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Sad, but true.For decades, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent to educate us about the three Rs: reduce, reuse, and recycle.And yet, in spite…
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The vote to ban single-use bags - paper AND plastic - was pushed back a couple of weeks on Monday night to allow for more discussion.A…
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Jamie Harvie still doesn't know why it's taken so long for the Duluth City Council to take up a proposed ordinance to ban single-use bags (paper and…
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Most cash registers are ready for it.Most retailers know it's coming.Over two thousand people in Duluth have signed a pledge to support it.Even the…
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When the video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw lodged in its nose (taken by a marine biologist and posted to YouTube) went viral, the conversation…
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Administrators at the College of St. Scholastica are surely still shaking their heads.The CSS Student Senate just passed a resolution asking to be charged…
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Without a "garbage patch" in Lake Superior (like the floating rafts of plastic debris found in our oceans), maybe it's hard to work up concern about the…