It was extremely uplifting to spend the second week of September with leaders at the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. I was honored to present on our successful MN is Still In event at the We Are Still In forum highlighting private sector leadership and new commitments, following a short documentary on Minnesota’s […]
“…at least my students are optimistic.” That’s what I tell myself as I look at how far off their assumptions are about where our energy comes from. We have been learning about energy sources, and I asked them to guess the percentages of how much energy the United States gets from different energy sources. To […]
By Danette Knickmeier For two days I traveled to get to the start of the Climate Ride. The first day was from Minneapolis to San Francisco on a slightly delayed flight, and a long airport shuttle ride in rush hour traffic to my hotel. The second was San Fran to Fortuna on a 7-hour shuttle […]
By Danette Knickmeier A few years ago, I saw a tiny article in a weekly news magazine about an event called the Climate Ride. It was described as a bike ride in Northern California that raises funds and awareness for the environment. As an avid cyclist, a self-proclaimed treehugger and Midwesterner who, for many years, […]