Joanne Guerra SUS 200 THE FIGHT FOR CHANGE IN ASTHMA ALLEY When you’re born and raised in New York City you learn to deal with all kinds of smells. Smells that range from sizzling scrumptious pizza to week-old garbage. …
Joanne Guerra Racing Extinction Racing Extinction, directed by Louie Psihoyos, is a 2015 documentary in which undercover activists illustrate the mass extinction of animals due to human activity. These activists traveled globally and brought to light issues of the …
Ecological Footprint By Serena Windett, student in Prof. Popov’s Introduction to Sustainability Studies class The term “ecological footprint” is unfamiliar to a lot of people around the world. It is important because it measures the impact of a person …
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by Desiree Williams and Darwin Huo: People are selfish Killing the environment Protectors emerge
Prof. Popov’s SUS 300: Environmental Justice class has created haiku poems. Here are two of them. Haiku poem by Steven Vargas and Vinicio Cordova: Environment lives But people refuse to change Environment dies Animal Haiku …
Jonathan Trinidad Falling Water Tables and Shrinking Harvest In his book World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, Lester R. Brown writes about “Falling Water Tables and Shrinking Harvests.” He discusses how the traditional …
Diana Kochkareva Wind, Solar, and Geothermal Energy Chapter 9 of Lester R. Brown’s World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse explains the possibilities for renewable energy with wind, solar, and geothermal. Because of the environmental problems …
The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity by Hue Chen Not only are we facing a crisis of exploitation and depletion of the limited resources and other various environmental problems, we face another troubling concern, worldwide food shortages. As a world, …
Stung by the Climate by Vincent Irizarry I went to an event called Stung by the Climate, a unit of three short films at the New York Institute of Technology for Climate Week. Check out previews for the films here. …
Great report on a recent Eco-Fashion Show held at John Jay College by Milena Popov and her students. Please check out the link to see more pictures of the incredible articles our students made. EcoFashionShow-MilenaPopov-article