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Green Visions: yes, it's a group effort; but every little bit helps

If you think college students keep members of "the establishment" on their toes, you should see what effect high school students have.

MPIRG (Minnesota Public Interest Research Group) has had a chapter at UMD since 1971, and even all these years later, incoming freshmen arrive with a passion to make a difference.

Even fifty years after the first Earth Day, students at UMD are galvanized by environmental justice issues, and they're already pulling details together for the next  environmental summit: Our Planet, Our Future: There is No Duluth B.

Folks interested in attending the summit or co-sponsoring the event can contact MPIRG via their MPIRG at UMD Facebook pageor by sending them an email at umdmpirg@d.umn.edu.

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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