Dr. Laura Stachel went to Northern Nigeria in 2008, as part of her graduate study.  She wanted to find ways to lower maternal mortality in the state-run hospitals.  She was appalled by how electricity outages threatened maternity and surgical care. Nighttime deliveries were performed in near darkness and cesarean sections had to either be cancelled [...]

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A short unhappy life – The baby calf starts in a free range grazing environment until it is about 6 months old. It is then transported to a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) where it will live the rest of its life – probably another 7 months. Here the steer will be fed a grain [...]

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Lately I have realized that I’m even more concerned than I was before. I am talking about our bodies – how to protect ourselves from harmful chemicals in the environment. Is this even still possible? My professor in the Global Conversation Course, points out that nothing can be dealt with in isolation, issues are interconnected. [...]

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I have recently developed a burning desire to get more in touch with the California terrestrial landscape and learn how to work with soil – in particular to grow organically and clean up food systems. To fulfill that desire, I spent time at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) in the beginning of September [...]

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New York University’s Studio 20 is a master’s level, project based journalism course which integrates investigative reporting with new media. In collaboration with the independent, non-profit newsroom, ProPublica, a group of these NYU Studio students recently created a catchy music video to support ProPublica’s three-year investigation on hydraulic fracturing – “fracking” – and its potential [...]

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In the US, May is National Bike Month. Tweet

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Global Warming: Science or Sensation? Feeling Warm Makes People More Likely to Believe University of California, Berkeley – Haas School of Business The debate over the veracity of global warming may be judged not by pure science but rather, perception. Being in a warm room can make the idea of global warming seem more likely, [...]

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A 2009 Carnegie Mellon University study, Diet Choices Can Help Environment, found that by eliminating meat from our diet just one day a week, we would reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to driving 1,000 miles less per year. Going vegan, the study estimates, would be equal to driving 8,000 miles less per year. Last fall [...]

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6 Lessons the Climate Movement Can Learn from Dr. King’s Legacy It’s Getting Hot in Here – Ethan Nuss Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Smoke and Mirrors Inside Higher Ed Over the past few years, as the [...]

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