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Community Voices

Transition Towns show benefits of planning for energy 'descent'

By Tim Wulling | 03/26/13

We've had a wonderful ride while ascending the energy mountain. We can have a good ride descending if we think carefully about where we're going.

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The Line

St. Paul's next hot neighborhood? Put your money on Payne Avenue

By Anna Pratt | 03/22/13

It's weathered exits and foreclosures, but now the proud old neighborhood is home to a hot new bar/restaurant, Ward 6, that's a force in a wider renewal.

Political Agenda

Lights out in St. Paul Saturday night for Earth Hour to promote conservation

By Joe Kimball | 03/21/13

The sidewalks won't be rolled up, but many big buildings will turn off their lights for an hour at 8:30 p.m. to promote energy conservation.

MinnClips

St. Patrick's Day aurora in Northern Minnesota

By Tom Nehil | 03/18/13

A special bit of green showed up early on St. Patrick's Day in Northern Minnesota.

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Cityscape

From brownfields to greenfields: No easy transition

By Marlys Harris | 03/15/13

I can see this is a problem in Newark, N.J. But as I learned, Minnesota is not so spanking clean either.

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Earth Journal

Nuclear power's future still cloudy as Fukushima passes second anniversary

By Ron Meador | 03/12/13

The entire nuclear industry may well have been permanently displaced by the events of two years ago, and not just in Japan.

Christian Science Monitor

Iran nuclear talks: Saudis, IAEA, voice doubt over Tehran's intentions

By Howard LaFranchi | 03/05/13

The Saudi foreign minister and director general of the UN's IAEA both voice suspicions that Iran is using nuclear talks as a delaying tactic to allow its nuclear program time to advance.

Christian Science Monitor

Deal at Czech nuclear power plant fuels US-Russia economic rivalry

By Tony Wesolowsky | 03/05/13

Companies with ties to the US and Russia are battling for a contract to expand a Czech nuclear power plant, which analysts say may be the gateway to kickstarting other nuclear power projects in Eastern Europe.

Global Post

Chernobyl copes with nuclear fallout a quarter-century on

By Jakub Parusinski | 02/25/13

As a new structure around the destroyed nuclear reactor goes up, life for locals remains blighted.

Legislators get earful on frac sand; public can get crash course on issues
Earth Journal

Legislators get earful on frac sand; public can get crash course on issues

By Ron Meador | 02/22/13

Hearings at the Legislature are a long look at problems associated with Minnesota's role in the national oil-and-gas boom.