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My Minnesota: How you live -- let's build our local economy using "hot air"
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Is a wonderous "hot dish" of nature, places and people. Friday, August 7, 2015. How you live - let's build our local economy using "hot air". Let's see if we can connect a few dots and understand what a question about vehicle tire pressure is doing in a bioregionalism quiz. To be candid, I had to stop and think about it for a minute myself. Lots of tires near the Chisago City Farmers Market. Photo by J. Harrington. That's the "hot air" we're talking about. What is the proper tire pressure for your car ti...
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My Minnesota: How you live -- state parks near home
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Is a wonderous "hot dish" of nature, places and people. Monday, August 3, 2015. How you live - state parks near home. Even with taking weekends off, we're half-way through the bioregional quiz "How you live." Today we're starting the second half with question number eleven is:. What is the closest state park to your home? Winter wonders: frozen waterfalls. Photo by J. Harrington. View from the Visitor's Center. Photo by J. Harrington. Photo by J. Harrington. So water can comb. It into grids. This. And be...
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My Minnesota: Paying more attention more
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Is a wonderous "hot dish" of nature, places and people. Sunday, August 9, 2015. Paying more attention more. The way the windows looked early this morning, humidity must have been around 6,000% to 7,000%. It seems to have dropped to only about 150% since then. My grandmother would have said the "air was so thick you could cut it with a knife." Mosquitoes and deer flies love it. Rain clouds have rolled in from the west. Rain's started again. Storm clouds on the western horizon. Photo by J. Harrington.
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My Minnesota: Can dogs see poltergeists?
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Is a wonderous "hot dish" of nature, places and people. Saturday, August 1, 2015. Can dogs see poltergeists? Do you remember the poem / song Antigonish. It goes like this:. Yesterday, upon the stair,. I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today,. I wish, I wish he'd go away. When I came home last night at three,. The man was waiting there for me. But when I looked around the hall,. I couldn't see him there at all! Go away, go away, don't you come back any more! A little man who wasn't there,.
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My Minnesota: Captives on the carousel of time
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Is a wonderous "hot dish" of nature, places and people. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Captives on the carousel of time. Last Spring, when the weather was cooler, turkey hens were hatching eggs and whitetail does were dropping fawns. Hummingbirds and monarch butterflies were headed North from their wintering quarters. That was then. Turkey hen with three visible poults. Photo by J. Harrington. Fawn of the year, 2015. Photo by J. Harrington. Photo by J. Harrington. Yesterday a child came out to wonder. And the s...
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My Minnesota: How you live -- electricity
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Is a wonderous "hot dish" of nature, places and people. Tuesday, August 4, 2015. How you live - electricity. Today's bioregional quiz question presents, in a strange way, a challenge similar to trying to summarize our governor's environmental policy. Numerous factoids are available but don't seem to lend themselves to the generation of a coherent answer. Here's the "question:". Trace the electrical energy in your home from source to outlet. Areas should give you a pretty good idea of why. Describes Xcel'...
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My Minnesota: How you live -- energy tax credits
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Is a wonderous "hot dish" of nature, places and people. Thursday, August 6, 2015. How you live - energy tax credits. What type of tax credits are offered by your state and local governments for installation of energy efficient devices (such as solar hot water heaters)? Free-standing photovoltaic panels, northern Minnesota. Photo by J. Harrington. 64 of which match my zip code (many are utility-based programs). Roof-mounted photovoltaic panels, Marine-on-St. Croix. Photo by J. Harrington. Thanks for visit...
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My Minnesota: How you live -- water footprint
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Is a wonderous "hot dish" of nature, places and people. Monday, August 10, 2015. How you live - water footprint. The dots we want you to connect today are these:. The way we (you) use water makes a difference. Minnesota's water management problems aren't just isolated instances. The issues are systemic, from the cost of a major new water supply system in the southwest to the water quality problems caused by mining in the northeast. More of the same never solved a problem. Agriculture has drained or poiso...
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My Minnesota: And the seasons, they go ...
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Is a wonderous "hot dish" of nature, places and people. Saturday, August 8, 2015. And the seasons, they go . I noticed yesterday, for the first time this season, that our sand plain tumble grass ( Eragrostis spectabilis. Is turning autumnal pinkish purple. Purple love grass ( Eragrostis spectabilis. Photo by J. Harrington. Then this morning, on the guardian. Scroll down], I came across this:. How Smokes the Smolder. At neck, at. Fall runs colder,. Thanks for visiting. Come again when you can. The Calling...
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