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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

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Families flock to Richfield backyard for 'duck encounters'

Families flock to Richfield backyard for 'duck encounters'

In one Richfield backyard, there isn’t your usual lawn furniture or swing set. Instead, there’s a royal blue, pink and turquoise hand-painted duck coop, multiple miniature swimming pools and a garden featuring one of the Heinen fowls’ favorites: tomatoes.
by Gracie Stockton

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Follow Minnesota's green transition with MPR News Getting to Green series

Follow Minnesota's green transition with MPR News Getting to Green series

Minnesota leaders set an ambitious goal to be carbon-neutral by 2050. What will it take to carry out Minnesota’s green energy transition? Here at MPR News we’re tracking Minnesota’s clean energy progress, in a series called Getting to Green.
by Paul Huttner and Ngoc Bui

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Burnsville officials report 'unusual number' of calls about raccoons acting strangely

Burnsville officials report 'unusual number' of calls about raccoons acting strangely

“These raccoons have been observed to be staggering, experiencing seizures, unafraid of their surroundings and allowing people to approach them, or laying/slumped for an extended period of time,” the city reported this week.
by Andrew Krueger

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The military is turning to microgrids to fight global threats — and global warming

The military is turning to microgrids to fight global threats — and global warming

The military is among the largest buyers of independent power systems known as microgrids. They make tactical sense; and environmentalists hope they can help the transition from fossil fuels.
by Quil Lawrence

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Health care has a massive carbon footprint. These doctors are trying to change that

Health care has a massive carbon footprint. These doctors are trying to change that

Around the country, health care workers continue to grapple with their industry's massive carbon footprint. In Pittsburgh, doctors formed Clinicians for Climate Action to address the problem.
by Reid Frazier

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How everyday people started a movement that's shaping climate action to this day

How everyday people started a movement that's shaping climate action to this day

Discover how a group of local citizens in a poor, rural, majority Black community came together to fight an iconic battle for environmental justice — and how their work laid a path that leads right up to today.
by Rund Abdelfatah, Ramtin Arablouei, Devin Katayama, Lawrence Wu, Julie Caine, Cristina Kim, Casey Miner, Anya Steinberg, Peter Balonon-Rosen, Irene Noguchi and Akshara Ravishankar

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