Alex FriedrichThis announcement just in from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency: MnSCU penalized for hazardous waste violations in St. Cloud, Brainerd The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has penalized the Minnesota State Colleges and University System (MnSCU) for hazardous waste violations at St. Cloud Technical & Community College in St. Cloud and Central Lakes College in Read more →
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Those Oles must love their college. I’m still getting e-mail about my visit to St. Olaf last month. My little piece on the chicken wrap at the Lion’s Cage also seems to have touched a minor environmental nerve, judging from feedback I’ve received. (After seeing so much environmental consciousness at the school, at the time Read more →
This just in from the College of St. Benedict: CSB eliminates sale and purchase of plastic water bottles on campus Effective Monday, Aug. 22, the College of Saint Benedict is the first college in Minnesota and one of nine in the United States to implement a water bottle policy which eliminates the sale and purchase Read more →
University of Minnesota senior Andy Pearson says why it may be better to go to a low-profile climate-change conference rather than one in the international spotlight: “Going in to Copenhagen, that was a story of heightened expectations and the world looking on. The storyline in Cancun here is one of extremely low expectations, which in Read more →
Macalester College is considering a ban on bottled water this fall following a proposal by student Clare Pillsbury, The Mac Weekly reports. Her proposal comes as bottled water has taken a hit nationally for both its cost and variable quality. A survey of students, faculty and staff showed: Students were generally in favor, with the Read more →
The 5th annual College Sustainability Report Card, which bills itself as the only independent evaluation of the sustainability of North American campuses and their investments, has rated a handful of Minnesota colleges and universities for their greenness — as well as how socially responsible they are. How they stack up, according to results released today: Read more →
Here’s an e-mail sent out to several news outlets that appears to contain the same information as that in the sidebar update of the Twin Cities Daily Planet story on the U’s pulling of the Troubled Waters film. Update: The information does come from the Daily Planet story. Is there fire to the smoke in Read more →