Environment

Several years ago, Lissie Rappaport Schifman was sitting at the High Holidays service at Temple Israel, pregnant and between jobs. She started thinking. Thinking about where she was going to now devote her energy. Thinking about what kind of world she was bringing her child into. Thinking about the current geopolitical climate, our dependence on foreign oil, and the global warming crisis-all of the ecological concerns that many people share. And she looked upward and found inspiration in the roof. To Schifman, the roof was a place to begin. MORE »

Republican politicians across the country, led by Sen. John McCain and President George Bush, began calling for offshore drilling as a solution to high gasoline prices, often despite their prior positions. No surprise then that Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., became one of the more vociferous proponents of offshore drilling as a co-sponsor of the “No More Excuses Act.” MORE »

The Twin Cities Daily Planet is launching the Going Green blog, and we’d like to hear your stories about more environmentally-friendly living. MORE »

Unfortunately the rainy weather did not cooperate with the organizers of the first Green Drinks of the summer on June 11. So, instead of meeting on the patio of Birchbark Café in Minneapolis, the group of approximately twenty energy conservation enthusiasts huddled together inside the café for their environmental happy hour. MORE »