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The Border Crisis Nobody is Talking About: Declaring Pollution in the Tijuana River Valley as a National Emergency
A binational environmental disaster is occuring at the United States-Mexico border between San Diego and Tijuana, and the elected and public officials representing these areas are scrambling to address...
A Look at AMOC, Climate News, and Eco-Anxiety
In this time of climate crisis, there are important environmental events unfolding every day. While it is certainly important to be informed about what is going on with the...
The Salton Sea Story: The beautiful lake that exists despite itself in a desert, and how it affects us all
Images taken by Debbie Bentley From her website: “Her work documenting the Salton Sea in Imperial County, California, was the subject of the monograph Salton Sea: of Dust and...
The Environmental Hazards of Mass Incarceration
Today, almost two million people are held in American jails, prisons, and detention centers, which is more than double the population of San Francisco. Tough-on-crime policies, emblematic of the...
The Importance of Celebrity Responsibility in the Realm of Sustainability
Regardless of how you feel about her, one thing’s for sure: everyone is talking about Taylor Swift. From her worldwide Era’s Tour to her presence in the National Football...
Legalizing Psychedelic – Assisted Therapy in San Francisco
The Bay Area is no stranger to psychedelics. San Francisco became a famous hub for the recreational consumption of hallucinogens during the Summer of Love in 1967, which is...
The Impact Of A Fast Paced Food World
Factory farming has quickly become one of the most prevalent food production methods of all time, primarily due to its cost and efficiency of delivering food to such a...
Environmental Justice through Art
Though environmental activism and sustainability are becoming a bigger part of the global cultural consciousness, environmental justice is a less discussed, though extremely important, subsect of environmental activism. Environmental...
Toward Ethical Consumption: The Case Against Industrial Animal Agriculture
The animal agriculture industry has integrated itself in modern day society. We have this industry to thank for the affordable and readily available animal based products in our grocery...
Befriending San Francisco’s Urban Forest
Do you too find peace beneath the trees? Do you seek comfort under canopies of green? Maybe you’re also a friend of the forest around us. If you consider...