What the Story of America’s First Climate Refugees Can Tell Us About Our Not-so-distant Future By Harrison Beck   A slow fading has begun on the Isle de Jean Charles off the coast of Louisiana. The Gulf of Mexico, long the lifeblood of the island's residents, is rising. After five decades of unprecedented erosion, the consequence of logging and oil projects in the area, the island has lost more than 95% of its former land. […]

In our current social and political environment, a lot of us experience cognitive dissonance between what we know is happening to the planet because of climate change, and what we’re doing about it. Not only that, but it can be a difficult subject to broach with the people we see everyday–even though a lot of us are feeling the same thing. We’re thinking about it, but sometimes we feel we can’t talk about it. Well, let’s […]

MN350 stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (MN NOC) and the brave people at the #4thPrecinctShutDown encampment. We join you in calling for justice for Jamar Clark and his family and a speedy and transparent investigation. We call for urgent action to address police violence against people of color and structural racism in Minnesota. MN350 organizes for climate justice: We recognize and seek to address the deep connections […]

We are “The Last Resort”, a Lego Robotics team from Seward Montessori School in south Minneapolis. The theme for this year’s robotics competition is natural disasters: “Nature’s Fury”. We are looking at the relationship between typhoons and global warming. We have studied typhoons in general and Typhoon Haiyan in particular. We learned that more CO2 in the air raises the earth’s temperature, which makes storms stronger. We would like to support the people of the […]

June 2012 was a moment in history that will yield insignificant in the coming years.  Yet, it caught our attention as 400ppm of carbon dioxide was recorded in the Arctic for the first time in human history. This was a reminder of the gravity of the climate crisis for folks at MN350 sparking 400 Reasons to Fight, a project collecting images, sounds and stories of why we are fighting for climate justice. What is your […]

Human Health and Climate Change Dramatic increases in Lyme Disease and the second case of the rare Naegleria fowleri amoeba are prime examples of how Minnesotans are feeling the health impacts of a changing climate.  On August 16 at 7pm, MN350 and MN IPL will host Dr. Wendy Ring, a family physician from California presenting in Minneapolis as part of a cross-country tour educating people about the health dangers of climate change.  Presentation is at […]

  The MN350 Flash Action street theater team and friends hit the streeets at the Living Green Expo to connect the dots between the climate crisis and the mosaic of organizations and businesses working for climate solutions in Minnesota.

St. Thomas University Student Organic Farm connects the dots between climate change and the industrial food system. They are building local alternatives, and growing justice while they go. In 2011 they grew over 1200 pounds of produce, much of which was distributed to local food shelves. Photo by Julia Nerbonne

MN kids get to work in the garden, connecting with mother earth and lowering their carbon footprint. Composting, caring for chickens, and getting ready to harvest delicious garlic and strawberries. Clara says: “Please do this all your life because it’s fun, it doesn’t pollute, and it helps the earth. And I love mud!”

  From the 16th to the 20th of March 2012 it was 80 degrees in Minneapolis for 5 days running. With the weather 40 degrees warmer than average, a swallowtail butterfly emerged in my back yard only to find that no flowers had yet opened to provide life-giving nectar. As friends and neighbors celebrated this early gift of warmth, turning their gardens and getting out their flip flops, I privately shed tears for the swallowtail, […]