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  • Why Are Our Electric Utilities Structured Like This?

    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…

  • 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…

  • Policy Team Meeting

    Zoom

    Now is a great time to join the MNIPL Policy Team. We’re working together to develop and advance the policies we need to achieve our better climate future. CLICK HERE…

  • Quarterly Community Offering – Autumn 2025

    Quarterly Community Offerings 2025
    Zoom

    Through the year and beyond, we’ll be hosting Quarterly Movement Offerings, which will be an opportunity to share what we’re working on and hear from you what you’re paying most attention to. Each session will have information about the state of climate justice work here and abroad, an opportunity to reconnect us to the importance…

  • Community Climate Resilience Hubs – September 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…

  • Quarterly Community Offering – Summer 2025

    Quarterly Community Offerings 2025
    Zoom

    Through the year and beyond, we’ll be hosting Quarterly Movement Offerings, which will be an opportunity to share what we’re working on and hear from you what you’re paying most attention to. Each session will have information about the state of climate justice work here and abroad, an opportunity to reconnect us to the importance…

  • Community Climate Resilience Hubs – June 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…