Synopsis
A feature on Duluth, Minnesota public radio station's Northland Morning program focusing on local environmental issues, heard Wednesdays at 8:20 a.m on 103.3fm or streaming at kumd.org.
Episodes
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Green Visions: "A lot of these projects are going under the radar"
17/11/2021 Duration: 08minUMD students aim to raise awareness, put a stop to proposed Nemadji Trail Energy Center fracked gas plant
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Green Visions: "This is a festival of greenwashing" - live from the COP26 summit in Glasgow
10/11/2021 Duration: 12min"We need our U.S. leaders to be honest: that it's a human rights issue, and that we have to change business as usual."
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Green Visions: "It's a trophy. And do we want revenge? You bet."
03/11/2021 Duration: 15min"It's very clear that in the Ojibwe creation story, the wolf is a brother to the Anishinaabe. And what will happens to one will happen to the other."
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Green Visions: The Northern Hawk Owl Project
27/10/2021 Duration: 08minResearch that hopes to reveal more about the life of this iconic bird.
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Green Visions: the Icelandite Coastal Fen
13/10/2021 Duration: 11min"I have fallen in love with this place.Coasted along its currents and found it to beThe last place."
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Green Visions: doing away with farming monocultures
06/10/2021 Duration: 09min"This program is designed to bring along the next generation of cropS - not crop."
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Green Visions: climate change will cost Minnesota's workforce
29/09/2021 Duration: 14minWhat happens as more and more, it becomes too hot to work outside?
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Green Visions: Lake Superior is bigger than we think
22/09/2021 Duration: 13min"Humility is something Anishinaabe must walk towards"
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Green Visions: the not-so-vibrant hues of stressed trees
15/09/2021 Duration: 10min“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a (dead) flower.” ~ with apologies to Albert Camus
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Green Visions: Lawns to Legumes
01/09/2021 Duration: 08minHow Minnesotans can make their lawns more welcoming for our pollinator friends.
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Green Visions
11/08/2021 Duration: 09minA picture's worth a thousand words when it comes to storytelling
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Green Visions: dumped goldfish are the finny canaries in the coal mines of our lakes
04/08/2021 Duration: 17minPeople still haven't got the message that turning unwanted goldfish loose into your local lake, pond, or slough is a bad idea.
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Green Visions: "the legislature is more aggressive in preventing people from doing their jobs"
28/07/2021 Duration: 14minOpponents of the PolyMet mine, like opponents of Line 3, are steeped in the arcana of permits and hearings and acronyms for agencies like the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the state DNR.
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Green Visions: "We can't dodge these elements of power"
21/07/2021 Duration: 15minIt was supposed to be a chance for scientists, Indigenous organizers and leaders, and a broad swath of regional decision-makers at all levels to come together and see first-hand what the drought is doing to the lakes and rivers in northern Minnesota.
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Green Visions: Right project (possibly); wrong place
14/07/2021 Duration: 09minThe folks concerned about rezoning a chunk of land off Vassar Street in the Woodland neighborhood aren't opposed to more housing going up; they just aren't sure right above the Amity Creek watershed is the right place for it.
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Green Visions: harnessing the unstopppable energy of
07/07/2021 Duration: 16minThere's nothing quite like the energy of young people these days.
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Green Visions: make a float plan for Minnesota's newest National Water Trail
23/06/2021 Duration: 10minThe St. Louis River isn't going to take a back seat to Lake Superior any longer.