Haikus by Students
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 …
Category: Uncategorized
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 …
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, …
Stung by the Climate – A report on A Film Event
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. …
Eco-Fashion Show
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
Blogging from Paris
SEJ program member Karen Malpede has now returned from France, but her blog posts about her experiences in Paris during the UN climate talks and her participation there in ArtCOP21, the festival of cultural activity on climate change, continue to …
Eco Fashion Show
Eco Fashion Show at the John Jay College By Milena Popov Photo by Carolina Fernandez Photo by Elijah Wilson John Jay’s first ever Eco Fashion Show happened on Tuesday, October 27, 2015 during community hour on the Jay Walk …
Radio Plays a Great Success
Radio Plays Performed by John Jay Students Address Climate Change By Rebecca Fullan and Kaitlin Mondello From November 30 to Dec. 5, 2015, Professor Karen Malpede and her Sustainability and Environmental Justice and Theatre and Justice classes produced …
John Jay Students Experiment to Solve Oil Spills
SUS 200: Introduction to Sustainability Studies students brainstorming and testing oil spill clean up methods in a simple experiment