The Goodsell Observatory at Carleton College is open to the public the first Friday of every month. At the previous open house, a Brownie troop saw Venus and Saturn. See…
Locally Grown (LoGro) Northfield Posts
Are these clocks still made at the Northfield Middle School? Was there ever any educational benefit?
The first chapter (free on NY Times) of Malcolm Gladwell’s latest best-selling book, Outliers, details the 1950’s medical mystery of Roseto, Pennsylvania. Why such a low incidence of heart disease, suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, and crime? Researchers ruled out diet, exercise, genetics, and environmental conditions… and eventually declared that it was the town itself that was responsible. The hard and soft social capital of the Italian community was what made the difference.
A blogger in Lowell, MA details this wonderfully in a blog post titled: Malcolm Gladwell, Social Capital, the ‘Roseto Effect,’ and Lowell.
The StarTribune website posted a “Northfield First” story this evening. One of the biggest lessons the children have learned, Martin said, is that they are valuable members of the community.…
The World Wide Web is 20 years old this month, though it really wasn’t until the availability of the Mosaic/Netscape browsers in 1994 that plain old citizens could surf the…
I’m running my own social experiment on Twitter, trying to get people to tweet about items of local importance on Tuesdays, using the hashtag (label) #TLT for Tweet Local Tuesday…
The Northfield Blogosphere Roundup is a good way to see the latest information on many of the area’s blogs. The updates included here show blog posts added approximately within the previous 48 hours. See Northfield.org’s blogosphere aggregator page for an automated, comprehensive listing.
Food and energy is something we cannot go without, and the farther these two come from where we use them, the less sustainable they are, this is a matter of logic and economic fact not a matter of opinion, or political leaning, or weather we agree or disagree on global trade.
The fact is that we don’t account for the full cost of our foods and have been living under the illusion that a banana is really only $0.75 cents a pound. It isn’t, what happens is that we are only paying for a small part of the full cost of producing it, bringing it from Brazil or Central America and delivering it to our stores and picking it up. The carbon emitted, the water, soil and air pollution in the production cycle, and many other costs are just being passed on for others to pay, either down the rivers and oceans, or down to the next generation.
I’m not sure at what point during the singing of Sherry Baby that he was making this face and gesture, but Northfield High School Principal Joel Leer does a mean…
Just like the Wicked Witch, area ice rinks are melting rapidly. Last Thursday morning at 6am, it was minus 6. This morning, it was 40, with the high today predicted…