When entering ENVS 160 know that it is not going to be anything like your AP environmental science class. This class will open you up to different ways of thinking about environmental issues and will likely challenge your current held beliefs. ENVS 160 is more focused on thinking about the world around us and less […]
What’s Next?
Part of the reason why I took ENVS 160 is because I am very passionate about making real environmental and ecological change because in my opinion that is the one issue that we cannot ignore. We can talk all day about other issues like race or class, but at the […]
Who Rules The Earth? A guide to real change.
I’ve always wondered what the best possible solution to solving our environmental and ecological crisis is? There is a lot of talk, promises, and small things being done that don’t seem to have the effect we want. Even so I have remained optimistic and books like Who Rules the Earth fuel that optimism. This book […]
Drawing together important connections in environmental science
I have learned a lot from the Environmental Science 160 class and it has opened me up to ways of thinking about the environment that I had once never considered. Although all our readings focuses on different aspects of the environment there were many ways in which they had connecting themes and lessons to think […]
An unexpected take on the environment
When I entered the intro to environmental science course, I was expecting an even more in depth study of what I learned in AP environmental science and possibly some new facts that I didn’t know about. I was surprised to find out that this was a very different take on the subject at hand that […]