The Cannon River Watershed Partnership has been selected by the MPCA to receive and Environmental Assessment Grant to work on Low Impact Development Ordinances in the Watershed. The grant will go into effect in July 2007 and run through June 2009.
The timing is fortuitous, since the City is updating its land use regulations. Though the [...]
The online magazine Grist has a great little article/post about “What Bike-Friendly Looks Like” which, in addition to detailed information about how more progressive cities treat this issue, brought my attention to a visually inspiring photo gallery which graphically illustrates ways a community can incorporate multiple means of mobility into their infrastructure.
I wonder if we’d [...]
Yesterday’s Star Tribune also had an editorial about the importance of sustainability and smarter spending for development. The governor and legislators working to pass House and Senate bills establishing a bipartisan Sustainable Growth Working Group whose tasks would include agreeing on principles for guiding Minnesota’s growth.
The nation faces an unstable energy future, as petroleum supplies [...]
March 26, 2007 – 11:46 pm
In his introduction to the line-up of speakers for the opening session of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Main Street Program, “Building a Sustainable Future”, National Director Doug Loescher repeated a question that my colleague Tracy Davis asked, semi-rhetorically, some time ago.
“What is Sustainability?”
Doug said that in spite of all the media attention, from [...]
November 17, 2006 – 5:01 pm
As you know from recent blogs by both Tracy and me, Northfield is looking at Low Impact Development. There are a number of emerging technologies that can help protect our streams, rivers and lakes but one that is getting a lot of attention right now is the Green Roof.
Fortunately, we don’t have to visit exotic [...]
October 18, 2006 – 5:51 am
LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a rating system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council to encourage “green building†by establishing common standards of measurement, promoting best practices, recognizing leadership in the building industry, raising consumer awareness, and ultimately to transform the building market.
One of the things the Northfield Planning Commission [...]
Locally Grown has been chosen to test an innovative project called Representative Journalism (RepJ). Bonnie Obremski is the RepJ reporter/journalist currently assigned to Northfield.
RepJ stories by Bonnie Obremski