With concrete walls, a slow stream, and visibly polluted water, the Los Angeles River looks like anything but a river. In fact, I grew up close to part of the LA River, yet it wasContinue reading
The Second Great Railroad Revolution by Aidan Floyd
With the COVID-19 stimulus package behind us, President Joseph R. Biden and his team will soon turn to the next greatest promise of his election campaign: repairing and innovating the crumbling infrastructure of United StatesContinue reading
Resiliency at Scale: Using Hydrogen to Solve Clean Energy Storage by Satchel Kostelnik
The largest challenge that we face in shifting towards clean power is resiliency: how do we meet energy demand at all hours of every day, given the somewhat unpredictable variability in natural sources like theContinue reading
10 Years Out: Have Plastic Straw Bans Saved the World Yet? by Caroline Kassir
I remember very clearly the sudden anti-plastic straw wave that swept the nation. Seemingly out of nowhere, anyone who was anyone was opting not to use plastic straws. I also remember the delicious sense ofContinue reading
Un“masking” the Issue: COVID-19 Pollution by Cassie Shriver
Phone, keys, wallet, mask. This modified mantra has pervaded our lives since the World Health Organization characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic in March of 2020,[1] with the United States Centers for Disease Control identifying properContinue reading
Using Florida to Show the Effects of Rising Sea Levels by Andrea Escobar
Beaches, Spring Break, and Disney World are all images that come to mind when you think of Florida. However, one that probably doesn’t come to mind is occasional floods that reach higher than the doorwaysContinue reading
COVID and Air Pollution
You can’t expect to have healthy people in a dirty environment.
Is the ‘Justice for Black Farmers’ Bill Enough Reparations for America’s Racist History? by Elizabeth Bambury
After the Civil War and the emancipation of slaves, the United States came close to giving reparations that could have resulted in significantly increasing generational wealth among Black Americans. The policy would have awarded 40Continue reading
How to Define COVID-19 as an Environmental Justice Problem
By Sarah Bond During President Obama’s administration, a senior White House official referred to climate change as Obama’s “stepchild,” because environmental policy was generally overlooked in favor of revisions to health policy.[1] Given the currentContinue reading
The Future of Food Waste: Organic Waste Bans by Michaela Reinhart
The world grows enough food for the 7.674 billion people in it. We simply lack the distribution system to get it to those who need it most, and nearly 40% of it goes wasted.[1] Continue reading