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Getting to Green: Minnesota’s energy future

Getting to Green is an MPR News series that shares stories about Minnesota’s clean energy transition, including what needs to be done to get there.

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MPR Top Coast Festival: Ramez Naam & Jon Foley on global environment

MPR Top Coast Festival: Ramez Naam & Jon Foley on global environment

Computer scientist and futurist Ramez Naam speaks with global environment expert Jonathan Foley at MPR's Top Coast Festival about the ways technology can, and can't, address our energy, climate and environmental problems. They say technological innovation is only as good as our political will and the moral judgments of humans allow it to be.

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Minn. program rewards farmers who keep pollutants from waterways

Minn. program rewards farmers who keep pollutants from waterways

A Red River Valley farming operation became the first to be certified under the Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program, which rewards farmers who go the extra mile to reduce pollution.
by Dan Gunderson

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Black flies: Everywhere, looking for a meal (that means you)

Black flies: Everywhere, looking for a meal (that means you)

It's turning out to be quite the year for black flies. Up north, loons are abandoning their eggs. They're fleeing the insects attacking them at their nests. Black fly counts are up too in the metro area. MPR's Phil Picardi spoke with Mike McLean, who's with the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District, about the matter.
by Phil Picardi

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Explosion of black flies forces loons to abandon nests

Explosion of black flies forces loons to abandon nests

Flies have forced about 70 percent of nesting loons in an area of north-central Wisconsin to leave their eggs. That's more than twice the highest rate of abandonment in the past 22 years.
by Dan Kraker

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Minn. ethanol producers wait on word from EPA

Ethanol producers like those in Minnesota's $2 billion a year industry are worried the EPA will effectively order a cut in ethanol production.
by Mark Steil

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Environmental groups want Xcel to use tiered energy pricing

Currently, Xcel charges its residential customers a flat rate per kilowatt hour -- whether they are the type of person who conserves, or one who leaves the lights on all the time. But that doesn't encourage people to save energy, members of the environmental groups say.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Golf courses turn to water technology

Golf courses turn to water technology

Golf courses are looking at better technology, not only to let them use stormwater for irrigating grass but to better determine how much water to use and what grass might use less. University of Minnesota professor Brian Horgan explains.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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Golf courses start to reuse stormwater to keep grass green

Golf courses start to reuse stormwater to keep grass green

One of the first places Minnesotans are starting to find ways to reuse water is on the golf course. Two Twin Cities suburbs have launched projects to capture stormwater and use it for irrigation.
by Elizabeth Dunbar

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