North Star Blog

I’ll admit that, being a city dweller for most of my life, I’ve only learned about the importance of agricultural buffers fairly recently. I grew up in a small Wisconsin town surrounded by cornfields and dairy farms, but it never occurred to me that...

Coming to the Capitol for a Citizen Lobby Day is one of the best ways to participate in the Sierra Club North Star Chapter’s work at the legislature! I was happy to join the Sierra Club and others for the Clean Energy and Jobs Campaign Lobby Day in...

Saturday, March 7, a group of about 20 hikers gathered at our historic St. Paul Union Depot for a Sierra Club urban parks hike. Though entirely on paved trail, the route is about 6 miles long and so is not easily doable as a round trip by average...

Many consider leaders like Al Gore and Rachel Carson to be the faces of modern environmentalism. However, equally important are the leaders of the American environmental justice movement, which was born out of the civil rights movement of the 1960s...

I love my bike, and my Go-To Card. My bike has helped me stay healthy, save money, learn my way around the Twin Cities, and experience the Minnesota outdoors in all four seasons (yes, even winter.) To me, having good bike trails and transit options...

It’s February – the holidays are well behind us, but winter is far from releasing its grip. This is the time of year in which the luster of cold-weather activities begins to wear off, winter carnivals and events wind down, and you find yourself...

Transportation is one of the top issues at the State Legislature this year and is already getting a lot of media attention. As it should–investing in a modern transportation system is critical for Minnesota’s economic competitiveness and quality of...

This legislative session, the Sierra Club is privileged to be working with John Hottinger as our advocate at the State Capitol. John recently stepped down from his position as a volunteer leader on the Executive Committee after seven years of board...

A coalition of organizations has developed a national campaign to save the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) from proposed copper-nickel, or sulfide, mining projects that would inject toxic waste into the pristine waters of the nation’s...

In this report, we document the true cost of Minnesota’s oil addiction. We also provide solutions to solve the energy crisis in our state. Minnesota is at a crossroads. We can continue to send billions of dollars out of our local economy each year...