ENVISION MINNESOTA seeks to ask and answer the question: what do we see when we imagine Minnesota, now and in the future?
Particularly, consider our land, our water, and our air. Think about the natural look and feel of Minnesota and the trends and demographics affecting the state. We believe that each of us should be compelled to ask if we are doing what we must - whether as individuals, corporations, or communities - to assure that our actions today project and realize the vision we share for tomorrow?
Over the past year, dozens of Minnesota leaders have enthusiastically responded to our call to take the long view. Working through a series of focus groups and team deliberations, the dedicated volunteers of the Envision Minnesota Project have endeavored to identify the most significant environmental priorities facing our state and to strategize about how we might address those priorities in a focused, thoughtful, meaningful way.
Our collective thinking is divided into five critical areas:
1. Taking Responsibility By Valuing True Environmental Costs and Benefits;
2. Leaving a Clean Water Legacy;
3. Creating New Energy Sources and Saving Energy;
4. Planning for Rapid Growth and Continued Prosperity; and
5. Protecting Our Natural Heritage and Abundant Wildlife.
Our effort has been deliberately non-partisan in approach, bringing together individuals from all ideologies around a "consent" agenda which we today begin taking to gubernatorial candidates and candidates for other offices, government agencies at the state and local level, interested groups and organizations, and, most importantly, citizens of the state.
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