Introduction Environmental Studies 160 peels back the complicated and interdisciplinary layers that make up our world. As a student in this course one is not just learning about Global Warming from a scientific perspective, one is also learning from social and economic perspectives. The basis for investigating environmental theory from so many avenues is done […]
Practicing What You Preach
How will you practice, in your scholarly and personal life, what you have learned in ENVS 160? ENVS 16o has definitely been a turning point for me in my college education. Taking the class in conjunction with Psychology 100 has allowed me to discover why pursuing an Environmental Studies would not be right for me. […]
Karma for the Conquerors
An Analysis of Who Rules The Earth The author Paul Steinberg introduces Who Rules the Earth to the reader by discussing who bears the responsibility for confronting global warming. From the perspective of social science the reader is given a greater grasp of how individuals feel alone in tackling the overwhelming concept of global temperatures […]
Don’t Judge A Book By The Cover
Introduction Many of the texts we have read throughout the semester have posed different and opposing points that have allowed us as students to critically argue and tease apart complicated issues that the environment and climate change have presented. The three connections I have made use the texts Who Rules the Earth by Paul Steinberg, […]
What You See Is Not What You Should Believe
Introduction My favorite class my senior year of high school was AP Environmental Science. I’m not sure if it was because of the friends I made or the amount of information I learned about global warming. However, this had little impact on my decision to take the class. I had a fantasy in my head […]
Salt Makes The World Go Around
By Kat Chester, Tallie Steiner, and Eden Smith Overview What is this mineral? Where, in general, is it produced worldwide? Common salt is a mineral primarily consisting of sodium chloride. The broader category of salts, in chemistry terms, refers to an ionic compound that results from the neutralization of an acid and a base. In […]