On December 29, 2019, seven people met at Dual Citizen Brewery in St. Paul, and there we created the streets.mn Climate Emergency Committee. We had a few in-person writing meet-ups before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, and even though none of us could anticipate the events that followed throughout the year of 2020, we maintained our monthly meetings, moving from in-person to online. Altogether, we wrote 29 posts in 2020. Some were joyous, many were critical, some were realistic, and some were downright sad, but they all reflect on our individual thoughts, hopes, and experiences as human beings in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metro Area and share the spirit of how we use streets.mn and what it means to us.
Individually, none of us are in positions with any power more than the words in the posts we write, but we came together and created this group because we all care a lot about this planet we all live on. Earth needs to provide sustenance for future generations and the current climate outlook is really dire. Actually, extremely dire! We hope that if everyone reading would make small personal changes like reducing car use, eating more plants, and planting more perennials, as well as embracing some larger lifestyle shifts such as reducing car ownership, sharing walls, and reducing and reusing our material use instead of only recycling, that will result in a cascade of climate action and a true path towards a sustainable future.
That is why we created this committee. Care to join us this year? Contact us!
