Content Type: Blog Post

Looking up at a tree.

To Protect Our Water Resources, Plant a Tree

Trees are the unsung heroes of urban life. It’s hard to overstate their benefits: They filter pollution out of the air, lower our energy bills, undercut the misery of summer […]
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May Lee with students.

Planting native seeds with a new generation

Master Gardener May Lee stands about a head taller than the third-graders at Farnsworth Elementary she is teaching to plant native seeds this March morning in east St. Paul. Clearly, […]
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The sidewalk at the Columbia Heights Library.

No salt required: sidewalk snowmelt system fights snow and ice

If you’re from the Twin Cities, you’re likely no stranger to the hazards posed by icy pavement. Salt and deicers may seem like necessary evils when it comes to keeping […]
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Barb Spears and Teri Heyer

Tree-Huggers Unite: Protecting Urban Tree Canopies

(Story and photos courtesy cleanwatermn.org.) While the Twin Cities’ verdant tree canopy of summer, and golden version of fall are distant memories in these short winter days, now is the […]
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Solar panels.

We Reduced our Energy Consumption, and You Can Too

By Max Dalton It has been exactly one year since our solar array began producing electricity here at our Stormwater Park and Learning Center, and it is already adding to […]
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Digging a hole with a shovel.

Four New Mini Grant Projects Awarded Funding

The Mississippi Watershed Management Organization has awarded funding to four new Mini Grant projects for 2017, supporting a variety of community efforts to protect clean water and habitat. Mini Grants […]
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A group of English language learners study a mural at the Maplewood Mall.

Recent Immigrants Become Water Stewards

Images and story courtesy Clean Water Minnesota. Adult students learning English at Harmony Learning Center in Maplewood, Minn. are becoming water stewards as they learn idioms and conjugate verbs. These […]
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Uptown Wedge resident Joe Knaeble.

The Iceman Cometh—Sidewalk Salt Pollutes Our Lakes and Streams

Images and story courtesy Clean Water Minnesota. Uptown Wedge resident Joe Knaeble is concerned with a problem that is mostly invisible: increasing levels of salt in groundwater due to its […]
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Abdikadir Mohamed Adan, aka "Macalin Xiito"

A Somali Leader Speaks Out for Clean Water

Video can be a powerful educational tool, and the MWMO is no stranger to producing videos about protecting water quality. But this year, our most interesting and impactful video project […]
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