COMMUNITY SUCCESS STORIES

Climate Actions & Accomplishments

Communities of faith and spiritual practice all across Minnesota are making a difference with actions big or small, one-time or ongoing. Inspire others by submitting your community's success story!

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Indigenous Rights & Climate Justice: A Jewish Opportunity to Rise & Repair

Last week, we partnered with Mount Zion, Temple Israel of Minneapolis, Jewish Community Action, and Rise & Repair to talk about how Jewish communities can support Indigenous rights and climate…

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Weaving plastic into gold

Story and art by MNIPL Intern Maddie Lenius Last winter, Trudy Dunham, a Ramsey County Recycling Ambassador, heard about a request to make sleeping mats out of recycled plastic bags…

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Unity Church Unitarian Engages in Truthful Healing

Story and art by MNIPL Intern Maddie Lenius Unity Church Unitarian in St. Paul has a long history of social justice work. The congregation has many community outreach ministry teams…

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Minnesota Congregations Go Solar

Story and art by MNIPL Intern Maddie Lenius In 2019, Tim Abrahamson and Stewart Herman began advocating for their Minneapolis church, University Lutheran Church of Hope, to consider installing solar…

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Clark-Grace UCC Organized Earth Day Expo Thanks to Grant

Submitted by Clark-Grace UCC in South Saint Paul. In 2022, Clark-Grace UCC received a CERTS (Clean Energy Resource Teams) seed grant to organize an Earth Day Environmental Expo. During the family-friendly event,…

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Helping nature reclaim its place in St. Paul

Submitted by Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul. Our story starts with an observation of a bee. Not just any bee, but a bumblebee, a rusty-patched bumblebee. When Kathy found this bee along…

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Canopy Connectors plant trees and build neighborhood connections

Submitted by Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul. In March 2021, Rennie Gaither, an Americorps Community Forestry Corps volunteer with Frogtown Green, gave a presentation to members of Unity Church-Unitarian about…

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What does racism have to do with environmental work?

Submitted by Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul. What does racism have to do with environmental work? That’s what those of us on the Act for the Earth (AFE) Ensure Justice…

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Launching an Ecofair

Submitted by St. John’s Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. We held an Ecofair around Earth Day, which brought together several different desires, needs, and talents: we wanted to find a way…

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Advocating for Clean Cars

Submitted by St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis. In early 2020, eight members of St. Mark’s Climate Task Force attended a Clean Cars hearing in North Minneapolis. They decided to…