Tag archives for politics
Do Carbon Credits Actually Offset Carbon Emissions? A Brief Look into the Carbon Credit Industry
Carbon credits are everywhere. From airlines to governments to clothing brands, entities are able to purchase carbon credits to offset their carbon emissions, often to meet climate goals or...
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...
Ocean Governance
Being from a small desert town in Death Valley, the ocean has always been an abstract concept to me, illusive and incredibly interesting. A while ago, all I knew...
A Spectrum of Green Politics
The Biden Administration’s recent approval of the Willow Project, an oil drilling project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, shocked and outraged progressives and environmentalists across the country. To some,...
War and the Environment: A Scorched Earth
It is commonly thought that war creates winners and losers. Either one emerges from the battlefield victorious and heroic or is left defeated, wounded, or dead. The nature of...
Voting for the Climate
How young people can generate progressive environmental action by participating in democracy. Young people today are constantly being confronted with news about climate change. It seems like there’s always...
Is it Ecologically Irresponsible to Have Children? A Personal Reflection
I am 20 years old. I am a soon to be senior in college, and I am going to have a BS in Environmental Science by the end of...
Even in a Pandemic, EPA Funding is Still Being Rolled Back
This Trump administration has yet again proven to be against policies and regulations that protect the environment. This month, the Environmental Protection Agency rolled out a series of temporary...