Since I can remember, my life goal has always been to make a ‘change in the world’. In the past I attempted reaching this goal by individual action, blogging, photography and educating myself through documentaries and my own research. However, these steps only looped me back around to where I began and the world remained unchanged. ENVS […]
Unruly Solutions to Unruly Problems
In Who Rules the Earth? by Paul F. Steinberg (2015), the author argues that the way to make real and lasting environmental change, is by changing the social rules that govern us. Social rules, in this sense, are institutions. Today the public tends to hold the ideology that power is unassailable, but this, as it […]
Evaluating Ideals: means for realistic change
Bringing relativity to change, bringing it to you (WWD ←→ WRE) Why We Disagree About Climate Change by Mike Hulme (2015) insists that to solve wicked problems, (such as climate change) we need clumsy solutions. This solution requires that we pool together our different values, frameworks and voices, in order to work together and devise […]
You can’t say Environment in Environmental Studies
Lesson 1: Individual Action is good, but not enough. Coming into ENVS 160, I was honestly very skeptical. For years prior to this course I was dedicated to changing my small habits in order to minimize my own guilt and remove myself from the problem of climate change. I took five minute showers, went Vegan, […]
Agrarians: Experts in Their Field
This post was written by Kiaora Motson, Hannah Schandelmeier-Lynch, Grace Boyd and Emma Hay. Definition Agrarianism is a philosophy and movement aimed at reconstructing an agrarian-based society to preserve individual freedom and cultivate a strong skepticism of urbanized technology. Although agrarianism encompasses many types of people, most fall under two main categories: romantics and rationalists. Rationalists “celebrate […]
A Sub(Lime) World of Materials
This post was created by Emma Hay and Kurt Barbara. Overview The sedimentary rock limestone, generally is a combination of mineral calcite and grains, made up of various skeletal fragments such as coral, diatoms, peloids, intraclasts and foraminifera, but can vary depending on region location (5). For example, the limestone in Southeast Asia consists largely […]
Where does Climate Change Fall on Our Priority List?
Procedure: Our team consists of Emma Hay, Justin Wilson, Sophie Henry and Jesse McDermott-Hughes. To collect data, we took the Pio to Pioneer Square in downtown PDX and approached various people surveying public opinion regarding the importance Climate Change. We asked them to rank how important Climate Change was to them personally, compared to other […]