Natural Awakenings Twin Cities March 2023
Read the March 2023 edition of Natural Awakenings Twin Cities magazine. This is our annual Food and Nutrition Issue which features articles on plant-based resources, veggies for the win, supplements that help the heart, organs of detoxification, health coaching, releasing emotional baggage, human-grade dog foods, eco-friendly water heating and so much more! Be sure to check out our local content, including News Briefs announcements, Community Resource Guide with providers throughout the metro who can meet your individual wellness needs, and all the happenings in the Calendar of Events. There is additional online-only content that can be found at NATwinCities.com.
Read the March 2023 edition of Natural Awakenings Twin Cities magazine. This is our annual Food and Nutrition Issue which features articles on plant-based resources, veggies for the win, supplements that help the heart, organs of detoxification, health coaching, releasing emotional baggage, human-grade dog foods, eco-friendly water heating and so much more!
Be sure to check out our local content, including News Briefs announcements, Community Resource Guide with providers throughout the metro who can meet your individual wellness needs, and all the happenings in the Calendar of Events. There is additional online-only content that can be found at NATwinCities.com.
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news briefs<br />
Solar Co-op Moves<br />
Forward, Accepting<br />
New Members<br />
The <strong>Twin</strong> <strong>Cities</strong> Area Solar Co-op is<br />
underway, with more than 50 residents<br />
already signed on, and open to new members<br />
(homeowners and business owners) in<br />
the larger <strong>Twin</strong> <strong>Cities</strong> metro area, including<br />
Anoka and Sherburne counties, until April 30.<br />
The solar co-op is a partnership between<br />
nonprofit group Solar United Neighbors<br />
(SUN); the City of Coon Rapids; Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light; the City<br />
of Minneapolis Sustainability Division; and the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society.<br />
Co-op members recently selected Minnesota-based installer iSolar to serve members of<br />
the group through a competitive bidding process. Personalized proposals are going out<br />
now based on the group rate.<br />
SUN expands access to solar by educating Minnesotans about the benefits of distributed<br />
solar energy, helping them organize group solar installations, and strengthening Minnesota<br />
solar policies and its community of solar supporters.<br />
“I am excited to work with iSolar to develop a solution that is good for the planet,<br />
my home and my budget (current and future),” states Cathy Petersen, a solar co-op member<br />
who served on the co-op installer selection committee. “I learned a great deal as a<br />
participant in the installer selection process; it was informative and provided me with the<br />
information I needed to choose to go forward with this investment.”<br />
Co-op members may also be able to use the solar tax credit for rooftop solar thanks<br />
to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022. The IRA increases the tax<br />
credit to 30 percent and extends it for another 10 years while also expanding other clean<br />
energy incentives like home battery storage. These credits make solar and electrification<br />
more affordable than ever.<br />
The solar co-op is free to join; doing so is not a commitment to purchase panels. By<br />
going solar as a group and choosing a single installer, members can save on the total cost<br />
and have the support of fellow group members and solar experts at SUN.<br />
Since 2013, SUN has been helping neighbors join together and go solar around<br />
the country, completing 325 solar co-ops, and helping more than 7,000 people go solar,<br />
including more than 200 in Minnesota.<br />
For more information, visit SolarUnitedNeighbors.org/twincities.<br />
Releasing Emotional<br />
Baggage<br />
While nutritious food, exercise, great<br />
sleep and managing stress are keys<br />
to maintaining health, research has shown<br />
that community connection plays an even<br />
greater role in our well-being.<br />
Retired Doctor of Chiropractic Bradley<br />
Nelson discovered that many people have<br />
heart walls that can lead to isolation, depression,<br />
divorce, pain, abuse and more. Heart<br />
walls are energetic walls created by our subconscious<br />
mind to protect us from danger. It<br />
turns out emotional baggage is invisible yet<br />
real. Trapped emotions are well-defined energetics<br />
with a shape and a form, and these<br />
emotional energies make up these walls.<br />
Mary Rice, owner of Your Healing<br />
Connection, recommends Nelson’s book<br />
The Emotion Code to all of her clients.<br />
“Releasing heart walls allows people<br />
to feel again, experience more love, joy and<br />
connection and better health,” says Rice. “The<br />
book is filled with life-changing stories and<br />
research of the benefits of this work.”<br />
Cost: $23.49, available at most bookstores.<br />
To learn more, visit YourHealing<br />
Connection.com.<br />
Courtesy of DiscoverHealing.com<br />
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