During ENVS 160, a vast amount of knowledge gets thrown your way and it can often be hard to fully understand what the point of it all is. How does one take all this information and form useful long-term learning from it? Since reading the first book, I have found myself asking myself this question, […]
Institutional or Individual; Why Not Both?
While reading Paul F. Steinberg’s Who Rules the Earth, I have noticed that it often times can be hard to piece together the main argument that he is trying to prove. Steinberg talks about many useful things in varying degrees of detail, and while this can be incredibly useful it also makes the bigger argument […]
The Very Fabric of Environmental Studies
While it’s often easy to look at what we learn in ENVS 160 under the lens of a microscope, it is also easily as important to pull away and view specific argument and beliefs in conjunction with each other. This allows for a greater understanding of the texts as a whole, and can often create […]
Breaking Through the Boundaries of my Past
While sitting down to reflected on this past semester in Environmental Studies, a few ideas stuck out to me more than many others. Many of these were fairly bubble shattering for me, and greatly affected what core concepts about environmentalism I believe in and gave me even further background to expand on those beliefs. Of these […]