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Let’s Prevent Food Waste: A Cooking Series – Applesauce
One of the easiest ways to use up some leftover apples is by making a childhood favorite food, applesauce! With 3 simple ingredients and a little bit of labor...
Food Waste: Issues and Prevention
The Big Picture Annually, around one-third of all food produced globally is either lost or wasted (United Nations). This is one-third of the world’s food supply that is thrown...
The Importance of Conservation: How the Wildlife Trade Caused a Pandemic
In December 2019, 66% of the 41 people first hospitalized with COVID-19 were traced back to passing through the same wet market (a market that sells live animals and...
Water Treatment in Developing Countries
Introduction It’s easy to take for granted the clean water we get everyday, but access to clean and safe drinking water is a major issue many people face today....
Endangered Species Conservation, The Right Way
Recently, endangered species conservation has been a hot topic due to the popularity of Netflix’s Tiger King documentary, which explores the world of big cat breeding and private zoos...
The Dark Side of Environmentalism: Ecofascism and COVID-19
COVID-19 is not the earth’s way of healing itself, and eradicating humans is not the answer to the globe restoring itself. Yes, there is less air pollution in China,...
Are you an Environmentalist?
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition of an “environmentalist” is “a person who is concerned with or advocates for the protection of the environment.” However, as the environmental...
Water Extraction and Cultural Impacts within the Mt. Shasta Watershed
Far too often do we hear about environmental injustices happening around the world, but this current issue regarding the cultural impacts in Mt. Shasta is happening very close to...
Hunger and Agriculture
To this day one of the biggest issues in developing countries is the continuous rise of hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition. Most people are under the assumption that with...
Working Remotely: The Future of Sustainability?
Spotify, Amazon, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Hitachi, Salesforce, Oracle, the list goes on. In recent weeks with the spread of COVID-19, many companies have transitioned to remote work models and...