Aquifers and Drinking Water for Minnesotans
From the U of M Extension website Although man-made chemicals such as pesticides may get more attention, the most common drinking water contaminants in Minnesota that pose a threat to human health are coliform bacteria and nitrate. Public health professionals consider disease-causing bacteria and viruses a greater potential danger to public health than chemical […]
Toxic Taters
Image: Pineland Sands Aquifer Location: Callaway, MN Toxic Taters has been working since early 2015 to protect Hubbard, Becker, Wadena, and Cass counties in MN from an RDO expansion that has been threatening thousands of acres of the pines with conversion into potato fields. “On November 17, 2015, community members represented by Toxic Taters and […]
Blue-green algae
The warming temperatures and more intense rains Minnesota has seen under climate change are altering lakes in ways that give blue-green algae a boost. The longer growing season that’s a byproduct of global warming offers blue-green algae warmer temperatures and more opportunities to thrive. In Minnesota’s lakes, blue-green algae thrive best under warm, dry, calm […]
Water Quality Sing-a-long June 11 2016 Minneapolis Northern Spark
We are excitedly working on a new project: Water Quality Sing-a-long for the fabulous dusk to dawn Northern Spark festival in Minneapolis on June 10-11, 2016. Water Quality Sing-Along invites people to sing water quality data from Twin Cities watersheds. Located along the Mississippi, the piece focuses on water bodies within the Twin Cities that […]
Wheeled Wagon of Wonder
We imagined a space for parents and kids for all gallery/museum openings… Its part of this great zine published by Christa Donner,Cultural ReProducers . Check it! Cultural ReProducers: Propositions, Manifestos & Experiments, 2014 RISOGRAPH AND XEROX ON PAPER, UNMARKED EDITION OF 400 ————————————————————————— 8.5″ x 5.5″ closed, 44 pages in 3 colors with an 11 x […]
Emergent Ecologies
In our search to shift our thinking towards a nonhuman centered perspective, we’ve been reading this new book by Eben Kirksey: “In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios. Eben Kirksey suggests we reject such apocalyptic thinking and instead find […]
bike carts
possible: http://www.i10direct.com/bicycle-cargo-trailer-red-and-black/ 180 lb, support around outside of wheels, $100, 31 x 24 x 14 h this is actually an Aosom cart
Caravan Marsh Radio Island / Marsh Island Caravan / Caravan Marsh Island
What is this thing we’re developing? Title explorations: Is it an: Occupation? Process-based research? Parade? Convergence? Convening? Or a Caravan? car•a•van (ˈkær əˌvæn) n., v. -vaned -vanned, -van•ing -van•ning. n. 1. a group of travelers journeying together for safety, as through deserts, hostile territory, etc. 2. any group traveling in or as if in a caravan, as pack animals or vehicles. 3. a […]
bike cart caravan
bike cart notes Small flotant Crochet sheets/balls Crochet needles/yarn/scissors Crochet book/instructions Stamps, paper, rope, clothespins, place to hang broadsides Solar powered tea pot, cups, tea Cookies Solar powered lamps Tarp Pillows Table and 2 chairs Radio transmitter battery powered? Radio Map Book about project Info banners, rope Pole marking sea level rise Binoculars style […]
