Green Visions

Green Visions

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Green Visions episodes

  • Green Visions: Ash trees given new life as biochar
    With the help of researchers at NRRI, ash trees killed by the emerald ash borer are being repurposed in pilot projects in Minnesota as biochar . This material can filter harmful chemicals from storm water runoff, enhance soil microbial health, increase soil drought resistance and store carbon in soils to mitigate climate change. KUMD talks with Jim Doten from the City of Minneapolis Environmental Services and Health about how biochar is being piloted in the Twin Cities for environmental
    15 min
  • Green Visions: citizen-scientists can help track down "floating green scum"
    We've pretty much gotten the message that we - and our dogs - need to look out for blooms of cyanobacterial (blue-green) algae on lakes. But now they may be popping up on Lake Superior. Two factors contribute to algal blooms on the big lake: warm temperatures over a period of weeks that warm the lake water, and heavy rainfalls. There's not a lot of data yet, but those conditions were present in 2012 and 2018 - and so were big blooms of blue-green algae in the big lake. So a team of researchers
    14 min
  • Green Visions: wake boats or no wake boats? Send in the science
    The controversy over wake boats, the pricey recreational craft designed to make a huge wake for folks to board or ski on, threatens to swamp lakes, townships and counties across the state, particularly since Minnesota boating laws don't yet have anything to say about them, specifically. Enter science, in the form of the University of Minnesota's St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. They're actually crowdfunding a research study to look at boat wake impacts on Minnesota lakes . Groups like Safe Wakes
    15 min
  • Green Visions: "No amount of lawyers and chicanery is going to stop us from getting justice"
    Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has listened to oil companies try to dodge responsibility for pollution and climate change by arguing there are a lot of potential polluters and who can say who'se really responsible? So when he went after ExxonMobil Corp., the American Petroleum Institute, and three Koch Industries entities, he took a different tack. Armed with what he calls "strong consumer protection laws" in Minnesota, he charged them with fraud, failure to warn, and multiple separate
    12 min
  • Green Visions: "Don't drag the vestiges of your bad decisions; you want to walk through clean."
    Winona LaDuke is feeling pretty good today. The longtime Native American activist and advocate for sustainable development, renewable energy and local food systems is getting some rain on her crops this morning, and Monday, a district court ruled that the Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down and drained of oil by August 5th. LaDuke, also the executive director of the group Honor the Earth, has been battling the Dakota Access Pipeline project in North Dakota as well as the Enbridge Line 3
    12 min
  • An inhospitable climate is more than drought or storms or fire: it's having an "unwelcome identity"
    Longtime environmental advocate and community organizer Sam Grant says he had about "two weeks of normal" after starting his new job as the executive director of MN350 at the end of February. Then came COVID-19. But environmental concerns didn't take a backseat to the pandemic, even if the federal Environmental Protection Agency decided not to enforce environmental regulations for the duration. Grant's been quoted on that controversy as well as speaking at the news conference where Minnesota's
    19 min
  • Green Visions: "I decided I belong wherever I choose to be"
    "Every single morning that people of color get up, they have to factor into their day's activities, 'What are white people going to think of the things that I'm going to be doing today?'  I have to think about what I'm doing to do.  And white people never have to think about what people of color are going to think of their activities. They never have to consider us when they get up in the morning. But we do. Every single day." We're proud of living in a community that's the
    16 min

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Green Visions: Exploring Local Environmental Challenges & SolutionsEvery Wednesday at 8:20am, Green Visions on The North 103.3FM, hosted by Luke Moravec, brings you compelling conversations about…

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