When we discussed the concept of “local” in relation to french fries and Burgerville, I realized how incredible impossible it is to be completely “local.” Just in the room I am sitting in, I can’t see anything that I would in any way consider “local.” Shoes from Germany, a water bottle purchased in Idaho, chairs […]

Privilege. I remember the first time my mother told me to never, ever, ever drink bottled water- I was a sophomore in high school and Take Back the Tap was going viral, especially amongst environmentalist circles. I never really drank bottled water growing up, since we had a nice BRITA filter on our tap and […]

My mother was arrested in 1978, protesting the Diablo Canyon nuclear site in Northern California. She worked for the Snake River Alliance, “Idaho’s Nuclear Watchdog” in the 1990s, and traveled to the Soviet Union in 1990 to protest nuclear armaments. I grew up with a poster that said “Disarmament for a Safer World for our […]

As we delve into the second half of our text and begin to think about how deceivingly simple objects are connected to much of the theory that we learned about in previous weeks, I find myself uncontrollably excited about our individual situated projects. I am researching Grand Coulee Dam and situating it in a historical […]