Go Green

The Minnesota Department of Commerce Home Energy Guide offers some advice to help maintain your clothes dryer, reduce energy use, and keep your home safe: Why not dry clothes by hanging them in the basement? Hanging clothes on lines or racks in the basement — especially in the winter when the house is dry — […]

An underground fire smolders toward radioactive waste tied to the atomic bombs that leveled Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This subterranean inferno threatens to sicken area residents just 10 miles from the site of the controversial police-involved death of Michael Brown.

Everyone wants clean air and [to] reduce the effects of global warming, but we must make sure that we have clean, healthy jobs, focusing in on communities that really need jobs. It’s not so much about the clean power plan but it’s a vehicle that gets us to a better place.”

Earth Day comes around every year on April 22 and gives us a chance to celebrate our planet and take action to protect it.

If your business can reduce the use of chemicals known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), you may be eligible for a grant from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA).

Warm days mean barbecues, ballgames and outdoor adventure. Unfortunately, all that sun and fun can introduce a greater risk of skin woes for you and your family.

The biggest challenge at the Reverend Dr. Earl D. Trent, Jr.’s historic Black church is raising enough money to do the Lord’s work. Trent, pastor of Washington, D.C.’s Florida Avenue Baptist Church, was grappling with that very issue five years ago when he heard a presentation about how going green could reduce utility costs.

Spring cleaning season is right around the corner. Stay green when you clean: learn about household hazardous waste — found in many household products — and ways to reduce it while keeping your home safe and clean.

It’s quite a process to get delicious maple syrup from the tree to your table each spring. Come to a maple syruping event and check it out for yourself.

Unless you only buy foods that are certified organic or marked as “GMO-free,” odds are that a great deal of the food you eat contains genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

A Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) internal review has found inconsistent — and in some cases inadequate — procedures associated with the handling of some drinking water samples by its Environmental Health Division.

On January 26 at 10:15 am, 25 members of local climate change activist group MN350 entered the lobby of US Bank at the corner of Hennepin and University, chanting “US Bank, do some good, get Enbridge out of our neighborhood.”