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Sustainable Fishing Tips
When lead fishing sinkers are lost through broken line or other means, birds can inadvertently eat them. Water birds like loons and swans often swallow lead when they scoop up pebbles from the bottom of a lake or river to help grind their food. Eating just one lead sinker can poison a loon. Eagles
ECO SPORTS Put a Little Eco in Your Stride!
From Wasteful Tourist to Ecotraveler
Eco Sports
The more time we spend in urban environments, the more important it is to get away from life as we know it and venture into the great outdoors. Outdoor sports and recreation do much more than simply promote mind and body wellness. Being out and active in nature facilitates our connection with the world around us, even if our time investment extends to just a few moments every day.
Family-Friendly Eco Activities
MayDay Parade and Festival
(1st Sunday in May)
612-721-2535
www.hobt.org
Make puppets, participate in the parade or just come to watch the puppets float to life.
Halloween Harvest Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza
(Last week in October)
Bare Bones Productions
www.bedlamtheatre.org
A unique, handmade, nighttime spectacle with giant puppets, stilters and fire dancers.
Travel That Mirrors Your Values
World travel can be a wonderful way to promote peace, gain understanding, and create friendship between people of different cultures. At the same time travel and tourism, by its very nature of increasing the flow of people and use of resources in an area, can contribute to economic inequalities or cultural and environmental degradation. “Responsible tourism” is a movement that seeks to combat the potential negative impact of travel and protect and preserve local people, including their land and economy.
Bicycle Touring: Why I Travel By Bike
My first tour was almost 10 years ago. It was the first time I had been west of the center states. The transition from riding steep green mountains in Virginia to the rolling hills of Missouri, and then the open flatness of Kansas was slow (over a month of riding!) and quite amazing.
Responsible Recreation Through ‘Silent Sports’
Last night the snow fell lightly whispering through the air like a million tiny silver spiders dangling from their threads – a perfect night for cross country skiing! I accepted the night’s invitation and headed to the trail. I let my skis lead the way as the darkness rendered my sight useless. The crisp 9 degree air was freezing the moisture on my eye lashes. What a small price to pay for the revitalizing experience of gliding through the woods at night over freshly fallen snow.
Top 10 Green Cities
We wanted to present the Top 10 Green Cities in the U.S., but that would have become a whole project in itself. We'll put that in our future projects file. In the meantime, here's what Cy Yaokam of Urban Quality Communications in Michigan found for us. You might want to consider traveling to these cities to learn and bring back new green, sustainable and healthy ways to improve the Twin Cities.
