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    Nov 12th 2024 meeting on SOLAR

    Hi Folks,

    The next meeting of the Ely Climate Group will be on Tuesday November 12th at 4pm at the Ely Field Naturalists Resource Center above the NAPA store. As usual this meeting will be in person and by zoom.

    Our topic for the next TWO meetings is solar energy for the home. November’s meeting […]

    June 11th 2024 Organizational meeting, Sustainable Ely

    4pm June 11 2024 Climate Meeting at Ely Field Naturalists Resource Center

    This is a summary of the ideas presented. We had a lot of interactive discussion making it hard to attribute ideas to individuals except for a couple of instances.

    Intro from Barb: It’s nice to see everybody here. The May meetings went […]

    May 19th 2024 Troy Goodnough Morris Model Q&A + video links

    You can find videos of Troy’s talk on “Sustainability in Small Cities” on the Ely Climate Group YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iYAarZ6lKM&t=3s

    You can see the CURE video, which has shots of Troy in addition to his slides, here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md-OBlvnH8M&t=3375s

     

    This is a lightly edited transcript of the Q&A following Troy’s talk. There are some […]

    March 12th 2024 Recycling everything, MN’s Zero Waste Coalition

    Hi Folks

    Our next climate meeting will be March 12th at 4pm in the Ely Field Naturalists Resource Center above the NAPA store. The meeting will be both in person and zoomed.

    This month we will be hosting members of the Minnesota Zero Waste Coalition–including Eureka Recycling (a mission-based […]

    Feb 13th 2024 Clean Energy Resource Teams

    At our meeting in January, Hudson made a compelling case for heat pumps. During the Ely Winter Festival we had the opportunity to see and drive a variety of electric vehicles on display at Ely’s DQ. These technologies are becoming more known and accepted, and certainly help us reduce our carbon footprint. But […]

    Jan 9th 2024 Heat Pumps

    Jan 9th 2024 Climate Meeting Heat Pumps This is a pdf summary

    You can find the full recording of the meeting on you tube.

    Either search on you tube for “Ely Climate Group” or go here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFYEXa0qx5p9Nb25QBXhgbg

    December 2023, planning session

    Notes on Dec 5th 2023 Meeting notes, BJ

    We met at Mary Louise’s home to discuss how to proceed in 2024. Many thanks Mary Louise for the good atmosphere and to all who contributed. Before the meeting, I asked Ted Spalding, who started the group several years ago and now lives near the […]

    Nov 7th 2023, Aaron Kania District Ranger

    November 7th 2023 “Managing Forests” Aaron Kania, Kawishiwi District Forest Ranger

    Aaron talked about how our forests have changed from times before Europeans arrived to the present and what we may expect in the future as our climate changes. Indigenous people used fire to clear the understory hence avoiding many severe crown fires. Our current […]

    Letter to editor TimberJay Oct 27th 2023

    The Iron Range can benefit from the fight against Climate Change

    Many of us are concerned about climate change. Northeast Minnesota is home to the MN Northland Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby and to the Ely Climate Change Group. A recent combined meeting of these groups viewed and discussed the 24 minute video on opportunities […]

    Oct 10th Green Steel and Northland Opportunities, CCL and Jeff Hanson

    You can find the CCL video (24 mins) here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4JyAWRuvsI You can find the zoom recording of our Oct 10th meeting (including both video and discussion) here:https://us06web.zoom.us/rec/share/nYNCpZxeEBYbKdzT__RDbZO_ovMlRNTc4asS8IpIm28lJ1vJh2mX2MsjkmdAPrOm.RlIXLwDuXSMEBdrDPasscode: 14Y#t=5CLet your lawmakers and newspapers know you support these opportunitiesRep. Pete Stauber stauber.house.gov/contactSen Tina Smith smith.senate.gov/contactSen Amy Klobuchar klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-amy

    Sen Grant Hauschild sen.grant.hauschild@senate.mn Rep Roger Skraba rep.roger.skraba@house.mn.gov IRRRB […]