Sustainable Mondays will wrap up its April programming line-up tonight at the folk school with a wonderful evening centered around Lake Bemidji! Come on down to Rail River (303 W Railroad St. SW) tonight, April 30th, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm and find out more about what’s been happening with our precious and treasured Lake [...]

Tonight, in honor of the many BSU Earth Week events, Sustainable Mondays is heading on campus! Later today, from 5:30-7:30pm, we will be hosting an exciting and informative Local Foods Panel at Bemidji State University building Hagg-Sauer in Room 112. Panelists respond to a question from last year’s Earth Week event: Our Energy Future at [...]

Two and a half years ago now, Bemidjian Sam Kvale’s one hundred chickens were given 24 hours to be removed from Bemidji city limits.  This public event helped launch an ongoing dialogue regarding how town-dwelling community members interested in growing their own food could responsibly be permitted to raise laying hens and meat-birds. What’s happened since [...]

Minnesota is facing a crossroads on energy. We can continue to invest in clean energy and efficiency or we can choose to continue burning coal and polluting our air and water while sending billions of dollars out of state. Smart policies have made Minnesota a clean energy leader, but in northern Minnesota we still get an overwhelming majority of [...]

Hello Sustainability Friends, Big things are happening in Bemidji and we’d love for you to be a part of them! First off, J. Drake Hamilton is coming to Bemidji next Monday evening, April 9th, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm at the Rail River Folk School (303 Railroad St. SW). Hamilton is Fresh Energy’s Science Policy Director and will be speaking on Minnesota’s [...]