What exactly is the course ENVS 160 you might ask? It is a series of sections that each dive into important aspects of what getting a grasp on environmental studies might be. It’s about learning both the numerical and conceptual aspects to maintaining our beloved Earth and how we might go about helping it in […]
Teachings to Practice?
In this final post we sit here and ask ourselves, what the heck can we do with all of this information on environmental change and sustainability that we have learned throughout ENVS 160? How can we as individuals have a local, regional, and global impact? How can we teach others to think about the environment as […]
We Rule the Earth?
Who Rules the Earth by Paul Steinberg portrays that our climate is warming and our forests are being diminished. News with ecological crisis are extremely prevalent and seem to be the main focus as we look towards accomplishing sustainability by doing the little things like recycling and composting. While these are important steps, are they […]
Delve into the Deep
Post 1 was simply a poke at the vast ocean of connections and ideas that can come up in ENVS 160 and was a portrayal of how important those key topics can be. In this post, a synthesis can be made about those key topics learned and can be linked to texts used to create […]
How Has ENVS Changed Me?
In ENVS 160, we like to have sets of concrete terms that we can compare and contrast that aid us in understanding and analyzing what environmental studies are meant to actually “study”. There are many comparisons that have come up in class multiple times and are addressed in various readings throughout the course. In environmental […]
All Gold Everything
Trini Susuico Rachel Applebaum Ashley Aguiar Gold is Au on the periodic table and in it’s elemental form is a bright, slightly reddish yellow, dense, soft, and malleable metal. It is a transition metal, generally taking a hardened form, and is one of the least radioactive elements on the periodic table. It comes often in […]
I Want YOU To Think About Climate Change
Trini Susuico, Rachel Applebaum, Ashley Aguiar, Julia Chavez Procedure: Our mission was to find out how different people about how important climate change is to them on a scale from 1 to 10, one being the lowest importance and 10 being the highest importance. We walked around the streets of downtown Portland as well as […]