As we continue to deplete our resources—and pollute our air and water in the process—the challenge to satisfy our energy needs continues to mount. How will our generation respond? The Energy and Sustainability Decal (ENERES 98), which will be offered in Spring 2021, aims to provide students with the tools to analyze alternative paths to a sustainable future as well as introduce a broad range of perspectives in the energy field.
Read MoreThis weekend, I finished The Overstory. One character has a worldview that I very much share: humans are destroying this planet, and we won’t turn the ship around unless seemingly-impossible steps are taken. To be frank, I don’t think these steps will be taken, or at least not until indescribable suffering has occurred.
Read MoreYou learn about climate change and how increasing transit ridership will help decrease emissions. But then you start working for an actual transit agency and realize your riders don’t give a shit about climate change and are riding because they have to, and don’t have the time to sit on a smelly train just to be environmental; everyone would rather just drive. Instead of pushing a purely environmental message, how do we make transit safer, nicer, and cheaper for people that depend on it the most?
Read MoreAs an Environmental Science major who is deeply involved in a multitude of environmental student orgs, I find myself immersed in a community of mostly upper middle class white females. I have found myself in so many spaces where the topics of race and inaccessibility to the environmental movement are not discussed and often pushed under the rug when brought up, because nobody really knows how to address them.
Read MoreAs an Environmental Science major who is deeply involved in a multitude of environmental student orgs, I find myself immersed in a community of mostly upper middle class white females. I have found myself in so many spaces where the topics of race and inaccessibility to the environmental movement are not discussed and often pushed under the rug when brought up, because nobody really knows how to address them.
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