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SERIES Ecolution:

Evolution in Ecosystems and Economies

Commentary: What to know about the sulfide mine proposed in Minnesota’s headwaters watershed

With Talon’s proposal, Minnesota now has sulfide-mining proposals in all three of its major watersheds: the Mississippi River, Lake Superior, and the Boundary Waters. A public comment period for one of them ends September 14.
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Taking Solace in the Ecofeminist Poetry of Mary Oliver

In the 1980s, ecofeminism emerged, combining feminist and environmentalist theory in the anti-capitalist assertion that the oppression of women and the oppression of the environment are strongly rooted together. Both resources have been subjected to masculine exploitation. For my capstone project at Brandeis University (where I graduated in May before returning to Minnesota), I analyzed Oliver's poetry with an ecofeminist approach.
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Insights About Co-Operatives

Policymakers, Indigenous leaders, and Black collective participants discussed the long-time benefits of a collaborative, co-operative system at the Minnesota Cooperative Summit in Duluth. "Community wealth is collective."
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The Long Fight Against Toxins in One Neighborhood

After her 16-year-old son Trinidad died in 2013 of dilated cardiomyopathy — a condition associated with exposure to air pollution — Holmes became an activist. Many people in her Indigenous community were dying before the age of 55, and she began to question what had once seemed normal.
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Commentary: What is the Save Our Bacon Act in the Farm Bill?

The cutesy-named "Save Our Bacon Act" was introduced in Congress in July to support large corporations to strip states of the power to set their own standards for the food sold within their borders, and to nullify laws voters have already passed to protect people and animals.
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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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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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Iranian-Americans Rally at the Minnesota State Capitol Governor Walz signs the PRO Act into law