One Woman's Fight Against Wasteful Buying and Tossing

Jeanne Marie Laskas is wonderful.

"When the shoelace on my left boot snapped (it had been weakened in an incident last winter with a cat), an observant college student in one of the classes I teach said with a smile, "Looks like it's time for some new boots." I looked down. There was nothing wrong with the boot itself. "It's a shoelace," I said."

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