‘Environment’ Archives
What’s been happening at San Pablo’s Lutheran Church on 15th Ave and 28th Street?
By RADICLE LAND COLLECTIVE The chaos of demo. SOURCE: RLC The community at San Pablo’s/Saint Paul’s is getting ready to install a peace and healing garden, complete with a meditative labyrinth. The first step to creating something like that is to prep the area and get rid of the grass! At Radicle, we try to process and keep as much as we can on site. This helps by reducing the need for transportation of waste material off site to another processing area, and keeps raw material for our use in the spring. With jumping worms being an increasing concern, keeping all material on site reduces the need to bring soil that may have the worms in it on site, and if the jumping worms are already present, keeps us from unintentionally spreading them. Jumping worms are especially dangerous to our local ecology because they are voracious eaters of our native wildflower root systems, and the ‘soil’ they leave behind changes the way water moves through soil, which alters the [...]
Community, Health, Education, and Labor Leaders Unite in Call at City Council to Close HERC Trash Burner Hearing
Newly proposed resolution would call for a shutdown date for the facility and seeks restitution for residents impacted by the incinerator By ZERO BURN COALITION Attendees at an October 10th hearing on the permanent closure of Minneapolis’ HERC trash incinerator. PHOTO: Devon Young Cupery The Minneapolis City Council’s Climate & Infrastructure Committee held a public hearing on October 10 focusing on a resolution to support the permanent closure of the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC). The resolution marks a significant step in addressing decades of environmental and health concerns raised by local residents, scientists, and environmental advocates. The resolution calls for a definitive closure date for HERC, restitution for communities impacted by the facility’s 35 years of operation, and frontline community leadership in determining the future of the site. It also urges the City to implement its 2017 Zero Waste Plan, aiming to reduce waste and promote [...]
Zero Burn Coalition Requests
Help to Close the Hennepin County Trash Incinerator
By THE ZERO BURN COALITION The Zero Burn Coalition, comprised of over 30 organizations and hundreds of individuals, is working on all fronts to shut down the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center (HERC) trash incinerator located in downtown Minneapolis by the end of 2025.One big next step is to get the city of Minneapolis to pass a resolution calling for Hennepin County to close HERC, which we’re hoping the City Council will be taking up this month.Why is shutting down HERC an urgent priority, and how can it be shut down by 2025?Contrary to what Hennepin County argues, HERC has been poisoning communities closeby ever since it began burning trash in 1989. Nurses, teachers, parents, bus drivers, and other neighbors have attested to the fact that asthma rates and other health issues are higher in neighborhoods near HERC as opposed to neighborhoods farther away. Scientists now back them up. And regulations cannot keep up with the industry; HERC is burning chemicals that we don’t know the [...]
