Designed for Waste: Planned Obsolescence
BY LINDSEY NGO (Credit to Ecospare) Planned obsolescence is a marketing strategy where products are intentionally designed to break down...
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Emma Simon
- Jan 18
- 6 min
Suburbia Is Destroying Our Climate — And Our Communities
BY EMMA SIMON In current discussions surrounding climate-friendly transportation, a frustrating amount of attention is given to electric...
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Finn Schwartz
- Jan 9
- 7 min
Living on Top of the World
By FINN SCHWARTZ After hiking an exhausting 10 miles with over 2000 feet in elevation gain, I finally found myself looking over the basin...
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Ethan Olson
- Jan 1
- 7 min
THE ROCK-DROP:
Harnessing an Indigenous Land Management Technique to Adapt to Climate Change in San Diego BY ETHAN OLSON INTRODUCTION The San Diego of...
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Alex Reep
- Dec 16, 2022
- 9 min
Atmospheric River Data: Key to Saving California’s Agricultural Sector
BY ALEX REEP California’s agricultural sector is reliant on the increasingly unpredictable mega-storms, called atmospheric rivers, that...
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Katie Babson
- Dec 8, 2022
- 5 min
ExxonMobil is Lying to You About Carbon Solutions
BY KATIE BABSON As the White House’s climate agenda faces severe backlash over contested budget resolutions, concerns regarding economic...
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Allison Gable
- Dec 6, 2022
- 6 min
Decolonization as Climate Justice: Deep-Sea Oil Drilling in Aotearoa New Zealand
BY ALLISON GABLE Despite worldwide resistance to fossil fuel extraction, not only are companies and governments failing to shut down...
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Roux Reilly
- Dec 3, 2022
- 6 min
Climate Change and Coastal Infrastructure: How Amtrak is proving to be a Case Study for the future
BY ROUX REILLY A little over a month ago, Amtrack’s Pacific Surfliner had to halt all trains traveling from Oceanside to Irvine due to...
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Anthony Ye
- Nov 30, 2022
- 5 min
Consumerism: Capitalism’s Climate Changing Child
BY ANTHONY YE In the past thousand years of human civilization, most people owned only a few pieces of clothing, maybe a couple toys, and...
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Chiara Fields
- Nov 16, 2022
- 4 min
I Wish This Didn’t Have to Be My Job
A short excerpt about growing up in the Climate Movement BY CHIARA FIELDS Every Monday and Wednesday, I help teach environmental science...
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Nicole Phelps
- Nov 15, 2022
- 5 min
San Diego Bike Lanes in Car-centric America
BY NICOLE PHELPS In 2018, I saved up and paid for my first car for $1900 off Facebook Marketplace. As a full-time student and part-time...
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Chiara Fields
- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
50 Years After “The Crying Indian” the Plastic Industry Still Prevails
BY CHIARA FIELDS In 1971, messaging about plastic pollution was turned on its head with the broadcasting of “The Crying Indian”...
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Anonymous Contributor
- Oct 31, 2022
- 4 min
Environmental Radicalism Through Ecotage
Derik Jensen, an American ecophilosopher asserts, “Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency... To hope for...
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Lindsey Ngo
- Oct 28, 2022
- 8 min
BENDING THE TRUTH: Examples of Media Manipulation Against Climate Change
BY LINDSEY NGO 1988 is widely agreed to be the year that scientists began to sound the alarm, agreeing that it was time for the...
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Eleanor Terner
- Oct 27, 2022
- 5 min
Interview with Alexander Weyant on Climate Models and Defining Causality
BY ELEANOR TERNER image source Alexander Weyant is a first year phD student of climate science at Scripps Institute of Oceanography who,...
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Daniel Sjoholm
- Oct 19, 2022
- 4 min
Flames: Three Climate Vignettes
BY DANIEL SJOHOLM 1. The heat was inescapable. "It is hot" was not a temporary statement about the weather, but rather a simple fact of...
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Wil Skaff
- Oct 17, 2022
- 6 min
Why the Parks in San Diego Represent Injustice
BY WIL SKAFF Chicano Park is located in one of San Diego’s most established Mexican neighborhoods, Logan Heights, and is situated under...
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Phoebe Skok
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
I’ll Drink Tea as the World Burns
An exploration of chronic pain and climate change.
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Ethan Olson
- Oct 7, 2022
- 6 min
The Climate Change Contradiction
Are the systems responsible for climate change a larger problem than climate change itself? BY ETHAN OLSON
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Daniel Sjoholm
- Sep 23, 2022
- 4 min
The Return of the Regents: The Climate Activists Strike Back
BY DANIEL SJOHOLM AND PHOEBE SKOK photos in article from Martin Hawks It was a clear fall morning at UC San Diego and tensions were...
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Chiara Fields
- Jun 15, 2022
- 4 min
Is the U.S. Prepared to Protect Climate Refugees?
BY CHIARA FIELDS Through his speech and highly restrictive refugee quotas, President Donald Trump succeeded in cultivating a racist and...
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Katie Babson
- May 31, 2022
- 5 min
NFTs and the Climate Controversy
BY KATIE BABSON NFTs have taken over the internet, serving as digital assets that offer creators and consumers unique opportunities...
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Ethan Olson
- May 17, 2022
- 2 min
We Fixed These Fossil Fuel Companies’ Climate Change Proclamations
Behind the greenwashed facades and misleading promises that the largest contributors to climate change are pushing lie one stone cold...
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Ethan Olson
- May 8, 2022
- 8 min
Let’s Go San Diego! An Interview with Dr. Cathy Gere about Getting Transit on the Ballot
BY ETHAN OLSON Cathy Gere is a professor of history of science in the UCSD history department, with a specialization in the history of...
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