Today’s topics: Agriculture, Development, Energy, Food, Funding, Great Lakes, Non-Native Species, Transportation and Water.
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Today’s topics: Agriculture, Development, Energy, Great Lakes, Sustainability, Transportation and Water.
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From Houtlust:

Bronze at the Cannes Lions in the category Outdoor.

While the Chinese economy is booming, the skies above its cities are darkening. One of the biggest causes is the phenomenal growth in the number of cars and exhaust emissions. To kick off their ‘20 tips for sustainable development campaign and drive people to their 20to20.org mini-site, WWF expressed one tip in dramatic fashion. Along with an increase in new volunteers, WWF received coverage of the event in a number of Chinese newspapers as well as on CCTV 9, Beijing TV, Phoenix TV; even international news stations as far away as Deutsche Welle Broadcasting in Germany and Al Jazeera in the Middle East.

Copy on the ‘balloon’: Drive one day less and look how much carbon monoxide you’ll keep out of the air we breathe.
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather Beijing
Executive Creative Director: Nils Andersson
Creative Director: Doug Schiff
Copywriter: Doug Schiff/Fei Zhao
Art Director: Teonghoe Teng/Kama Yu
Photographer: Kenny Chai

Today’s topics: Agriculture, Energy, Forests, Great Lakes, Mining, State Fair and Water.
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Hats off to the mayor of Grand Rapids, Michigan for submitting this question to the Republican You Tube debate: 

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The new Bike/Walk Twin Cities website was launched last week, just in time for the State Fair. Check it out at http://www.bikewalktwincities.org/. The website is intended to be a resource for walking and bicycling in the Twin Cities and eventually draw upon the combined knowledge and experience of the Twin Cities walking and cycling communities.

Many thanks to Brady Clark of Third Eyebrow (and a frequent TLC volunteer) for designing the website, and many additional thanks to TLC staff for the initial content. We’ll be expanding the website in the upcoming months, so please send your brilliant ideas on how to make the site more interactive and user-friendly to webmaster@bikewalktwincities.org!

As many of you know, Bike/Walk Twin Cities is part of a national Non-Motorized Transportation Pilot Project administered by Transit for Livable Communities in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration and the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). The program is part of a four-year, $21.5 million initiative in four states that was backed by Congressman Oberstar in the 2005 federal transportation bill, SAFETEA-LU.

Also, check out the Bike/Walk Twin Cities booth in the Eco-Experience building of the State Fair. It looks pretty cool!

Today’s topics: Development, Energy, Fish, Food, Transportation, Waste, Water and Wetlands.
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Today’s topics: 3M Chemicals, Development, Energy, Forests, Great Lakes, Recycling, Transportation, Water and Wildlife.
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Clean Up the River Environment has a new clip up on mercury and the proposed Big Stone II coal plant just across the border.

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You can learn more at http://www.beyondbigstone2.com/