Green Visions

Green Visions

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Green Visions episodes

  • Green Visions: another reason to be excited about the Duluth to the Cities route
    If Minnesota is going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% in the next 30 years , we need to take a hard look at transportation. Our gas-powered vehicles are responsible for most of it. Next week, the Minnesota Department of Transportation will host a public meeting at AICHO to look at some possible solutions and get ideas and feedback on a program called Pathways to Decarbonizing Transportation . Sessions will be held in the afternoon and evening so folks can attend even if they're working
    15 min
  • Green Visions: A Renewed Threat to the Boundary Waters Environment
    Last week the US Bureau of Land Management renewed mineral exploration leases for Twin Metals, a crucial step in the Chilean-owned mining company’s bid to develop a large copper-nickel mine adjacent to the Boundary Waters. On Green Visions this week we are joined by Tom Landwehr, Executive Director of the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters and former Minnesota DNR commissioner who shares his concerns on how this project will impact America's most popular wilderness area.
    12 min
  • Green Visions: a solar "welcome to Duluth" and some top-secret public art
    Ecolibrium3 likes to say they sit at the nexus of energy, equity and economic vitality. The new Lincoln Park Solar Garden, however, will sit behind the M&H gas station along I-35 and Michigan Street. And the project will not only generate energy, it will help folks suffering with "energy poverty" and veterans, too. More information about the Lincoln Park Solar Garden is here. More information about the SUNraiser is here.
    9 min
  • "How do we put the economy in service to the sacred?"
    Most cash registers are ready for it. Most retailers know it's coming. Over two thousand people in Duluth have signed a pledge to support it. Even the ordinance has basically been written. So why hasn't the Duluth City Council moved ahead with the proposed initiative to place a nominal charge on single use carryout bags, eliminate non-compostable plastic straws (and offer alternatives only on demand) and phase out Styrofoam™ to-go containers? More information about Bag It, Duluth's screening of
    19 min
  • Earth Day Green Visions Special: Community-based Renewable Energy and the Future of Energy Democracy
    In a special full-length podcast, KUMD's Adam Reinhardt investigates the concept of Energy Democracy and the possibility of expanding citizen participation in energy production as the world transitions to renewables. Focusing on Germany as our key example, Adam talks with Craig Morris, author of Energy Democracy: Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables. He also talks with Anya Schoolman, Executive Director of US-based solar advocacy group Solar United Neighbors. To conclude, Dr. Josef Pesch, a
    1 hr 6 min
  • Green Visions: Earth Day: it's not just for clean-up anymore
    The scope of Earth Day has expanded since the first observation April 22, 1070. Even though UMD students will still be out Tuesday, April 23 for an Earth Day clean-up at the Bagley Nature Area , the president of the Student Sustainability Coalition will spend Monday explaining the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals each country needs to achieve by 2030. The UN has also released The Lazy Person's Guide to Saving the World , which includes an entire list of actions you can take without
    8 min
  • Green Visions: walking the walk ... but listening instead
    Tone Lanzillo re-thought pretty much his whole life over the last three years or so ... The former mental health worker decided to downsize and relocate his life so he could find a community in which he could make a difference. But no one was as surprised as he to see his two-week stay in Duluth turn into a permanent gig. Here, he found a place he could make a difference. But be careful of what ideas you float to a group of UMD students: a tossed-out idea at an MPIRG meeting last year resulted
    15 min
  • Green Visions: "all our decisions matter"
    Don't try to tell Mary Franz that individuals can't affect the trajectory of climate change. The organizing director of MPIRG at UMD says all our decisions matter. And if we look for them, we can see the components of change all around us. The Our Planet, Our Future: Environmental Summit will be held March 28; you can find more information here.
    9 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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