‘Environment’ Archives
Boulevard Treasures
Kelly Shay created this autumn treasure at the October Minneapolis Edible Boulevards’ class: Maple Ginger Roasted Butternut Squash w/Green Beans and Corn. Photo by Edible Boulevards. By MICHELLE SHAW The Minneapolis Edible Boulevards Community Outreach Facilitator has been busy creating social media content, and we invite you to follow our new Instagram page. While you’re at it, join our Facebook page too. If you didn’t make it to our October cooking class with Kelly Shay, check out the recipe/video on our Facebook page. The Autumn Harvest Salad was absolutely delicious and perfect for using ingredients we’re growing in our gardens. For those who need a healthy recipe that doesn’t take much time, this is the one for you. Huge shout outs to Four Sisters Farm and Tamales y Bicicletas for hosting us on the Southside this summer and to the Seward Co-op, Eastside Co-op, Phillips Garden, and Lowe’s for sponsoring the classes and gardens this summer. On November 12, [...]
Urban Farm, Not Toxic Harm! City Taking Steps to Demolish the Historic Roof Depot Building
By THE EAST PHILLIPS NEIGHBORHOOD INSTITUTE Negotiations with the city of Minneapolis have failed, and now the city is proceeding with its planned demolition of the historic Roof Depot building at 1860 East 28th Street after walking out of negotiations with East Phillips residents. Now our families, our community and our environment face 888 diesel trucks and toxic arsenic that will further pollute our already overburdened neighborhood. East Phillips is being treated as an industrial wasteland, and it’s making our community members sick! The City Council was scheduled to take a vote on demolishing the Roof Depot building in late September. We can stop this if the East Phillips Neighborhood Institute (EPNI) can raise $200,000 to post bond for a legal injunction. The old Roof Depot site in the East Phillips neighborhood sits atop an arsenic plume where arsenic-based pesticides were produced and stored by a company that once occupied it. The building’s continued presence [...]
Spooky Greetings from Women’s Environmental Institute
By Shelia Bland, Women’s Environmental Institute Bugs, bees, bites, and bears And oh, the blackest of nights No chatter, or laughter or arguments outside but silences, hoots, creaks, and scares. If the moon is out the darkness abates, but the full moon sky casts an eerie glow It bears no semblance to streetlights! Things glow in the dark, And move across the black void Then suddenly float away. Crickets, frogs, wolves, and winds Some sounds never heard before And when there is no sound at all, the silence threatens to swallow you whole. Lost inside an emptiness you cannot see but also, cannot escape. So profound is this silence It dissolves all random thoughts That filled your between-the-ears space. You give in to perpetual wonder… Welcome to the countryside— A Back to the Future style trip Back to Nature! A trip to Women’s Environmental Institute Classes are available Free, For those who live, [...]
