What’s To Be Done About Plastic?

As I recall bags flailing in trees like caught kites, and dealing with plastics on the street in front of my house and where I go for walks, I just want it all to go away. It’s not likely to happen soon.

Plastics are double- edged in the current world – we can’t live easily without plastic, but our planet is inundated with plastic pollution, on land, air and sea. Plastic bags fly freely, plastic barges float in oceans, and flattened bottles and plastic pieces scuttle in the wind all around our streets, yards and fields. And microplastic floats around in our bodies.

Neighborhood News Arts & Culture Business Local Culture

March 27, 2024 Community Reporter

Schmidt on West 7th hosts St. Paul Spring Art Crawl

What do Rembrandt, Georgia O’Keefe, Banksy and Andy Warhol have in common? They all started as local artists. Meet a

Neighborhood News Green Space & The River Local Culture

February 26, 2024 Community Reporter

Evidence for Giant Prehistoric Flood discovered in St. Paul

Highland Creek is among the more obscure streams in St. Paul, largely because it has been diverted underground by city engineers. But this stream has long harbored a secret—it was the scene of a giant prehistoric flood. Much of the evidence has been lying around in plain sight for years, but the dots have never been connected. Until now.