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Ecolution

Deep Dive: How the Attorney General’s Office Impacts Affordability, Housing, and Healthcare

At a recent campaign rally for Attorney General Keith Ellison, Sen. Tina Smith, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Ellison talked about several key issues impacting voters this season. Following are excerpts of the discussion, including Ellison's talking points about the economics of daily living, healthcare, housing, and other details related to how affordability is tied up in government policy and enforcement.
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A Conversation About Priorities with U.S. Senate Candidate Peggy Flanagan

Two of our Future Forward editorial board members — a board of women under the age of 25 — had a chance to talk with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who is running for U.S. Senate. Here is some of the conversation.
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EXPLAINER: Mining in Minnesota

Minnesota has mined iron for well over a century, and it is still the largest producer of iron ore and taconite in the United States. Now the state is at the center of a bigger question: should it open a second kind of mining, for copper, nickel and other metals, in some of its most water-rich landscapes? This Explainer is part of a series designed to help people understand how the government — and the people we elect to it — serve the common good with the decisions they make about policy and funding priorities that impact the interconnected whole.
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Minnesota Coalition Calls on Corporations to Take a Stand Against Federal Surveillance

A coalition of Minnesota labor leaders, faith leaders, educators, and community supporters gathered outside Target’s downtown Minneapolis headquarters to call on Minnesota-based corporations to publicly oppose federal surveillance, intimidation, and retaliation against people and organizations that resisted immigration enforcement efforts in Minnesota this winter.
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UPDATED: Voices and Images From the Solidarity Celebration

  At a Solidarity picnic on August 8, many groups came…
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Law Professor Talks About Why People Power Must Take Back Control of the Economy

In a compelling keynote talk at the Minnesota Co-op Summit in Duluth, Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout noted that allowing monopolies to control the economy "is an outrageous and crazy way to build a society." She said the anti-monopoly movement needs to join with the co-op movement — one of Minnesota’s nation-leading strengths. “If we take this moment, we can build something beautiful and new and resilient — a world of necessary people who aren't scared, who are free, planting cooperatives thick as trees all across America.”
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COMMENTARY: 8 Claims You’re Hearing About Hyperscale Data Center Proposals, and What We Know Right Now

As a science and law organization, it's our job to question the…
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SERIES: Ecolution

Our ongoing conversations related to ecolution: local economies, ecosystems, and ecofeminism
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Abogados Café: Where Lattes Meet Law

“I was surprised how a little place can do so much,” Ponce says with tears in her eyes. “When you hurt together, you heal together.”
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East Phillips Neighbors, Karen Clark, and Ongoing Roof Depot Site Development

The East Phillips Neighborhood Institute was very happy Karen Clark was able to witness and celebrate a historic win for the community when Minnesota legislators granted funding to purchase half the Roof Depot in May 2026.
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Bulletin Board: AI and Data Center news from Minnesota, nationally, and globally

Minnesota Round-up Carleton County moratorium discussion…
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Minnesota’s Workforce Rights Over Time

A partial timeline of labor rights involving immigrants, women, strikes, and legislation
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Grief for the Country We Are — and Hope in Our Potential

"The propaganda many people seem to have bought into is that it is the lower classes — not the upper classes — who are leaving us hungry. The frenzied microscope points to misuse of tax dollars at the lowest of levels. Too many of our neighbors seem to be ignoring the fraud perpetrated at the highest levels. How did we get here?"
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Planting Seeds in Times of Darkness

Winona LaDuke shares four concepts for a sustainable future. "On a worldwide scale, Indigenous people represent about 5 percent of the world’s population but steward 75 percent of the world’s biodiversity. We are successful in protecting these lands because we are committed to the land, to life, and to moderating our own behavior so that life can continue. That’s how we can hang out in an ecosystem for a thousand years and it’s still healthy. Indigenous knowledge and values help preserve life."
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Neighborhood House Celebrates Its 100-Plus-Year Commitment to Saint Paul Immigrants

Founded in 1897 to support Russian Jewish refugees, Neighborhood House now offers adult and early childhood education, food and housing support, and a Latino leadership program. Running a rapid response headquarters out of its new maker-space during Operation Metro Surge, the organization made over 4,500 food deliveries, supporting 734 families. 
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