To Consume or not to Consume: Tap Water on Campus

With uncertainty and unverified information spreading around campus, the Sustainability Committee decided to find out how safe our water is. Is it really safe to drink from our taps? Why is it environmentally important to limit single use plastics?

COP25: Our Climate Change Wishlist

What is at stake at the climate change conference COP 25 as it continues in Madrid, and what is going to determine its successes or failures?

Oceania: Climate Inequity in Practice

Oceania makes a good analogy for the rest of the world. It is extremely unfair that the richer countries whose actions led to climate change, will leave the poorer ones to adapt to its consequences.

The Montreal Protocol: What can we learn?

International agreements have the power to shape our planet on an unprecedented scale, and the Montreal Protocol proves this. Does the solution to the climate crisis lay in using it as a model to drive political change?

Environmentalism and Guilt: Are We Justified in Judging Individuals?

Overly critical statements about individual habits often dominate discourse about the environment and get in the way of making real progress.

Against The Tide: How Small Environmental Groups Can Bring About Big Change

Small environmental groups may seem like they can’t achieve much, but through the fostering of a great team ethic and deep personal relationships with the communities they work in, they can be effective agents for change.

The Problem with Today’s Environmentalism

Environmentalism shouldn’t be a movement. It should be as timeless, long term and undisputed as education and social welfare.