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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Prof. Popov’s SUS 300: Environmental Justice class has created haiku poems. Here are few of them. Save Her Polluted Nation Destroying Mother Nature Create Salvation By Danielle Cabrera and Caroline Diaz Breath to Death …
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 …