The Supreme Court and the Future of Climate Legislation
BY KATIE BABSON In a landmark decision, the United States Supreme Court announced its 6–3 ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental...
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- Jan 23
- 4 min
Designed for Waste: Planned Obsolescence
BY LINDSEY NG Photo by Erik Mclean on Unsplash. Planned obsolescence is a marketing strategy where products are intentionally designed to...
- 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...
- 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...
- Dec 9, 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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”...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- May 3, 2022
- 4 min
San Diego’s First Zero Waste Grocery Store
BY LEORAH GAVIDOR Isabelle DeMillan, Owner / Founder of The Mighty Bin It’s called the Mighty Bin, and it’s the first store in San Diego...
- Apr 6, 2022
- 6 min
Can Eating Animal Products Ever Be Morally Justified?
Is consuming animal products morally wrong when we know the harm it causes to animals and the environment?
- Mar 21, 2022
- 6 min
Coral Reefs Could Be the Next Major Casualty in the Fight against Climate Change
BY BIANCA JUSSEN Imagine a fantastical scenario where we press a button and terminate all anthropogenic causes of greenhouse gas...
- Mar 7, 2022
- 4 min
Can You Really Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is When It Comes to the Climate Crisis?
BY CHIARA FIELDS We’re often taught that we, as individual consumers, can positively affect climate change by choosing to purchase...
- Feb 26, 2022
- 3 min
Coral Reefs: Media’s Negligence in Covering (some) Major Environmental Issues
BY ANASTASSIA ROBERTS Nemo lived in a beautiful home, didn’t he? Anemone was considered shelter, neighboring fish were deemed friends,...
- Feb 21, 2022
- 4 min
The Cost of Conservative Fossil Fuel Think Tanks
Fossil fuel think tanks rely on climate doubt to perpetuate messages of pro-fossil fuels by attacking climate science.
- Feb 18, 2022
- 5 min
Maybe There Isn’t Anything Wrong with Nimbys
BY BERNS PIFFARD Scottish demonstrators protest plans for a new wind farm development It is very clear we need to increase the...
- Feb 17, 2022
- 4 min
The American Car Problem
BY ANTHONY YE A freeway interchange in Phoenix, Arizona When I lived in China, especially around the more prominent cities, you could do...
- Feb 11, 2022
- 4 min
Are Tech Billionaires Ruining Our Chances at Combating Climate Change?
BY DANIEL SJOHOLM File photo of a New Shepard launch in 2019. Credit: Blue Origin For as long as humans have existed, we've dreamed of...
- Jan 24, 2022
- 8 min
Moving on from Eating Meat
BY ADIKA WITOELAR Meat, specifically red meat, is continuing to rise in demand as the years go by, especially in high-growth developing...
- Jan 17, 2022
- 6 min
Going Green is Going Nowhere
BY KAMILA PERLA Brought to you by the AS Office of Environmental Justice Affairs The movement towards a greener earth has prompted change...
- Jan 14, 2022
- 7 min
Solarpunk: The Power of an Aesthetic
BY ETHAN OLSON Art by Jessica Kamman Imagine a city of the future. Are there flying cars, cities with buildings taller than mountains,...
- Jan 5, 2022
- 7 min
Coming Clean: A Demand for a Fossil Free UC
In 2013, the UC system announced their goal to become carbon-neutral by 2025. Dive deep into the key issues of the Carbon Neutrality Plan.
- Dec 2, 2021
- 3 min
San Diego Seeks Input on Climate Resilience Plan
Residents Are Already Suffering the Effects of Climate Change BY LEORAH GAVIDOR The City of San Diego is seeking input on its climate...
- Nov 10, 2021
- 4 min
A Future without Cars
BY DANIEL SJOHOLM Every day, scores of American teens celebrate their 16th birthdays, and, like clockwork, head off to the DMV in hopes...
- Nov 8, 2021
- 4 min
We Are in the Middle of a Sixth Mass Extinction
BY PEYTON DULAY People have heard the stories about dinosaurs and how they went extinct, but what many don’t know is that there is a...
- Nov 6, 2021
- 5 min
A Call for Nuclear Energy
BY ANTHONY YE Nuclear Energy: for some that word may strike fear, for some it is a confusing and indifferent topic, and yet for many...
- Oct 29, 2021
- 5 min
Our Hungry Planet: Climate Change and Food Security
Curious about the relationship between climate change and food security?
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- Oct 27, 2021
- 4 min
Jakarta Sinking
BY ADIKA WITOELAR The global sea level has risen, on average, by 3.6 millimeters per year from 2006-2015, more than double the average...
- Oct 14, 2021
- 5 min
UC Says It’ll Meet 2025 Carbon Neutral Goal, Yet Remains a Massive California Polluter
BY CATHY GERE AND ADAM ARON UCLA's cogeneration facility, pictured to the left, runs off of methane gas. Despite plans to achieve what...
- Oct 6, 2021
- 5 min
The California Climate Crisis Act Is Still in Limbo
BY LEORAH GAVIDOR California is supposed to be leading the nation in climate change mitigation, backed by effective legislation and...
- Sep 30, 2021
- 4 min
Fossil Fuels are Lying to You About Recycling
BY KATIE BABSON Art by Kyra Black Since elementary school, we are taught that recycling is a core tenant of reducing wasteful plastic....
- Aug 5, 2021
- 2 min
Electrifying UCSD: A Campus Electrification Scenario and Cost Estimate
BY ALEX ANDRIATIS UCSD’s problematic reliance on carbon offsets to meet its goal of carbon neutrality by 2025 has been widely documented by
- Jul 13, 2021
- 8 min
Climate Change Narratives
BY KIDA BRADLEY
When I tell my children about what climate change is, I am not sure how I could thoroughly explain it. Climate change is an
- Jun 14, 2021
- 5 min
The Need for Seaweed
Why seaweed aquaculture is the solution to copious environmental, health, and socioeconomic problems caused by ocean acidification and great
- Jun 2, 2021
- 7 min
Interview with Mark Jacobson on the Clean Energy Transition
CONDUCTED BY ADAM ARON ON MAY 24, 2021 Mark Jacobson is a Professor at Stanford. He has written several books and co-authored over one hundr
- May 31, 2021
- 6 min
The Environmental Impact of the Fishing Industry
BY SARA BERMAN Fish is one of the most popular forms of animal protein, with over 3.2 billion people relying on it as 20% of their protein i
- May 27, 2021
- 5 min
Walkability and Climate Change
BY ETHAN OLSON
How do we get to a world where temperatures do not rise 2°C past pre-industrial levels?
We walk.
- May 14, 2021
- 6 min
What about the Lithium?
BY ALEX ANDRIATIS A common challenge to calls for electrification is to point out the “hidden” negative impact, both environmental and socia
- May 12, 2021
- 4 min
Book Review: How To Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates
BY AVANTIKA GOYAL When discussing the problem of climate change, many advocates argue that it's the billionaires and capitalists who've led
- May 10, 2021
- 3 min
Washington State Passes Senate Bill for Clean Cars 2030
BY KATIE BABSON Washington state legislature has passed a bill titled Clean Cars 2030. This bill seeks to set a goal requiring all light-dut
- May 6, 2021
- 4 min
The Problems with Palm Oil
BY AMBERLY CLARK What do cereal, soap and ice cream all have in common? Chances are, they contain palm oil. These two words seem trivial eno
- Apr 27, 2021
- 5 min
Please, Don't Take A Cruise This Summer
BY SABINA GRIEBEL As temperatures warm and vaccines pierce arms, many are looking toward Summer 2021. With the implementation of vaccine pa
- Apr 23, 2021
- 5 min
Looking Back on Kyoto: Leaving Developing Countries Out of Climate Change Agreements
BY ETHAN OLSON Over two decades ago, world leaders met in Kyoto, Japan to create an international agreement for mitigating climate
- Apr 21, 2021
- 8 min
An Interview with Professor Fonna Forman: Why Global Challenges Require Local Solutions
BY OLGA KURILINA AND ELIANA BLACHMAN Professor Fonna Forman is a professor of Political Science and the founding Director of the Center on G
- Apr 19, 2021
- 2 min
The San Diego Climate Equity Fund
BY LEORAH GAVIDOR
It’s just a drop in the bucket: San Diego’s new $5 million Climate Equity Fund, which the city council approved in March,
- Apr 14, 2021
- 1 min
Political Economic Paradigms for a Sustainable Future
BY MARC CAMANAG
As denoted by our civilization's collective history and countless discourses on climate change, capitalism has played a rel
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