Sustaining the Conversation

<p>Natalie Hoidal, a Local Food and Vegetable Production educator with the University of Minnesota Extension, talks us through what it means to be an extension educator and why she loves Minnesota's small vegetable...

<p>Kathy Ness is a Northfield, MN, based artist and crafter who turns discarded cloth and old clothes into beautiful new clothing, bags, and other useful items. She sells these through her buisness UpCycleMN and...

<p>Aubree Derksen and Bill Saville are Minnesota locals who are active in opposing the construction of hyperscale data centers in their towns. They walk us through their perspectives on how data centers can be harmful...

<p>Grace Clemens, a Food and Environmental Justice fellow from the Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE) at Carleton College, talks us through her work collaboring with the Friends of Hauberg Woods. Hauberg...

<p>Lauren Williams is a 2025-2026 Common Good fellow from St. Olaf college. During the past year she worked with the 'Be Local Buy Local' group of small buisness owners in Northfield to find ways to get St. Olaf...

<p>Our hosts Declan and Farren talk through the Cannon River Community Science project, which Carleton College's Office of Sustainability has been running for over two years. The episode starts out with describing what...

<p>Janet Petri and Howard White, from Northfield's chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby, volunteer their time to support bipartisan climate policy. Central to the CCL's work is getting people to talk about climate...

<p>David Wakeman, a Northfield Rotary Club volunteer, has been interested in urban systems since college. He is active on the Rotary Climate Action Team, working on projects like local energy efficiency, youth climate...

<p>Christy Marsden, from the Univeristy of Minnesota Climate Adaptation Partnership, introduces us to the 'Community Climate Leaders' program that she has been helping build over the past few years. Marsden has been...

<p>Sarah Fortner, the Director of Sustainability at Carleton College, shares with us her experiences with climate advocacy and sustainability in higher education. </p>

<p>Ava and Sylvia are two leaders in the ECOrganizers group of Environmental Coalition student members at St. Olaf college. They walk us through why they joined ECOrgainizers, their experiences with collaboration with...

<p>Join hosts Emilia Rodriguez, Declan Grubbs and Farren Groom as we talk though the highlights of the updated 2026 Minnesota Climate Action Framework. Learn what the framework is, how the climate emergency is impacting...

<p>In the fourth episode of this series we met up with Suwannee from Carleton's Center for Civic and Community Engagement's cohort of Peace, Conflict and Democracy fellows to talk about the importance of political...

<p>Heron Mahn, Community Engagement Manager at Clean River Partners, chats about their experiences working for Clean River Partners, projects CRP is working on, and the impact of this organization. They do more than...

<p>Join us as we talk with Carleton College's student farm workers Maeve and Daniel, and the farm manager Amanda, about the new composter their farm is building. We chatted with them about about their experiences while...