Tag: environment
group name: publicradio
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February 01, 2007 05:59 PM EST --
Here's something we're thinking about for our next show: Many of us try to “do our part” for the environment. But that can mean vastly different things to different people. . . .
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August 17, 2006 09:20 AM EDT --
While a commentary asserts Minnesota's corn production faces multiple challenges, MPR's garden Weblog author Preston Wright ponders another aspect - the dilemma of corn as food or ethanol:
There . . .
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April 17, 2006 12:38 PM EDT --
Although it sounds like most people are conscious of their impact (or at least the size of their carbon footprint) I have to wonder what would happen if we all did one, small, proactive thing for the environment? . . .
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May 21, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Sometimes I'd hard pressed to trust - or even consider paying attention to - weather forecasts. Yeah, I'm a weather outlaw, ignoring predictions of weather conditions! I'll share my somewhat . . .
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August 10, 2006 10:38 AM EDT --
Maybe the real question is what will it take in gas prices before we start conserving in earnest.
From Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning program 08/10/06 Are we conserving yet?:
Most people are . . .
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December 29, 2006 11:45 AM EST --
Are you concerned that (within recorded history) Lake Superior is at an all-time low water level? We can easily understand how that affects the ore freighters and other boats, but how does this affect . . .
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July 20, 2007 01:18 PM EDT --
Reported by Stephanie Hemphill, Minnesota Public Radio July 20, 2007
State officials will lead a tour Friday of what could become Minnesota's newest state park, along the eastern shore . . .
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September 18, 2006 09:15 AM EDT --
From MPR News: See how one family lives 'off the grid'
The Juenemann's have invested time and money (according to the feature, $50,000) on solar and wind power for their home just north of . . .
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February 05, 2007 11:31 AM EST --
From the MPR Collection Life by Design:
"The word 'design' used to be relegated to the conversations of academics and engineers, but now it pops up in housekeeping magazines and department . . .
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November 23, 2009 09:07 PM EST --
The day of Thanksgiving has been designated by the Surgeon General as Family Health History day. For this week's post, we are setting Grant's genome aside and focusing on how our group is working . . .
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October 21, 2006 11:11 AM EDT --
Our home toilets were pre-regulation vintage, though met the industrial standard of 3.5 gallons per flush. Then Congress got into the toilet business with The Energy Policy and conservation Act of 1992, . . .
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June 08, 2007 05:05 PM EDT --
This week Stephanie Hemphill, MPR reporter in Duluth, reported on the effort to determine whether or not there is a link between taconite and health. Men in NE Minnesota are dying of a rare . . .
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May 06, 2006 12:07 AM EDT --
Dear fellow earthlings, welcome to my world. I've got 55 years of experience living in it and without a doubt the best things in it are free.But although we are supposedly the highest order of . . .
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April 17, 2006 10:06 AM EDT --
From American Public Media's Speaking of Faith:
Our guest founded the Green Belt Movement — a grassroots organization that empowers African women to improve their lives and conserve the environment . . .
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November 14, 2006 03:47 PM EST --
From Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning Success and sustainability :
Aveda manufactures cosmetics and says it has a mission to improve the environment. In the next Leadership series conversation, . . .
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May 02, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
They sound like heaven, but more and more of the world is becoming a challenging hell for the world's most beautiful songbirds.
Now, biologists find that the realm of Scarlet Tanagers and Indigo Buntings, . . .
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August 28, 2006 09:14 AM EDT --
On this end of the Mississippi, Minnesota's Midmorning show is Exploring the lessons of Katrina:
On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, a look at the impact of the disaster on the way race . . .
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April 02, 2007 08:22 AM EDT --
From Minnesota Public Radio News Toxic Traces Revisited:
In 2005, Minnesota Public Radio first raised questions about whether the state of Minnesota acted quickly enough to investigate contamination . . .
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December 27, 2006 10:21 AM EST --
Broadcast on Wednesday, December 27, 2006
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As energy costs and climate change made headlines in 2006, many businesses began to change their wasteful ways and adopt more sustainable . . .
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February 22, 2008 03:34 PM EST --
Does the environmental movement have the ability to create the political change needed to effectively stop or slow global warming?
Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger have been known . . .
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