September 2, 2008 – 7:17 am
I’ve always tried to support local farmers. I grow my own veggies in season, so am not a member of any of the Northfield area’s fine CSA operations, but I’ve purchased free-range chickens from several area chicken wranglers over the years. Starting this year, my family has been enjoying tasty chickens from the Latino [...]
When I was a freshman in college, President Jimmy Carter, in a televised speech to the nation on April 18 1977, warned of rapidly increasing dependence on foreign oil and the resulting out-of-control trade imbalances and loss of freedom to act in foreign affairs. He declared the effort to respond to this threat “the moral [...]
I was turned on to the use of rain barrels and rain gardens by the Cannon River Watershed Partnership’s spring 2006 education/grant program supporting stormwater run-off reduction practices. I received a cost-share grant from CRWP to get a rain garden full of native species established in my front yard, was inspired to launch a crazy [...]
The Northfield Energy Task Force is scheduled to meet with members of the City Council at the Council work session scheduled for 7 pm, July 28th at the Council Chambers. The Task Force and Council will be discussing recommendations contained in the report recently submitted to the Council by the Task Force. Some of [...]
I’ve toiled in the energy vineyards since I did my first energy audit in St. Paul in the summer of 1984. I worked for several nonprofit organizations between then and 1991, doing energy conservation/efficiency work (residential and commercial energy audits for the general population, energy audits for the federally funded low-income weatherization program, neighborhood energy [...]