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Humans have been able to advance our technological abilities and grow our population to such a great extent that we are now in what is called the anthropocene by many. This means that we are in an era where our very own species is in control of the fate of the planet. We are changingContinue reading “Our Change.”

Water can be easily taken for granted by many of the millions of relatively wealthy (i.e. relative to the way the majority of people in the world live) people in the United States, but with increasing effects of climate change taking hold decades earlier than predicted and extreme environmental degradation of natural areas, more andContinue reading “Water is Life, is Life, is Life.”

What does it mean to ‘be safe’ in the modern age? We are exposed to hazards that could potentially have detrimental effects on our health far more often than many of us realize or choose to think about (oftentimes even on a daily basis). According to Miller and Spoolman, there are five major categories ofContinue reading “Close the Loop!”

What we learn from both Food Inc. and Symphony of Soil is that going forward into a sustainable future in terms of food means going backwards in time: going back to basics, returning to nature. In Symphony of Soil, soil scientists, microbiologists, ecologists, and organic farmers shed light upon the great importance of healthy soilContinue reading “Return.”

Our current methods of growing, transporting, and packaging food is contributing to massive amounts of death throughout the global land and sea. As we nourish ourselves, we must not poison the rest of the life around us. For example, take the Great Pacific Garbage patch (and the other 6 in the other oceans as well).Continue reading “Poison.”

Change. According to G. Tyler Miller and Scott E. Spoolman, sustainability is “the capacity of the earth’s natural systems that support life and human social systems to survive or adapt to changing environmental conditions indefinitely” (Miller, 4). They identify three scientific principles as being the key reasons why this planet has been able to sustainContinue reading “FINAL”

As the human population approaches its eight billionth person, many are questioning more worriedly: how human lives can this planet sustain? There has been much debate about the answer to this question among scientists, demographers, and economists for the past 200 years beginning with the hypothesis proposed by British economist Thomas Malthus in 1798. MalthusContinue reading “Voluntary Simplicity is the Way!”

The United States today is certainly one that is quite different than the country that the founding fathers envisioned. Rather than being a collection of diverse citizens that are accurately informed about how the government operates, who runs the country, and have a direct say in that process to make sure that corruption and oversteppingContinue reading “mindless.”

An individual’s perspective on the environment and how they relate to it can have a significant impact on the way they make economic decisions, the way they vote, and the way they just go about their daily life. While there are many different environmental perspectives, these perspectives can be primarily categorized in one of twoContinue reading “Empathy.”

Coined in the 1990s, the term “Big History” refers to the study of history tracing all the way back to humanity’s estimated origin of the universe itself. Necessarily, its scope spans over 14 billion years and areas of focus include the Big Bang and the universe’s continuous expansion thereafter, the death of stars, the formationContinue reading “Zoom Out.”