The Key to Decreasing CO2 Emissions Might Be Just Beneath Your Feet!
By: Bibiana Egbunike Yes, you read that right, the key to decreasing C02 emissions might just be beneath your feet. Kiss the Ground, a 2020 Netflix documentary directed by Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Josh Tickell offers a new and hopeful perspective on the detrimental problem of increasing emissions and soil degradation. As the name suggests, we…
The I in Team
By: Meadow Funkenhauser We’ve all heard the endless debate over the effectiveness of individual efforts in the environmental movement. And you can believe whatever you want about the effectiveness, but I believe the real message to be learned from this debate is the idea of supply and demand. Of course it is important that we…
April Showers Bring May Floods
By: Rachel Krueger As spring beckons, the longer days and return of green life only bring me a sense of mild dread. I’m bracing for the inevitable. Floods. Floods that leave a community with more than a lingering memory of devastation from years past. Floods that increasingly devastate communities year, after year, after year. Two…
Becoming Fashion Forward
By: Neha Lal If you’re in a student in the Faculty of Environment, you probably already know about the fast fashion industry and everything wrong with itYou’ve heard about the underpaid and overworked garment workers in unsafe factories overseas, you’ve learned about dyes being dumped in rivers, you’ve seen pictures of the mountains of textile…
A Cataclysmic Performance of Breaking White
A poem about melting glaciers By: Bibiana Egbunike A mass of scintillating white is crumbling into the sea trapped tightly in the clutches of heat with nowhere to flee its arms once stretched high in the mountains and over the land the increased temperature, it cannot withstand First a drop, a trickle, then a wave…
Student Activists Spark Change in the University: The SERS Undergraduate Education Committee
By: the SERS Undergraduate Education Committee The SERS Undergraduate Education Committee is a group of students with the goal of improving the Environment Resources and Sustainability (ERS) curriculum. The committee works with SERS students, faculty, and staff to make improvements on ERS programming and to support the interests of students in their education. Every second…
How the Commodification of Organic Agriculture Marginalizes Women Farmers
By: Nicole Pham-Quan The organic agriculture movement in Canada and the United States is known for promoting socio-ecological sustainability. However, as large corporations have commodified the movement into a booming industry, the ethical principles of organic agriculture and the movement’s strides towards gender equality are at risk of being undermined. Organic agriculture was developed as…
Mountains, Lakes, and Forests: The Rugged Beauty of Banff
By Michelle Angkasa A year into quarantine, I’m more nostalgic than ever for the days when we were able to travel. Since I was young, I’ve had the opportunity to go on vacation every summer. In 2018, we got together with my whole extended family, rented a couple of cabins, and explored Banff National Park.…
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