Tag Archives: Environment

Nestlé CEO Announces Company’s Act of Goodwill

[Editor’s Note: The Pointless is the Pointer’s annual satirical article. Pointless stories should not be taken seriously on April Fool’s Day or any other.] Nestlé’s CEO Mark Schneider announced in a press conference last Thursday that the company will be returning all their water supply back to the springs and groundwater wells on Feb. 23, 2023. Billions of gallons of ... Read More »

Processing Compost and Recycling on Campus at the Waste Education Center

Editor’s note: Because of staffing issues early in the fall 2022 semester, several stories that were completed in a timely fashion were unfortunately not published when they should have been. Because Pointer staff members still feel them to be important for-the-record stories, we are publishing them as we can without shifting their focus from the time period in which they ... Read More »

Controversy Over Tree Trimming in Portage County

Tree trimming and removal in Portage County causes a yearly controversy between residents who say the nature along the right of way is either hazardous or beautiful. Portage County highway commissioner Nathaniel Check said that his team takes due consideration of beauty, aesthetics, and integrity of the road. The 2018 traffic system commission team deemed that 30 feet from the ... Read More »

Eco-Socialists Making Local Impacts

The group previously known as the College Greens – largely in support of the Green Party and its values – changed its name to the Eco-Socialists of UWSP on Oct. 24. The group’s Facebook page commented on this change. “We feel that by branding ourselves as ‘Eco-Socialists’,” the page stated, “the ultimate goal and purpose of our club is more ... Read More »

A Schmeeckle Story

It was the summer of 2017. A devastating storm made its way through Wisconsin, tearing up everything in its path. As fate would have it, this storm would pass directly through central Wisconsin, decimating our trees and forests. During that storm, a slice of our hometown nature reserve, Schmeeckle Reserve, took the brunt of the damage. Much of the forest ... Read More »

High electric bills got you down? Let us help!

Most of us are in the same boat. College students just struggling to get by. Some of us have jobs, some of us don’t. No matter the case, you can keep your wallets a bit heavier this winter by following these cheap and easy conservation tips to help lower your electric bill. For starters, consider leaving your blinds open during ... Read More »

Curbside Compost Pickup Comes to Stevens Point

Two local farms, Rising Sand Organics and Whitefeather Organics, are partnering to offer a compost pick-up service in Stevens Point. Each Thursday they collect five-gallon buckets full of compost from homes around town. The waste is taken to Whitefeather Organics where it is composted further.  Eventually the compost will be used to fertilize fields at Whitefeather Organics and Rising Sand ... Read More »

Cornerstone Press Launches First of New Book Series

  Last Wednesday, UW-Stevens Point’s Cornerstone Publishing launched a new book titled “Ecological Reflections on Post-Capitalist Society” by Clint Jones, a UWSP professor. The book launch took place on Wednesday, Sept. 26, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., in Michelson Hall of the Noel Fine Arts Center.  The book is the first in Cornerstone’s new series that will be dealing with ... Read More »

Food without the baggage

Whether it is straws, coffee cups or candy wrappers, the trash we create adds up. The average American produces 4.4 pounds of waste each day, equating to 1,606 pounds a year, according to a 2013 Environmental Protection Agency report.  Rob Greenfield, environmental activist, illustrated this statistic by strapping every piece of trash he used onto his body and carrying it ... Read More »

Wisconsin Birds Fly Through Adversity

Blizzard Evelyn wasn’t only an inconvenience to humans, but to earth’s feathered friends as well. The spring snowstorm dumped over two feet across the Upper Midwest, two weeks ago. Stevens Point was one of the many cities digging out from mother nature’s unwanted gift. Migratory birds recently returned to Wisconsin not expecting to endure the weather they escape from every ... Read More »