic” with massive environmental contamination in evidence everywhere. What should be...

Clean Energy Committee member Dale Lutz says that of the many projects he’s been involved in, his current favorite is investigating how to wean ourselves off fossil fuel by “recycling” CO2 greenhouse gas and combining it with water and low-carbon...

Satish Desai’s interest in climate issues began in the early 1980s, when he watched the documentary series “Cosmos.” This made him aware of the threat posed by climate change years before many people heard of it. In response to the results of the...

In Minnesota we know, no matter what we look like, where we live, or what’s in our wallets, this critical moment in history reminds us that we’re all human. We are all connected, sharing one planet and our fates are tied together. Without question,...

Today, in response to calls from local advocates to extend the public comment period on a key water crossing permit for Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced an extension of just one week....

In normal circumstances, I’d be happy to disappear into my room with popcorn and Netflix for days on end. By all means, I should be happy that everyone is practicing social isolation. Yay, more introverts! Easier excuses! Less pressure to go...

Minnesotans care for one another and our planet. Clean water and a healthy climate for our children are values we all share. Yet despite the ongoing climate crisis, Wall Street continues to pour money into fossil fuel projects significant to...

A proposed fracked gas power plant near the Twin Ports puts our health — and the natural environment — at risk. Why is the Sierra Club against this proposal? Where are we in the (long, slow, and bureaucratic) approval process? And what can you do to...

I’m old enough to remember when the downtown Minneapolis garbage burner, euphemistically named the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) was built. The garbage burner's test run involved burning paper city residents had put out for recycling: the...