By Erica Rivera January 15, 2019 You reduce, reuse, and recycle. Your primary mode of transportation is on two wheels. These are all laudable eco-friendly habits, but you can do even more to help our planet and its perils by changing your diet—and it doesn’t have to be hard. “Climate change is real, it is […]
By Elizabeth Dunbar January 10, 2019 https://media.climategen.org/20190110-mprnews-dunbar-youth-climate-gov-walz.mp3 A group of passionate Minnesota teenagers hopes 2019 will be the year state government gets serious about climate change. Dozens of high school students from across the state packed the governor’s office for a meeting Wednesday, urging Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Minnesota Pollution Control […]
By Hannah Jones January 9, 2019 More than a few people have tried to tell Maddy Fernands, a sophomore at Edina High School, that she has been worrying over nothing. While door-knocking to support legislation addressing climate change, she’s been told that “you never know” what the future will actually bring, and that what we’re […]
By Frank Jossi January 10, 2019 A group of high school students Wednesday asked Minnesota’s new governor to pass an executive order to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and propose a plan to reduce the impact of climate change by promoting renewable energy. A coalition of groups led by the clean change youth organization iMatter and […]
By Erin Hinrichs January 10, 2019 Minnesota youth filled the hallway outside of the governor’s reception room at the state Capitol on Wednesday afternoon, waiting for their first meeting with Gov. Tim Walz. Many wore white T-shirts decorated with their demands. And a cardboard cutout of planet Earth, worn by one of the students, drifted […]
By Elizabeth Dunbar January 10, 2019 A group of passionate Minnesota teenagers hopes 2019 will be the year state government gets serious about climate change. Dozens of high school students from across the state packed the governor’s office for a meeting Wednesday, urging Gov. Tim Walz, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency […]
By Eric Holthaus January 10, 2019 On Wednesday, more than 100 youth from across the state ascended the snow-free steps of the Minnesota capitol building to meet with newly inaugurated Governor Tim Walz and demand comprehensive action on climate change. The group, Minnesota Can’t Wait, was there to push for a Green New Deal. Organizers […]
By Jesse Turck The 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) brought together around 200 countries to continue the worldwide initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. After two weeks of negotiations and strategizing, this COP saw the creation of the official rulebook for implementing the Paris Agreement. Minnesota, a member of the U.S. […]
By Michelle Courtright January 4, 2019 With the latest IPCC report on the dire effects of climate change, we know the status quo is no longer an option if we want our economy to survive the upcoming decades of droughts, fires, flooding, food shortages and mass migration. The University of Chicago recently reported that if […]
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