‘Environment’ Archives
What’s New With the East Phillips Indoor Urban Farm Project?
By EAST PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD INSTITUTE We’re bringing healing, fresh food, and good jobs to East Phillips by converting the Roof Depot warehouse into an indoor urban farm and community hub. This project is stewarded by East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI), come join us! Here are some updates: EPNI launched a newsletter! Sign up at linktr.ee/epnifarmGet your hands dirty with EPNI’s Farm Team on June 7th and June 21st for this month’s Seed Saturdays! Starting at 11 am at 2428 17th Ave S, Minneapolis.This spring, EPNI raised nearly $600,000 to support future outdoor farm programming and water stewardship at the Roof Depot site. Join EPNI’s Farm Team on June 25th at 5:30 pm for a Community Workshop about growing, cooking, and celebrating summer greens. Learn more about this and other June events on our website: epnifarm.org/calendarCome build a brighter future with us! Find ways to get involved and follow along online at linktr.ee/epnifarm.
Grow With Us Invitation – MPLS Edible Boulevards
By MICHELLE SHAW If you live in one of these Neighborhoods: Cedar-Riverside, Ventura Village (Phillips), Phillips West, Midtown Phillips, East Phillips, Seward, Cooper, Hiawatha, Howe, Longfellow, or Powderhorn Park, you are invited to apply to be a Minneapolis Edible Boulevard Participant. Mpls. Edible Boulevards (a small NGO-Non-Profit) helps neighbors grow safe, healthy food right where they live – at home, outside a school, a business, or a place of worship. Mpls. Edible Boulevards focuses on partnering with Residents of Green Zone Neighborhoods, the first six Neighborhoods above are the Southside Green Zone; and then, any adjacent Neighborhood Residents that are interested. A Green Zone is an area identified as having the worst environmental injustices and health disparities in Minneapolis. There are two: the Southside and Northside Green Zones. Minneapolis Edible Boulevards offers Participants:Free soil testing,Garden instructionGarden resources for [...]
EPNI-CEF Collaboration Brings Energy Justice and Savings to Phillips Residents
By KYLE SAMEJIMA Cooperative Energy Futures (CEF), a local energy cooperative based out of Sabathani Community Center at 310 E 38th St, is actively partnering with East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) on energy justice and community-owned renewable energy. EPNI and CEF recently won a Department of Energy Community Energy Innovation Prize for a proposal to develop the “largest urban solar array within two miles of a downtown in the United States.” The array would provide an estimated $9.4 million to the East Phillips community over a 25 year period, while contributing to a more cyclical and just localized economy. It would power an estimated 200 homes, and offset carbon emissions from the proposed indoor urban farm operations by 50%. The project is in the planning stages, and CEF is honored and thrilled to be an active partner with EPNI. The good news is that community members do not have to wait for the completion of this project to participate in the benefits of a [...]
