Transition Northeast Minneapolis
Garden reports, including pear tree pruning / training and volunteer purslane (commercially available at Holy Land Market)
Implementation of recently-installed PV system: half the typical electric bill (3.2 kWH system) with $40/mo credit from Xcel Energy; 25 year lifespan on panels, with linear decline in energy return
Minnesota energy transition project led by former state legislator Ellen Anderson — see stories online here and here, and video here.
An unlikely-sounding energy storage concept involving railroad cars filled with rocks and a relatively short track on a slope.
The Commons Transition “database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed toward achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization.”
The consolidation proposal involving the neighborhood’s Eastside Food Co-op.
The recent podcast featuring Dmitry Orlov and Chris Martenson: “The US is Sleepwalking Towards a Nuclear Confrontation,” following on a warning on the drift toward war issued by a group of concerned Russians, and Martenson’s own analysis.