It’s summer, and I’m looking forward to storms. I’m a storm spotter for Metro Skywarn, the “eyes in the skies” for the National Weather Service. You may remember the severe wind storms of June 21-23, 2013. Trees were down all over the metro and up to 600,000 Xcel Energy customers …
Now that summer is here, I’ve noticed more and more people have put their Little Free Libraries up in their yards. Seeing them as I walk around my neighborhood always puts a smile on my face because they combine three of my favorite things: books, reuse, and community-building. Little Free …
May is Gardening for Wildlife Month, and I’d like to take the opportunity to remind people that the term wildlife encompasses more than just birds and butterflies. Too often, when people think about wildlife or biodiversity in their garden, those two groups are the only things that come to mind. …
A few weeks ago, I participated in the University of Minnesota’s Sustainability Symposium. It was a wonderful event that brought undergraduates and graduate students from multiple University of Minnesota campuses to the Saint Paul campus to share the work they’ve done with sustainability. As a Conservation Biology graduate student at …
As of last week, Saint Paul residents are able to recycle a wider range of plastic products in their curbside recycling bins. This is because Eureka Recycling, Saint Paul’s recycling provider has begun accepting plastics coded with #4 and #5, in addition to the already accepted #1 and #2. Residents …
