Jamie Harvie

"Grocery stores have tried to offer a five-cent reward to bring your own bag and people weren't motivated, but for the exact same amount, people will do anything to avoid the fee."

It seemed unfair to have a poetry series celebrating poets who represent home to people who aren't "from here" originally and exclude Canadians. So…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

If you give him a minute, Jamie Harvie is the kind of person who can tell you how all kinds of disparate things are connected.Take for example, the…