We had a pretty great response to our request for volunteer flickr moderators for the streets.mn photo pool. While there were many worthy candidates, two led the pack with their interesting ideas and skillful eye. Please welcome Allie Klynderud and Joe Scott. They’ll be mining the depths of flickr for great shots and reaching out [...]
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Seeking a photo curator
Are you a photographer, videographer, or just a lover of urban images? Streets.mn is seeking a volunteer to help us curate our flickr group. Through flickr, we’d like to collect great images of places, transportation systems, and just interesting things in Minnesota and beyond. Flickr is a great resource for blogging – you can [...]
Streets.mn, now better looking
In case you hadn’t noticed, streets.mn got a little bit of a makeover. Our logo contest solicited a bunch of really great entries (thank you all for contributing), but the board concluded that the winner was the very capable Jesse Ross. Jesse has produced a logo for us that evokes a road, but I think [...]
The Streets.MN Network
Streets.MN is a non-profit network of Minnesota-based writers. We each posts anywhere from about 1 to 3 times per month. Beyond that, we each have our own blogs [see here] that have original content not posted on Streets.MN. I wanted to take time to highlight some of our writers blogs and recent posts. Quick Promo: [...]
From Vacant Places to Growing Spaces: Making the Twin Cities a leader in the local food movement
Urban farming is a hot topic right now. From figuring out the policies and politics around backyard beekeeping or chicken rearing, to full-on community garden spaces, there is no denying that urban agriculture is being rediscovered. So where is this push coming from? And what resources exist for newbies to the urban farming trend? I sat down [...]
Transportation costs too much
Crossposted at streets.mn and transportationist.org When I was growing up (in suburban Maryland), there was an ad on local TV from Crown Books. Founder Robert Haft asserted “books cost too much”, which led him to create Crown Books, and helped put independent booksellers out of business decades before Amazon became villain #1 among the literati. [...]
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