Creating Climate Change Curriculum
BY KIDA Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels. Introduction The unwillingness of the education system to design a curriculum around the...
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- Feb 7
- 8 min
An Interview with UC San Diego's Sustainability Landscaper
Status-Driven Sustainability and Prospective Environmental Efforts on Campus BY GILLIAN RAMIREZ Artwork by Momei Fang UCSD is well-known...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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 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,...
- 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...
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
I’ll Drink Tea as the World Burns
An exploration of chronic pain and climate change.
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- May 5, 2022
- 5 min
Climate Justice Is Queer Liberation Is Climate Justice
Until we address the unique circumstances of the LGBTQ+ community, we will not achieve climate justice.
- Apr 27, 2022
- 1 min
Assigned at Birth
BY KYRA BLACK This piece was created as a part of the UCSD Eco-mmunity Zine project. If you are interested in seeing more students’ work...
- 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?
- 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 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...
- Feb 4, 2022
- 7 min
Ecofascism: Are We the Virus?
BY BERNS PIFFARD It has been over two years since a gunman in El Paso walked into a Walmart Supercenter with a semi-automatic rifle and...
- Feb 2, 2022
- 5 min
Does Good Faith in God Mean Bad Faith in Climate Change?
Does one's religious views influence their thoughts on climate change?
- Jan 26, 2022
- 3 min
Science Fiction of Climate Change: “Cli-Fi”
BY KATIE BABSON Photo by Andrew Amistad on Unsplash. The emerging genre “cli-fi” refers to the science fiction of climate change. It...
- 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 20, 2021
- 7 min
Grassroots Climate Action in Monteverde, Costa Rica: an interview with Katy VanDusen
BY ELEANOR TERNER In this interview, Katy VanDusen, a community-based climate activist located in Monteverde, Costa Rica, answers...
- Nov 30, 2021
- 4 min
Insects: The Meat Alternative of the Future?
BY BIANCA JUSSEN The first time I ate bugs was at a Oaxacan restaurant in San Jose, California. I ordered Taco de Chapulines- a taco with...
- Nov 28, 2021
- 6 min
Krill: The Disappearing Backbone of Marine Ecosystems
BY KARTHY SAJEEV Are we that close to krill-ing off biodiversity as we know it? Apparently so, because keystone species are feeling the...
- Nov 24, 2021
- 4 min
The Haunting Music of Climate Change
BY KATIE BABSON Climate change music evokes a spatial region between geography, activism, and the human imagination. It possesses the...
- Nov 15, 2021
- 4 min
Saving One of California's Last Coastal Wetlands
BY BERNS PIFFARD Workers attempt to stop the spread of oil in the Talbert Marsh on October 4, 2021. Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County...
- Nov 5, 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 26, 2021
- 7 min
Bjarke Ingels, I’m Tired of Your Eco-Porn
We Can’t Innovate Our Way Out of This. BY ETHAN OLSON Art by Momei Fang This is an article born out of rage, frustration, and...
- Oct 15, 2021
- 6 min
There’s No One Right Way to Be a Climate Activist
BY PHOEBE SKOK There is a pit looming in the bottom of my stomach. Some days, it grows. Rarely, it shrinks. Still, it is always there: a...
- 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 13, 2021
- 21 min
“Look Around. We Are an Emblem of Change.”
An Interview with Organizers from the Green New Deal at UCSD’s Recent Climate Justice and Action Rally BY ETHAN OLSON Blanca Lozano...
- 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....
- Sep 18, 2021
- 5 min
So You’re an Environmentalist, Then?
The Interdisciplinary Nature of the Climate Crisis
BY ETHAN OLSON
About a year ago, I was talking to someone I had just met and mentioned my
- Sep 13, 2021
- 3 min
Are Eco-Fairs Eco-Friendly?
A Closer Look at Two of San Diego’s Popular Environmental-Themed Events
BY LEORAH GAVIDOR
Eco-fairs and sustainability events are a popular
- 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
- May 5, 2021
- 5 min
UC San Diego to Host Climate Education Summit:
A Conversation with Dr. Nan Renner, Senior Director of Learning Design and Innovation for Birch Aquarium at Scripps BY EMILY ZOU
- Apr 30, 2021
- 6 min
INTERVIEW WITH VERONIKA MICHELS (CALPIRG): STUDENT ACTIVISM TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE
BY VEER SHAH
Veronika Michels is an alumna from UC San Diego and graduated in 2019 with a degree in Physiology and Neuroscience. She joined
- 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 20, 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 9, 2021
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Until the Fog Lifts: The Uneasy History of Former Scripps' Director, William Nierenberg
BY EMILY ZOU
“These problems can also be so important that they should not be avoided or ignored until the fog lifts. We simply must learn
- Apr 8, 2021
- 5 min
The Psychology of Climate Change
Professor Adam Aron talks about why we’re not all doing something about it right now
BY LEORAH GAVIDOR
- Mar 28, 2021
- 5 min
The Latest on the Green New Deal and Getting off the Gas
Activist and Professor Adam Aron on what you can do now
BY LEORAH GAVIDOR
Adam Aron is a psychology professor at UC San Diego, and he is als
- Mar 17, 2021
- 15 min
Professor Puritty: Unfiltered Thoughts on Fighting Climate Change (and Gardening)
BY ELIANA BLACHMAN AND OLGA KURILINA
We interviewed UC San Diego’s Professor Chandler Puritty, our former Environmental Studies teacher, to
- Mar 15, 2021
- 4 min
Wasteland Imagination
BY EMILY ZOU
This past quarter, I studied under Dr. Andrew deWaard, who led a special studies class in communications. He is writing a book
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
Why Carbon Offsets Won’t Cut It: Misleading Terms in Climate Change Conversations
BY AMBERLY CLARK Carbon neutral! Fossil free! Sustainable! Buzz words like these and many others are constantly thrown around and misused by
- Mar 9, 2021
- 8 min
Interview: Indigenous Communities on Climate Change
BY ANUSHA GOSWAMI
Kathryn Walkiewicz, Assistant Professor of English Literature and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, received her Ph.D. in E
- Mar 3, 2021
- 3 min
The Algorithm: A Driver for Climate Change Polarization
BY SOPHIA HIDALGO
In this digital age, social media is the driving force in the way individuals perceive the outside world. It’s a bottomles
- Feb 15, 2021
- 5 min
How Philosophy Can Help Us Solve Climate Change
BY CAROLINE HADLEY
For this interview, I spoke to Andy Lamey, a professor, author, and director of the undergraduate philosophy program at
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