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City Climate Corner

Abby Finis, Larry Kraft

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Frequency: 1 episode/19d. Total Eps: 77

Explores how small and mid-sized cities are tackling climate change and moving toward an equitable and sustainable future. Co-hosted by Abby Finis and Larry Kraft.

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🇨🇦 Canada - government
15/02/2025
#81
🇨🇦 Canada - government
10/02/2025
#85
🇨🇦 Canada - government
09/02/2025
#55

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https://www.a2gov.org/departments/sustainability/Carbon-Neutrality/Pages/default.aspx
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https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/11/6036
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Crookston MN: Rural community energy transition

Episode 69

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 • Duration 54:30

Crookston is a 7000+ person community in the northwest corner of Minnesota that has big ambitions to improve the life of its residents by leveraging the clean energy transition. We interview City Council Member Tim Lenard, Exec. Director of Crookston Housing Development Karie Kirshbaum, Exec. Director of NW MN Regional Sustainable Development Program Shannon Stassen, and John Vaughn, Fresh Energy's Managing Director of Community Development to learn about the Empower Crookston effort and how it spawned an I Love Crookston program.

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Empower Crookston website
City of Crookston website
Minnesota information on local climate action grants
Fresh Energy website

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Equity in Energy

Episode 68

Friday, September 13, 2024 • Duration 51:59

The negative impacts of the fossil-fuel based energy system and policies have disproportionately harmed and burdened low-income and BIPOC communities. As we transition to a clean energy economy, how do we make sure that what we put in place is equitable and just? We interview Michelle Vigen Ralston, Principal and Founder at Common Spark Consulting, about the work her team does with cities, counties, advocates, and other organizations to facilitate the creation of equitable energy policy.

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Common Spark website
Trainings mentioned
Jemez principles

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Boulder County CO: Regenerative Agriculture

Episode 59

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 • Duration 01:01:13

Regenerative Agriculture can improve soil health and water quality, sequester carbon, and increase farmer profits. It has become a key part of Boulder County's climate action. We interview Natural Capitalism Solutions President Hunter Lovins to understand regenerative agriculture's potential, and Boulder County Sustainability Office Director Susie Strife and Sustainability Strategist Tim Broderick to learn about some of the exciting actions underway in the county.

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OSCAR - Boulder County Office of Sustainability
Natural Capitalism Solutions - website
Boulder County Carbon Removal Playbook
Sustainable Food & Agriculture Fund - Grant Program
Sustainable Food & Agriculture Fund - Grantees
Article: CO expands regenerative ag program started in Boulder county
Gabe Brown and 5 principles of soil health
Colorado's STAR program on soil health
4 Corners Carbon Coalition
Mushroom bricks / concrete

Organizing Local Elected Officials

Episode 58

Tuesday, September 12, 2023 • Duration 51:15

Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA) empowers local elected officials and civic leaders to fight the climate crisis, with a special focus on lawmakers who are veterans. With leaders from all 50 states and Puerto Rico, EOPA is an organizing force for local officials to increase their impact in their own communities as well as on regional and national issues. We interview co-founders Alex Cornell du Houx, and Dominic Frongillo about their programs and some of their work, including banning fracking in NY, supporting offshore wind, and fighting for environmental justice. EOPA is also City Climate Corner's fiscal sponsor.

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EOPA website
EOPA's Certificate of Public Leadership Program - Application
Form to join EOPA as an elected official
Mentioned during intro and debrief
- Larry's Op-Ed in the Minnesota Star Tribune
- City Climate Corner episode with Max Gruenig - on running for office as a climate candidate

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Saerbeck Germany: Climate Community

Episode 57

Tuesday, August 29, 2023 • Duration 38:22

Larry recently visited Saerbeck, a village in northwest Germany that has done incredible things with renewable energy, biogas, and now green hydrogen. We interview Martin Sammler, Manager of Saerbeck's Climate Action Department, about how this village of 7200 people is producing 4 times the energy it needs with renewables, is planning to decarbonize its heating system by 2030, and is becoming a proving ground for the production of green hydrogen and electrolyzers.

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Saerbeck - climate projects backgrounder (English)
Saerbeck website (in German)
Climate Community Saerbeck
Enapter's Saerbeck electrolyzer production facility - Article

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Wellness

Episode 56

Wednesday, August 16, 2023 • Duration 21:23

With this summer of one climate disaster after another, Abby and Larry talk about how they deal with the depressing parts of climate change, and especially, what gives them hope.

Santa Monica CA: 3D Printed Bike Lanes

Episode 55

Wednesday, August 2, 2023 • Duration 45:27

More and more we're learning that protected bike lanes with physical separation from car traffic are the best at changing behavior and getting a lot more people to cycle. But they can be time consuming to construct. We interview Bike Program Coordinator Kyle Kozar, Mobility Manager Jason Kligier, and Principal Civil Engineer Selim Eren, from the City of Santa Monica, about their efforts creating bike infrastructure, and an innovative use of a construction machine to, effectively, 3D print protected bike lanes.

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Bike Action Plan Amendment
3D bike lane printing in action (Twitter video)
Protected intersection in Santa Monica (photo)
City of Santa Monica Climate Action and Adaptation Plan

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Hopkins MN: Urban heat island

Episode 54

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 • Duration 49:32

Though Hopkins is one of the smaller Minneapolis suburbs, it packs a big punch on climate action. We dig into two really innovative programs they're doing on reducing the urban heat island effect and speeding deployment of clean energy and energy efficiency solutions with a cost share program. We speak with Hopkins Mayor Patrick Hanlon and Special Projects and Initiatives Manager, PeggySue Imihy Bean, to understand how this small community is taking on big challenges.

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Hopkins Heat Vulnerability
- Story map - DEFINITELY look at this!
- Webpage and background information on study
Star Tribune 5/11/23 article on Hopkins urban heat island program
Cost Share programs mentioned (Hopkins program is not live yet)
- Green Cost Share program (Minneapolis)
- Climate Champions (St Louis Park)

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Transportation Emissions and VMT

Episode 53

Wednesday, July 5, 2023 • Duration 39:17

Transportation is now the #1 source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US. While electrification is the most obvious emissions reduction strategy, it isn't enough. We must reduce VMT, or vehicle miles travelled. We interview Anna Zetkulic, senior associate on the Carbon Free Transportation team at RMI and Miguel Moravec, an Associate with the US program, about how cities and states are tackling the issue, and the huge side benefits that come with VMT reduction.

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Article: Our Driving Habits Must Be Part of the Climate Conversation
Analysis: Minnesotans Would Save up to $91 Billion from Climate-Smart Transportation
Buffalo NY: Green code
Colorado's Greenhouse Gas program
THE HIDDEN CLIMATE SUCCESS IN MINNESOTA’S NEW TRANSPORTATION LAW
America Is All In

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Transformation in Minnesota

Episode 52

Thursday, June 1, 2023 • Duration 30:26

Minnesota recently finished a state legislative session for the ages. Democratic control of state government for the first time in a decade, combined with a historic budget surplus, led to the adoption of transformative investments and policies in most every area of government. We dig into new climate policies that especially impact MN cities. Abby interviews co-host and first-term State Representative Larry Kraft about the recently completed session and gets a run down of some of the key new climate policies that were passed into law.

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Gov Walz signs bill on 100% Clean Energy by 2040
Passed MN Climate, Energy, & Environment budget bill
Passed MN Transportation budget bill
Obama praises MN accomplishments
Larry's speech on the House floor about the Energy & Environment budget bill

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