Category: ESC

Anne Martin
March 23, 2016October 24, 2016 Anne Martinalumni, climate, conservation, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, sustainability

The Fate of Pollinators

Food production around the world faces a major threat: the disappearance of pollinator species. Why, rather than shrinking at the possibility of a multi-faceted problem, we have not responded with multifaceted solutions?

Anne Martin
March 21, 2016October 24, 2016 Anne Martinalumni, climate, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC

Label It, Please

If we are going to continue to be able to grow food on this planet, then we need to begin paying attention to nature once again—relearning how to mimic her in order to provide for future generations.

Anne Martin
March 4, 2016October 24, 2016 Anne Martinalumni, climate, conservation, ESC, sustainability, travel, water

A Fight for the Seas

I love these waters that are beginning to feel like home. They are untamable and unforgiving and beautiful and wild.

And I know that the sea carries out punishments to those who do not respect the signs–to those who fail to read her. There is no tolerance of those who fail to take a long careful look at the horizon, or for a species that satiates life giving waters with chemicals and trash and unconscious behavior.

Anne Martin
March 2, 2016October 24, 2016 Anne Martinalumni, climate, conservation, environmental economics, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC

Immediate Action Needed: Global Environmental Challenges in Costa Rica

Commercial fishing is not the only “big industry” ripping apart Costa Rica socially, economically, and environmentally. Industrial-sized monoculture farming, imposed by several politically powerful global companies, is swiftly destroying the land and wrecking havoc on the health of the local people as well.

Anne Martin
February 15, 2016October 24, 2016 Anne Martinalumni, climate, conservation, energy, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC, sustainability, travel

Protect Our Forests

These are the grim long-term consequences of our present day inaction.

Anne Martin
February 1, 2016October 24, 2016 Anne Martinalumni, environmental policy, ESC, water

Chemical Safety: A Wake Up Call

No one should have to die for common sense policy to be put into place. But they already have. Now it is up to the rest of us to take a stand.

Anne Martin
January 29, 2016October 24, 2016 Anne Martinclimate, conservation, environmental health, environmental policy, ESC

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There was an National Geographic article recently published highlighting the emergence of new scientific evidence supporting what I think most of us have known all along: nature is good for us.