John Jay College’s 6th Annual three-day marathon of award-winning environmental documentaries. Monday April 15, 2019 through Wednesday, April 17, 2019 in John Jay College’s New Building Student Dining Hall. Full Schedule at: jjay.cuny.edu/ecocinema Free Tickets at: http://tinyurl.com/jjc-films Films Screening in …
by Austin Fodera The inspirationfor my project was the viral video that came out showing a turtle with a plastic straw lodged in his nostril. This video prompted me to make a model seaturtle out of plastic straws. To illustrate …
by Danielle Cabrera Although the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may seem like just an island of floating trash, it is actually a great danger to sea animals and humans. Everyone needs to know how this environmental issue is …
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Food should be shared, not thrown away! by Rolando Galan There is enough food to feed everyone worldwide, but in the course of a year about 1.3 billion tons of food were wasted by gluttonous human behavior (Buzy).There are currently …
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 …
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 …
As part of the Sierra Club’s Sustainability Series, a panel discussion on ocean pollution will be held on Wednesday, June 10, 2015, at Seafarers & International House, 123 E. 15th St., Manhattan. Door open at 6:30 for refreshments and the talk starts …
Public talk: “Oceans: Fixable messes? How we can help” Read more »
By Bailey Sincox Preface to Fracking: An Epic Poem “But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” –Rachel Carson Marcellus’ story is just that: a story. Building upon the Odyssey, the …