Tag Archive for climate change

Minneapolis Climate Action Plan: Why It’s Important

The Minneapolis Climate Action Plan is designed to cut city-wide carbon emissions by 15% this year and 30% by 2025. This series of graphs explains why.At the 2015 World Expo in Milan, garbage is deposited from street receptacles, compacted and separated underground, and whooshed at roughly 50 miles an hour directly to a waste storage…

My Conversion: A Story of Al Gore, Mayor Hodges and the Pope

How The Inconvenient Truth becomes personal.written in 2015 as Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges was heading to the Vatican for a conversation with city leaders around the world about climate change As a young girl growing up in Prior Lake, Minnesota, I was biking distance to the Franciscan Retreat House. At the time, it was almost…

TEEN: Why I’m Tired of the Climate Change Discussion

Why a Minneapolis teenager is both tired, and hopeful, talking about climate change and Pope Francis.By Sophia Morrissette, 16, Minneapolis, as Pope Francis prepares his talk to U.S. Congress in 2015 As a teenager, I’m tired of talking about climate change. At school, I’ve seen An Inconvenient Truth about 20 times and done a project…