My Minnesota

Yes, we mixed our metaphors. Nevertheless, today’s posting is short but, perhaps, not so sweet. A quick search of the internet reveals that ...

Today is World Water Day . It’s also National Ag Day . Minnesota is noted for both its water and its agriculture. Unfortunately, the combina...

The oversized pool of water in the back yard has shrunk remarkably the past few days. We suspect most of the diminution is due to surface fr...

The day before yesterday, I mentioned our icy driveway. Today, those concerns were put to shame. About a mile or so South of our drive, th...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency is giving serious review to allegations that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency doe...

[UPDATE: For a similar, but broader perspective, see Honor the Earth's September 3, 2015 Dear Governor Dayton letter .] Minnesota, l...

We're up to question five in our bioregional quiz. Before we get to it, please skim through the quotation below from the essay Interpr...

Today we're just going to do a quick report on our personal efforts to be less polluting. Almost three years ago we replaced our quart...

I hope that more and more of us are coming to realize that we have some things seriously backwards in this country. If enough of us realiz...

The World Series has been won (and lost). It's time for the boys of Summer to take their toys and put them away until next Spring. Thi...

Have you ever complained about being in a hole and been told that the first thing to do is to stop digging? I wonder if Minnesota is ready...

Have you ever read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson? She starts it by writing about a town full of strange happenings. "There was a ...

An earlier posting on My Minnesota noted that the Metro Council's draft Northeast Water Supply Plan didn't yet address water con...