By, Laura Estrada Have you ever attempted to change something about yourself because you knew that it would better something or someone? For a class project we were challenged to change a behavior in our lives that has a negative…
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Series: Sustainability and You
Convenience Kills Connor Fass The convenience of plastic materials, whether plastic bags, bottles, or any other type of packaging, is slowly poisoning the environments we all live in. I’ve learned this terrifying truth while conducting an environmental research experiment…
Series: Sustainability and You
Plastic Water Bottles and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch by Cesar Ponce The fall semester at John Jay was quite unique for me. For my Sustainability 280 class, I was assigned to make a behavior change that would promote…
Series: Sustainability and You
by Amanda Zufolo Reusable Water Bottle vs. Plastic Water Bottles Back in the beginning of the semester, we were asked to pick a sustainable habit and follow through with it until the end of the semester, but ultimately for…
Series: Sustainability and You
Sustainability & You Series Over the course of the fall 2015 semester, students in Jennifer Pipitone’s Environmental Psychology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sustainability course carried out a semester project entitled “Sustainability& You.” The project was designed to give students insight…
The Fight for Change in Asthma Alley
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.…
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: Activism, Environmental Justice, New York City, parks, Pollution, south bronx, Sustainability
Student Post – Measuring your Ecological Footprint
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…
Student Post on Water and Food Scarcity
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…
Student Post on Alternative Energy
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…
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Student Post On Food Scarcity
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,…
