The Green Gifts Fair is a fun, family-friendly event designed to inspire Minnesotans to try a greener holiday season. There will be 80+ eco-gift vendors, community building activities, demos in multiple languages, a creative expressions lab, a silent auction, free music, a family passport with prizes and much more! A $1 donation will be accepted at the door.
Volunteer to help restore the Carleton Arboretum.
Activity and meeting place to be determined! Email nbraker@carleton.edu for details.
Given the political, economic, and environmental state of the world, grassroots action is desperately needed that tackles the issues of stopping further destruction of people and planet and builds a better way to do things aligned with justice and sustainability. As activists we need a dual strategy of Fight the Bad and Build the New. We must stop the expansion and operation of the fossil fuel economy while we also build democratic institutions around renewable energy and regenerative agriculture. This is the mission of Northfielders for Climate Justice.
Fight the bad
Enbridge, the largest oil pipeline company in North America is attempting to build a brand new tar sands oil pipeline through Northern MN and other midwestern states. As Minnesotans, we have a unique role in being to fight the construction of this pipeline through indigenous land just as we were able to do by coming together at Standing Rock against DAPL. As Northfielders for Climate Justice, we will do everything we can to stop this pipeline in the legal system as well as through protest camps.
Build the new
We are dedicated to building a new renewable energy system that is democratically controlled by us, the people, and not by private corporations. As Northfielders, we have an incredible opportunity to concretely make that vision a reality in Rice County by working with Cooperative Energy Futures. CEF is a consumer (us) owned and controlled solar garden cooperative that is building a community solar garden in Faribault MN which anyone in Rice County or an adjacent county can subscribe to. CEF is also using unique financing mechanisms so that low income people can have access to renewable energy with a solar subscription that pays for itself and starts energy bill savings. This is our concrete opportunity to help advance true energy democracy in our town.
Co-hosted by Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light and members of Young Peoples Action Coalition
Professor Price will talk about her current research and forthcoming book.
Winona LaDuke is a Native American environmentalist and rural development economist working on sustainable development and food systems. The author of six books, including Recovering the Sacred, LaDuke is widely recognized for her work on environmental and human rights issues, as well as her international advocacy for indigenous peoples. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, where she is the founder of the reservation-based non-profit White Earth Land Recovery Project. She is also the executive director of Honor the Earth, a Native environmental advocacy organization that plays an active role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. She is a former board member of Greenpeace USA, and currently serves on the advisory board of the Trust for Public Land’s Native Lands Program.
A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, LaDuke has won numerous honors and awards and is an inductee of the National Women’s Hall of Fame. According to LaDuke, “We are at this point, known in prophecies as the time of the 7th fire, where we have a choice. This a choice between a well-worn, scorched path and a new, green path. It is time to make the right choice and develop economics that support the new, green path.”
The title of her presentation is “Economics for the Seventh Generation — Moving Forward.”
Join renowned professor, public writer, artist, and environmental historian Jenny Price for an exciting talk about her new book.
Program Schedule
5:00-6:30 Tour the Farm – Food & Beverage (Potluck)
6:30- 8:00 A Conversation about Climate Change & Regenerative Farming
Thursday, October 12th at 5:00 pm
Main Street Farm- Northfield, MN
RSVP Brian@MN350.org
How Does Climate Change Affect Me?
How Can Regenerative Farming Stop Carbon Pollution?
What Stories can I share about the changes I’m seeing?
How can we Create Environmental Justice?
Have you wondered what you can do about climate change? This Fall, there has been more media coverage than ever on the subject…..Hurricanes, Wildfires, Exiting the Paris Accord. Since the election, hundreds of Minnesotans have been getting together … working for climate justice.
MN350 and Main Street Project are teaming up to do a special Climate Conversation, It will be and evening of talking, eating and exploring a farm that puts climate justice into action by revitalizing soil, sequestering carbon, producing delicious food and providing a livelihood for a great community.
What is a Climate Conversation? This MN350 presentation creates conversations; a different format with audience involvement all through program. We inform the audience with science and research. Your stories and experiences matter when talking about climate change. Through these conversations we’ll help you think through the many possibilities for engaging in this movement and supporting regenerative farming.
Citizens’ Climate Lobby is a non-partisan group working to address climate change. On the second Saturday of each month we hear a nationally renowned speaker on an issue related to climate change. Then we discuss how to move our local, state and national leaders toward taking action on this vital issue. Come learn how you can be a part of the solution!
Are you concerned about human-caused fertilizer and sediment pollution in our rivers, lakes, and drinking water supplies?
Despite decades of hard work from local and state government staff and many conservation-minded landowners, our rivers, lakes, and drinking water supplies are still getting dirtier and dirtier. Nitrate fertilizer and salt pollution continues to rise in the Cannon River in Southeastern Minnesota.
But despite these challenges, there is a lot we can do for cleaner water in the Cannon River Watershed. The first thing you can do it to attend a local “25 by 25” Clean Water Town Hall Meeting on Monday, Oct. 2, 6:00-8: pm at the Northfield Public Library (210 Washington St. Northfield, MN).
At the meeting, you can share your clean water concerns and talk with other community members about how we can work together to envision, evaluate, and enact projects and policies to clean up our rivers, lakes, and drinking water. All ideas from this local meeting will be uploaded to Governor Mark Dayton’s “25 by 25” website as a way to gather ideas that will help the State of Minnesota achieve 25% Cleaner Water by the year 2025. (Currently we are on track to only improve water quality by 6% by 2034, if we’re lucky).
On the day of the most important public hearing in St. Paul to decide the fate of the Line 3 pipeline, we the people will stand together to Hold the Line for Our Communities and March to #StopLine3. Our climate, our clean fresh water, our wild rice, and our communities are at risk from this proposed new tar sands pipeline expansion across northern Minnesota.
4pm: Jingle Dress Dancers & Rally at the Capitol
5pm: March to Stop Line 3 from the Capitol to the Public Hearing (1.3 miles)
6-9pm: Public Hearing on Line 3 at Intercontinental Hotel
RSVP Here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/hold-the-line-for-our-communities-march-public-hearings-to-stop-the-line-3-pipeline
Rise up and be in the streets! Demand that Governor Dayton and the Public Utilities Commission hold the line to protect our communities, and say NO to Line 3 pipeline. The fossil fuel industry’s profits are not more important than our state’s abundant natural resources. Water is life!
We will hold a rally at the Capitol and then march to the public hearing at the Intercontinental Hotel in downtown St. Paul to make our voices heard. This hearing is the FINAL chance in St. Paul to show up and make a public comment on Line 3, and our decision makers need to know we will not let this black-snake pipeline poison Minnesota!
Can’t attend the hearing held from 6-9pm? Come to the earlier public hearing, same location (the Intercontinental Hotel), from 1-4pm and join us for the march after that session!