ENVS 160 is not your ordinary science class. Rather than your typical lecture style high school class with labs consisting of fire and chemicals, ENVS 160 strongly focuses on many aspects of environmental theories and ideas. Over the course of the class, we focused on four major sections: Why We Disagree About Climate Change by Mike Hulme, Making The Modern […]
Don’t Just Believe in the Change, BE THE CHANGE
As an aspiring animal lawyer, all I think about is being that one crazy person who finally makes changes and moves mountains. My whole life I have been watching documentaries on Netflix or TV shows on channels such as Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel to further educate myself. I found myself looking to current law […]
Social Rules in a Nutshell
Who Rules the Earth in a nutshell In Who Rules the Earth?: How Social Rules Shape Our Planet and Our Lives, Paul F. Steinberg emphasizes the idea of social rules and how social rules are everywhere. Social rules and regulations are in fact a part of every aspect of our lives even if we may not notice them at […]
One Thought to the Next
Who Rules the Earth –> Austerity Ecology & The Collapse-Porn Addicts Who Rules the Earth by Paul F. Steinberg (2015) explains that social rules influence our understanding of what we believe is the truth. Steinberg (2015) writes, “When rules are routinely followed…we internalize them as habits, routines, and standard operating procedures” (Steinberg 2015, 12). Steinberg’s theory helps […]
How Much Do We REALLY Know?
Ever since I was a little girl, I was known as “the animal lover”. All I wanted in life was to be able to purchase every single animal on this planet and call them my own. As I grew older, I realized that my dream of becoming the world’s biggest animal freak was impossible. […]
Cosmopolitan: The Whole World in Their Hands
Definition Throughout the years, one of the biggest issues in acting against climate change is the disagreement among countries on what climate change is and how to go about solving the issue. One way to get around this issue is to abort the nationalistic view of today’s society and exchange it for a cosmopolitan […]
Lead in the Wrong Direction
By Jakob Riedal, Connor Schenk, Karli Uwaine and Heisman Hosoda An Overview of Lead Lead (Pb, atomic number 82) is a soft heavy dense metal that is low cost to extract and relatively abundant. The mineral is mainly found in ores usually combined with zinc and copper where the lead is extracted through a multi […]
Oregonian’s Perspective on the Importance of Climate Change
The First Step: Our team members are Karli Uwaine and Heisman Hosoda. The first step we performed in order to complete the survey was taking the Pio Shuttle into downtown Portland. Karli completed two surveys and Heisman completed one. The people that Karli interviewed (one male and one female) ranked the importance of climate change […]