At the intersection of climate change and public health lies food security, and once political and social climates are taken into account, food security reveals itself to be an issue of justice and women’s empowerment.Continue reading
The United States Needs a Market-Based Climate Mitigation Strategy
The United States government should legislate and enforce a market-based climate mitigation strategy. The strategies I recommend are either cap-and-trade or a carbon tax and dividend. The goal of both systems is to reduce greenhouseContinue reading
Extinction
We need to preserve the heritage of species on all corners of the Earth.
Continue Aggressive Air Pollution Reduction
In 1948, a small town disaster suddenly brought a silent killer loudly onto the national scene. A zinc plant had emitted enough toxic smoke to kill twenty residents of Donora, Pennsylvania[1]. Air quality in theContinue reading
Water Access and Social Justice in the United States
What do you do when you don’t have any water to wash, cook, or clean with? Fifteen million Americans faced that problem in 2016 when they fell behind on their water bills and had theirContinue reading
Managing Melting Permafrost: Protecting communities and ecosystems
For years, the town of Iñupiat town of Shishmaref, located on a small barrier island off the coast of the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska, faced severe erosion, sometimes losing large areas of land toContinue reading
Earth Day + 49
The studies of DDT suggest that we should be skeptical of new endocrine-like compounds that are offered to improve our daily life.
Plastic Straws and Sea Turtles
I spent my summers in high school working as a Sea Turtle Camp Counselor for the Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s children’s camp in Jupiter, Florida. The Loggerhead Marinelife Center is a sea turtle hospital. There, staffContinue reading
The case for state solar feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) in the USA
The importance of solar energy Solar energy is the fastest growing source of energy, but we need more policy incentives to encourage growth. The world’s solar energy capacity from rooftop panels and solar parks grewContinue reading
The Legacy of Earth Day
The teal waters ran black as oil seeped its way into the sand and coated the kelp forests. A hundred thousand gallons of oil covered the beaches and ocean– soon to be one of manyContinue reading