Thursday
Jun162011
First Waterski Event of the Season on the Mississipi River in Minneapolis [Video]
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 8:25AMFrom maymaiko1 on YouTube on June 6, 2011
The River Hub - Minneapolis Riverfront News
Preserve.Revitalize.Connect.
Gold Medal Park to Be Preserved for 50 Years
Letter to the Editor - Ideas for the Minneapolis Riverfront
Entries from June 1, 2011 - June 30, 2011
Wednesday
Jun152011
Power of the Falls: Past, Present and Future - Central River Forum [Video]
A panel of experts discussed key issues, and a lively discussion followed, with questions from the audience.
Geology, Spirituality, Tourism, and Early Settlement History
Karen Campbell, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota
River Health
Charlotte Cohn, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (invited)
Developing Hydropower, Building a City
William de la Barre (David Berg), Minnesota Historical Society
Hydropower Today
Matthew Miller, Xcel Energy
Public Issues in Hydropower Licensing
Susan Overson, National Park Service
For more information, contact Cordelia Pierson at 612-465-8780, ext. 212, or cordelia.pierson@gmail.com
Tuesday
Jun142011
Minneapolis Riverfront Development Initiative Meetings [Video]
Minneapolis Riverfront Development Initiative meetings from May 25, 2011 at the Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board HQ.
The Public Meeting
Steering Committee Meeting - Part 1
Steering Committee Meeting - Part 2
Tuesday
Jun142011
Minneapolis Opens Its First Bike Boulevard, Connects to Riverfront
From KARE 11:
Just in time for summer, pedalers and pedestrians now have more miles of roads to roll and walk on.
The new RiverLake Greenway opened Saturday connecting the Mississippi River to Lake Harriet providing a safer route through South Minneapolis.
Monday
Jun132011
U of M Power Plant to Get Greener
From Brainerd Dispatch:
The University of Minnesota campus quite literally runs on steam —lots and lots of steam. It's used for heating in the winter, and powers equipment that provides air conditioning in the summer.
For decades that steam has been created at a university power plant fired by coal and natural gas. But after years of concern over pollution, university officials say they're going to drastically reduce the amount of coal burned at the facility near downtown Minneapolis, about 100 yards from the Mississippi River.
Thursday
Jun092011
Tonight Only - Power of the Falls: Past, Present and Future - Central River Forum
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Minneapolis Park Board HQ
2117 West River Road
The waterfall at the heart of our city - St. Anthony Falls - has powerfully shaped our city's past. Dakota people honor "Owahmenah" - falling water - as a sacred place. Before 1850, it attracted hundreds of artists, writers, and politicians, becoming one of the best known tourist destinations on the North American continent. Harnessing the falls for hydropower sparked growth of the city and transformed the Upper Midwest.
How will these falls shape our future?
A panel of experts will highlight key issues, and contribute to a lively discussion, with questions from the audience.
Geology, Spirituality, Tourism, and Early Settlement History
Karen Campbell, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota
River Health
Charlotte Cohn, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (invited)
Developing Hydropower, Building a City
William de la Barre (David Berg), Minnesota Historical Society
Hydropower Today
Matthew Miller, Xcel Energy
Public Issues in Hydropower Licensing
Susan Overson, National Park Service
For more information, contact Cordelia Pierson at 612-465-8780, ext. 212, or cordelia.pierson@gmail.com
Thursday
Jun092011
Businesses Have Questions About Riverfront Plans
From Finance & Commerce:
Since Above the Falls was adopted 12 years ago “a lot has happened,” Leighton told the sometimes fractious crowd. “But the more ambitious land-use plans [of converting a significant portion of the riverfront to housing] have not happened. Now the city is poised to move forward with redevelopment scenarios.”
Wednesday
Jun082011
Fight Against Asian Carp Making Slow Progress
From the Star Tribune:
The common carp, shown above, has been a problem in Minnesota beginning not soon after it was imported here from Britain in the late 1880s.
Asian carp — should they ever arrive in breeding populations — will be a bigger problem, still.
So far, the DNR believes only "pioneering'' individuals — most recently a bighead carp caught in the St. Croix River — are in waters as far north as the Twin Cities.
Tuesday
Jun072011
Mississippi Watershed Management Organization to Get New Home on the Riverfront
From The Journal:
The new riverfront headquarters for the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization is actually one big science experiment.
Staff will monitor a rooftop “salsa garden” of edible plants, comparing the water that pours off the green roof to water that pours off an empty roof nearby. They will plant and uproot different types of trees over time, so they can measure how much water the trees suck out of the ground. And they will check to see if pharmaceuticals and other new pollutants are starting to come down in rainwater.
“Our entire site is really all around that discovery piece,” said the organization’s executive director Doug Snyder.
