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  • When a Data Center Comes to Town: What Are Minnesota Communities Getting (or Losing) from Data Centers?

    2025 Fall Webinar Series
    Zoom

    Giant tech companies like Meta, Google, and Amazon are building massive data centers across the country in anticipation of generative AI uses. But do these data centers benefit the communities they’re built in? What sort of impact do they have on the people who live around them, the water and land, the environment and our…

  • Why Are Our Electric Utilities Structured Like This?

    Zoom

    Have you ever wondered how the electric utility industry works? Or why its financing, business practices, technologies, resources, and regulatory structures look the way they do in various places around the country? The history of utilities in the United States is filled with controversy and compromise. Understanding that history can reveal what’s possible for political…

  • November Policy Team Meeting

    Zoom

    Engaging in policy brings climate action to scale – and everyone has a voice to share. This month we’ll talk about what we’re learning from COP 30 and how we…

  • December Policy Team Meeting

    Zoom

    MNIPL has several legislative goals we’re aiming to support this session. Learn about them and see what might resonate for your community group or congregation. We’ll be planning ways to…

  • Community Climate Resilience Hubs – December Gathering

    2025 Community Climate Resilience Network
    Zoom

    Our Minnesota communities are already feeling the impacts of climate change, from widespread drought to bigger and more dangerous storms. Our neighbors are going to need support in building the relationships, infrastructure, and support to prevent and adapt to the realities of climate disruption. Minnesota’s communities of faith,  and community organizations are uniquely poised to…

  • MNIPL Winter Book Club: Mini-Forest Revolution

    2026 MNIPL Winter Book Club
    Zoom

    This winter, MNIPL is launching a Winter Book Club to read inspiring works speaking to this moment in our collective climate crisis. If you've been wondering how to access hope for your continued work on climate action, these books are for you! Please join us! Every month January - March, we’ll read a recent book…

  • Together in this Moment: Community as a Source of Resilience (CCRN February 2026)

    Zoom

    Please join us for a gathering of the Community Climate Resilience Network (CCRN) to talk about how we can build our resilience through supporting each other in times of crisis. In the face of the violence and violation of rights in our communities, we know that many of our community climate resilience hubs have been…

  • Rise & Repair’s Opening Day in a Good Way Gathering

    Minnesota State Capitol 75 Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Saint Paul, MN

    Join Rise & Repair for our upcoming rally at the Capitol! We'll have a gather on the steps of the capitol followed by a rally in the rotunda. Then we'll…