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Sustainability Week
KUMD shares a week of sustainability interviews leading up the the Lake Superior Sustainable Farming Association's annual Harvest Festival.

9/3 Sustainability Week: Minnesota Renewable Energy Society

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published September 3, 2015 at 12:10 PM CDT
Hartley Nature Center

Growing up on a South Dakota farm, Doug Shoemaker used to think how great it would be to drive around all day in a vehicle that ran on sunshine.

Fast-forward to today: Doug's retired from his job at Xcel Energy (where he was a service and construction vehicle fleet manager) and he's on the board of the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society, helping to organize and plan next month's Minnesota Solar Tour and getting ready to talk with folks about renewable energy at the Lake Superior Harvest Festival September 12.
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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