At What Cost?

There’s a scene in the popular NBC sitcom Parks & Recreation* where two of the main characters, Ben Wyatt and Leslie Knope, go for a hike. They stop over a ridge and admire a beautiful sunset. Ben remarks on the majesty of the scene, but Leslie reveals, “It’s pollution from the Sweetums factory. It’s…

Why Don’t We Talk About Algae?

Algae is in full bloom in more than a few places around the world, and yet it seems no one is talking…

It’s World Water Day, it’s 2017, and Flint Still Doesn’t Have Clean Water

Trump Proposes Further Budget Cuts

Donald Trump’s early months of presidency have stirred all kinds of emotions from both sides of our…

The American Landscape

When learning about American history one of the biggest artistic influences you will come across is the Hudson River School. Essentially, the Hudson River school was a collection of American landscape painters that sought to celebrate the American landscape and sever European influence on…

Strawless Ocean

Today I came across a movement that stuck me. It is called #StopSucking, and its goal is to eliminate plastic straws from our culture. In the U.S. alone, we use in excess of 500 MILLION plastic straws every single day. Naturally, many of these will end up polluting our ocean. It is predicted that by…

An Econ Fit for Caribbean Life

Cayo Santiago, also known as Isla de los monos (Monkey Island), is an island off the coast of Puerto…

Organic Madness

I see organic labels being slapped onto produce and meat products like wildfire. It seems like the food industry is meandering toward this ethic, one that people have shown they desired through their intensified desire for Whole Foods and farm-to-table restaurants. An old saying applies here: ‘If…