Darcy McKinley Lester does not like baked beans and spaghetti on toast for breakfast, but she said that dish is hard to avoid when you study abroad in Australia. The Mechanicsburg, Pa., native studied at the Australian National University in Canberra last spring. Now a senior studying forest science, Lester wanted to travel to Australia [...]

Read More...

This inspiring interpretation of Carl Sagan’s iconic “Pale Blue Dot” speech was created as a Sheridan College final thesis project by illustration major Adam Winnik. I have always thought of Carl Sagan’s writings as “scientific poetry” since they lack the cold touch that science is often cursed for having. I think Sagan’s words resonate more [...]

Read More...

Courtesy of UBC – By Salina Marshall Katie O’Callaghan never imagined that her graduate studies in community and regional planning would involve police car chases. “It was exciting,” she says of riding in a squad car alongside officers. But the University of British Columbia student wasn’t in it for the action. Rather, she was interested [...]

Read More...

Courtesy of Penn State Live When you’re closely involved with something, it’s easy to take for granted how good it is. But for junior Veronica Pasi, spending 10 weeks last summer managing invasive plant species as part of a hands-on internship in Illinois’s Glacial Park provided a new appreciation for her Penn State education. A [...]

Read More...

By Cole Parnell : Graphic Designer Shift Into Green Energy Independence was a student ad campaign I created while enrolled at Santa Barbara City College. My professor Liz Russotti gave us the assignment with an objective of creating a full-scale ad campaign for a good cause. The assignment included print work, 2 social media sites, a [...]

Read More...

With rapidly declining natural environments comes new opportunity for the inhabitants of these ecologically endangered regions – capitalist opportunity. Granted that the majority of areas facing habitat loss are located away from the general public and therefore relatively unknown, theses sites are in serious danger of falling completely out of existence. There is however a [...]

Read More...

The manner in which people perceive their relationship with nature varies both by time and geographic location. In a temporal sense, the paradigm that a specific culture is asphyxiated with is most often a direct product of the socio-economic standards at that particular time. Shanghai wasn’t always skyrise hotels and mass produced everything – there [...]

Read More...

When you think of the trash problem in the ocean – the great garbage patch in the Pacific – what do you imagine? Like myself, I’m sure you envisioned something like the ocean’s surface covered with plastic coke bottles and six-pack rings. Unfortunately, the reality of this situation is far more complex. Plastic doesn’t particularly [...]

Read More...

Evan Litwin, graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, has written a paper that takes an intriguing and alarming look at the interrelationship between climate change, sea level rise, human migration and conflict in the Indo-Pacific region: a region that is spread out across thousands of islands, which are home to as many groups and [...]

Read More...

Environmentalism expressed through interactive art speaks volumes to me. As my senses expand with new feelings, sounds or visuals, I find myself more readily taking in ideas from all points of view – new, old, random and unique. Interactive multimedia is a growth area of communication for environmentalism. It can extend far beyond more traditional [...]

Read More...