My advice to you as a freshman in ENVS 160 is to come into this class with no expectations and an open mind. When I first came into this class I didn’t really know what to expect but I thought that it was going to be something very different than what it was. There was […]
Before and After
Coming into ENVS 160, I expected to learn about the problems facing the environment and then explore various solutions to either change or reverse the problems. Having learned about climate change and the precarious state of the earth, I mistakenly thought that there would be clear steps to solve the various environmental problems facing our […]
Rules Will Always Reign
Paul Steinberg’s main argument in Who Rules the Earth? (2015) is that if we want to create any sort of change for the environment then we must first look towards the social rules to implement this change. The social rules are the rules and institutions that govern our lives, including the laws and regulations as […]
Connecting the Concepts
In my ENVS 160 class, we read multiple texts that discussed climate change and other modern environmental problems affecting the our world. These texts include Why We Disagree About Climate Change by Mike Hulme (2015), Austerity Ecology & The Collapse-Porn Addicts by Leigh Phillips (2015), Who Rules the Earth? by Paul Steinberg (2015), and other […]
Evolving My Environmental Thought
When I first chose ENVS 160, I didn’t really know what to expect out of the class because I felt that I already knew a fair amount about the environment and how to protect it against climate change. Most of my knowledge about the environment came from my very eco-friendly family and from my experiences […]
Let’s Get Critical About Ecocriticism
By: Shoshana Rybeck, Heather Shaw, Berkly Martell Definition The term ecocriticism can have a very simple definition, but when looked at more deeply is a lot harder to define. The simple definition is the study of the relationship between certain conceptions of nature, physical environment and literature. There are two defined movements in ecocriticism, referred […]
Silicon puts the “Si” in Significance
By: Berkly Martell, Summer Watkins, Shoshana Rybeck, Kyle Mezrahi, Jesse Milman An Introduction to Silicon The eighth most common element by mass in the universe, silicon (Si), is a shiny, charcoal colored metalloid, labeled with the atomic number 14. Although not identified as silicon in its natural state, it is mined as silica and produced […]