Landmark Mall rendering (image via City of Alexandria)
The plans to redevelop Landmark Mall are moving forward but with a corollary added at the Planning Commission last week that requires the developer to step up their green energy policies and caused some tension on the Commission.
Dissatisfaction with the developer’s green energy plans were first expressed by Commissioner Stephen Koenig. He acknowledged that the developers hit the bare minimums required, but suggested the city should wield its power of approval for greater density to push for more.
“I am disconcerted this does not propose, and the city does not yet require, an explicit vision… carbon neutrality,” Koenig said. “If this is 2.4 million square feet of new buildings, creating a dozen new blocks, were animated by such a vision it would make an exemplary contribution to our efforts.”
Regenerating native forests to fight climate change
Regenerating native forests to fight climate change
By Michele S. Byers
In the effort to slow climate change, forests are a powerful ally. Trees naturally remove harmful carbon dioxide from the air and store, or “sequester,” it in their roots, branches and wood.
But future generations of giant canopy trees must be able to reproduce. As individual trees are lost to storms, drought, or disease, new generations of saplings and seedlings must be waiting in the understory to fill in gaps that open in the canopy.
Recent studies show that resilient, mature forests will continue to sequester more carbon than newly planted or recently logged forests well into the future.
Douglas âDougâ Muesing
MINNEAPOLIS Douglas “Doug” James Muesing, age 74 of Minneapolis (formerly Nicollet) died on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, at the VA Hospital in Minneapolis.
Funeral service will be 11 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Nicollet. Pastor Micah Plocher will officiate, and burial will follow in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery in rural Nicollet where full military honors will be provided by the Nicollet American Legion Honor Guard.
Visitation will be from 9-11 a.m. on Friday at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Nicollet.
The Minnesota Valley Funeral Homes of New Ulm are assisting the family with arrangements at this time.
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