Tag archives for carbon emissions
An Introduction to Star Route Farms
Founded in 1974 and purchased by the University of San Francisco in 2017, Star Route Farms is the oldest continuously certified organic row crop farm in the state of...
What Exactly is Carbon Neutrality?
The Importance of Being Carbon Neutral in a Time of Climate Change In a time of climate change, when sea levels are rising, biodiversity is declining, and extreme weather...
Public Transportation Weighed Against Personal Vehicles
The United States is the third largest country by land mass, preceded only by countries with large areas of harsh tundra: Russia and Canada (Sauders, 2023). Public transportation is...
The Cost of Streaming: Data Centers and Their Environmental Impact
Although people are becoming increasingly aware of the environmental impacts of the energy that they use, many still remain ignorant of the energy that is used to power the...
Fleet Week: A Tragedy of the Commons
For one week every year, a series of giant ships and submarines parade into the San Francisco Bay, San Francisco’s skies crowd with dozens of zooming jets, and an...
Overconsumption, not Overpopulation: Debunking the Overpopulation Myth and Eco-Fascism
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, as hundreds of thousands of people passed away from the virus, statements such as, “Mother Earth is cleansing herself,” or “The earth will be better...