Healing the Planet: One Small Step at a Time When I think of what I would save given the power to heal one thing on our Earth, I couldn’t imagine choosing a single issue. Every environmental issue carries so much weight on not only the lives of the people on…

The glowing afternoon sun ablaze in the sky above radiates a comforting warmth, heating my skin and setting my face aglow. As I slowly attempt to comprehend the vastness of the expanse presented to me, my once busy mind begins to settle into a different, quieter chaos. Overwhelmed by the…

Food, throughout generations carries an intense degree of culture and meaning. The foods we choose to eat frequently signify who we are as people, and where we come form in terms of culture. My grandfather, similar to the grandmother described in the introduction of Eating Animals by Joseph Enoch, had…

Every facet of human existence in the modern day is dominated by propaganda. From an increasingly young age, children are bombarded with advertisements and media meant to establish within them a system of beliefs centered around capitalism. These advertisements do not only stand to form the way children consume goods…

As a result of my previous look into the human tendency to create waste with no regard for the long-term environmental detriments that it may cause, I have begun to look into the products that I use in everyday life. It seems as though, just living as simply as possible…

DUMPSTER THRIVING The windows of my dorm building directly overlook the back alleys behind the shops that line Milton Avenue. Each and every day, my friends and I witness an incredible amount of food disposed by these businesses. This food waste comes as a direct product of tight cosmetic standards…

HOME IS WHERE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IDEOLOGY IS FORMED As my time at NAU has commenced, so has my journey to figure out what it is exactly that I believe. I was raised in Prescott, Arizona. This is a community composed of a predominately elderly and conservative population. In this environment…

CLIMATE ACTION: DOES METHODOLOGY MATTER? As we inch closer to the Global Climate Strike planned for Friday, September 20th 2019, the methods in which environmental communications are carried out become increasingly important. As climate scientists, activists, and concerned citizens alike rally around the common goal of saving the Earth from…

NATURAL LANDS: AMERICAN CATHEDRALS OR PROFIT OPPORTUNITIES? The ways in which humans treat nature directly correlates to their upbringings. The human environmental ideology is cultivated through different beliefs and value systems, the most common of which in religion. Although seemingly two separate facets of existence, religion and environmental concern go…