Politics
This semester it feels like California cannot catch a break. Within a month, we have had thousands of acres of both Northern and Southern California burn, a tornado and hail storm in Davis, earthquakes, and PGE’s power shutoffs. These events have changed what it means to live in the Bay Area.
Read MoreFor thousands of years, Mauna Kea has been a cultural and spiritual mecca for the native Kanaka Maoli people. It’s a place whose ecosystem has been traditionally managed by the Kanaka Maoli, and has been threatened in recent years by invasive plants and increasingly extreme weather patterns. It’s a religious site where tribal members have traditionally practiced services, a cultural center for celebration and mourning, and the site of some human remains from Kanaka Maoli tribal members buried there. It’s also where some UC Berkeley linked organizations want to build a telescope.
Read MoreOn September 17th, 2019, in the days just before the international climate strikes and walkouts as a part of Fridays for Future, the UC announced its commitment to divest from fossil fuel industries. The UC Regents decision passed with 77% approval, and 80% on the Berkeley campus, an astonishingly high approval rate for these votes. The UC went above and beyond the student and the faculty demands, and agreed to full divestment.
Read MoreThe 68-year-old governor of Washington is not someone you expect to be the champion of climate advocates. An ex-high school footballer who has been a career politician for decades, Inslee is a far cry from anti-establishment candidates the environmental movement usually support.
Read MoreOver the past few years, the “personal vs. political” conversation has ricocheted throughout environmental communities and remains a point of discussion among scholars and activists alike.
In a recent article, I dipped my toes into this debate. This time, I took a plunge.
Read MoreIron fertilization is part of the burgeoning movement of geoengineering – the idea that humans can purposefully shape natural processes on a global scale, most notably to combat climate change. It’s a controversial idea that is universally recognized to need significantly more testing to work. One of the most promising ideas to emerge from the geoengineering field is that of iron fertilization, something that has the capacity to drastically reduce our net greenhouse emissions.
Read MoreBanning plastic straws constitutes something of a low hanging fruit – it is an easy first step, but we cannot stop now. Environmentalists should seek to capitalize on the attention brought to plastic straw bans and highlight the success of our efforts, meanwhile directing that energy towards more substantial policy instruments that curtail the aforementioned products that constitute most of our plastic waste.
Read MoreThe Green New Deal launched on February 7th, and received huge public support and momentum from across the country, especially from young activists and environmentalists.
Read MoreIn the decades following Plan Colombia’s initiation, rates of Parkinson’s and certain types of cancer have increased enormously. For years, scientists have studied and found an association between Parkinson’s and Roundup, and many now agree that there is also an epigenetic connection.
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