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Contact Information
Philipp Muessig and Paul Moss
Sustainable Communities Team
Environmental Assistance
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
520 Lafayette Rd. N., 2nd Floor
St. Paul, MN 55155-4194
(651) 296-6300 or (800) 657-3864
nextstep@state.mn.us
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World Energy Outlook 2008 - With a new tone of urgency, the International Energy Agency (IEA) states: "global conventional oil ... will come around 2020 to a [production] plateau ... What is needed is nothing short of an energy revolution ... [and] radical action by governments at national and local levels. We should leave oil before it leaves us." (12/13)
Minnesota GreenStar Certified Homes and Remodeling - Created by Minnesota home builders, remodelers, building science specialists, the Green Institute and the MPCA, MN GreenStar is an extremely well-designed residential building standards, training and certification program. (12/13)
Transition Town Movement - The Transition Town Movement began this decade in England as a grassroots effort of communities to reinvent themselves in order to create a more resilient, sustainable and positive local future in light of climate change, peak oil and declining net energy for current energy sources. (12/5)
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