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A Sustainable Alternative To Fast Fashion
By Rose Atwood and Charley Quillian Clothing swaps are one of our community’s newest and most popular ways for people to engage with...
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Sai Debgupta
- Dec 7, 2022
- 3 min
Fungi Can Help Solve The Climate Crisis
Fungi are often overlooked. Mushrooms are food, their root-like mycelium is weird and clingy, and they’re a pain to remove once they...
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Keevan Kearns
- Dec 6, 2022
- 2 min
Rewriting the Narrative: Language and Our Relationship with the Natural World
During the shift from Native American control to British control over American land, the general ‘American relationship’ with the natural...
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Margaret Blomstrom
- Dec 5, 2022
- 2 min
Protest Art in the Climate Movement
"A picture can say a thousand words.” This platitude rings true in all art, but especially in protest art. Art is perfect for protest: it...
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Sadie Foer
- Nov 28, 2022
- 3 min
Care Work and Climate
During the COVID pandemic, nurses, in-home health aides, and teachers all came to the forefront of our national attention. Although these...
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- Jan 9, 2022
- 2 min
COP26 Provides a Pathway to Change, but the Future is Still Uncertain
By Naomi Borek and Laila Bapna On November 1, 2021, the annual United Nations Climate Change Conference began. After missing last year...
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- May 29, 2021
- 3 min
Australia's Black Summer
By Hana Sakr and Katherine Davies The Australian wildfires in the summer of 2020 were catastrophic. 27 million acres of land, an area...
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Keevan Kearns
- May 10, 2021
- 2 min
Climate Change is Worsening our Mental Health
As one of the most pressing and relevant issues today, the media is filled with information and controversies regarding climate change....
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Laith Weinberger
- May 10, 2021
- 5 min
The Widening Political Gap in the Climate Change Debate
In 2018, a grant to help television meteorologists educate viewers on climate change-related science when reporting weather was up for...
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Sadie Foer
- May 8, 2021
- 3 min
Mutual Aid is Critical for Climate Resiliency
When freezing, subzero temperatures hit a poorly prepared Texas, many people were left without heat, housing, food, and drinking water....
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Hana Sakr
- Jan 11, 2021
- 5 min
Female Scientists and Activists are Saving the World
2020 has been an extremely memorable year for women in the United States. It marks the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which...
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Hank Schwabacher
- Jan 5, 2021
- 4 min
What Exactly Is Biden’s Climate Plan?
One of the largest talking points in both the Democratic and Presidential debates was the climate. Biden was by no means the most radical...
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Sadie Foer
- Jan 5, 2021
- 4 min
Visions for our Education: Teach us to feel responsible and hopeful
I can remember the first time I learned about the concept of global warming. It was the fourth grade. I had finished my project early and...
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Keevan Kearns
- Jan 5, 2021
- 4 min
The Media’s Portrayal of Climate Change: Wealthy vs. Indigent Countries
By Keevan Kearns Between wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and heatwaves, climate change affects countries all around the world...
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Hana Sakr
- Jan 5, 2021
- 6 min
Can Tech Undo the Harm it's Caused?
By Hana Sakr Technology has evolved drastically over the course of the 21st Century. According to Our World Data, “The power and speed of...
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1.5 degrees
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Why We're here for Racial Justice (a note from the writers)
1.5 Degrees stands with Black Lives Matter. It should not take the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless...
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- Aug 24, 2020
- 4 min
Environmental Racism has left Communities of Color More Vulnerable to COVID-19
By Keevan Kearns As the coronavirus spreads, it is important to become aware of the global climate effects of the virus. The daily lives...
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1.5 degrees
- Aug 24, 2020
- 6 min
Hurricane Katrina: A Climate Justice Catastrophe
Hurricane Katrina left more than 1,800 people dead in its wake and destroyed or compromised over 800,000 housing units, leaving thousands ho
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- Jul 20, 2020
- 6 min
The Split in the Climate Movement
The climate movement as a whole is split into two groups: (1) the majority white, large-scale environmental organizations that receive the b
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1.5 degrees
- May 14, 2020
- 2 min
When Climate Wasn't Political
By Deepa Bhargava Since the 1950s, researchers and scientists had known fossil fuels were releasing greenhouse gasses into the...
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