Recreation
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.
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.
Tips for Reducing Waste While Traveling
--Parts excerpted from www.reduce.org
"The less we take with us into the mountains, deserts, forests or waters, the more their spirit informs and enlivens us. We should be as reliant on our wits as much as possible and on "things" as little as possible. This means we should wear and carry as little as we can get away with while being in, and moving through, the natural world." -- Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia
Work It Out
Includes Listing of Used Sports Equipment Stores
Finding a Bed That's "Just Right"
Forests & Parks in the Metro
Many city dwellers dream of building a rustic cabin in the north woods. We want to escape the city and get back to nature. It is perhaps a response to the seemingly unsettled wilderness so tantalizingly close to us near the Canadian border. City dwellers listen with true longing to their neighbors, the cabin owners, making plans to head up north for the holiday.
