Environmental Health Perspectives

The industrial revolution causes the environmental crisis and it affects humanity deeply and irreversibly. There is no doubt that this brings back religion in a new form which is supposed to give answers to those questions that technology cannot answer. How could the spirituality of deep ecology help the environmental movement? Religion has faith which serves for answering all of the questions which cannot be tackled by technology…

Zoroastrian. And by high school, my interest in the stories of the world became an interest in the history of the world. What is history if not the story of humanity? What is history if not the story of us? I matured under the guidance of my environmental science teacher. He showed me the innumerable problems that our world is facing, and taught me how to look for solutions. From that moment on, I found my drive. My passion is to understand the world, my goal is to change it. I began…

“Environmental impact” is a traveling exhibition that is currently on display in SUNY Potsdam’s very own Gibson galley. The exhibition uses sculptures, paintings, and photographs to explore the current issues facing our ever changing environment. While each artist uses various visual and design techniques to get their points across there are still many pieces in the gallery that share many similarities with one another. Edward Burtynsky’s photograph Highway #1, Intersection 105 & 110 made in…

There are many factors which do affect the growth of nails, but five main important aspects are, age, location on body, hormones, cutting and health. One of the big aspects of the growth of nails would have to be Age, considering we get older every year. Infant nails tend to grow slower than adult nails, although, young children nails grow faster than that of an adult. The Location of the nail depends on the growth, in saying that, fingernails grow much faster than toenails, the difference in…

Go Green is a new catchphrase and phenomenon which aspires to raise environmental consciousness. Environmental awareness is a broad term including global warming, pollution, clean accessible water, organic foods, animal protection, and reforestation. Today’s environmental movement encompasses many ideas and concerns, but the modern environmental movement originated in the 1960s with one particular issue: pesticides. Rachel Carson, a biologist, raised American consciousness about pesticides with…

Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies endeavors to answer a simple but vastly complicated question of how did certain people develop useful items, or “cargo” as Yali, the man who asked the original question, worded it, while other people did not. According to Diamond, while the developments immediately preceding interaction among groups of people is what decides the outcomes of the interactions, it 's where the people come from, their environment, that…

we use to describe the learning that occurs in environmental education settings when the learning is largely under the choice and control of the learner - most casual visitors who do not…

The environment is a broad category and is intertwined in a complex relationship with human interactions that depict and impact the current environmental state; some for the better and some for the worse. It is important to understand the human relations and social struggle that we as individuals face in order to apprehend how it affects the environment. Ayiko Soloman, a Wilfrid Laurier graduate, spend a fair amount of years providing humanitarian support and aid to people in Uganda and has…

The car makes a sharp turn into the mass of greenery, greeting an image torn right off the pages of a fiction novel. Fairytale houses are woven within the trees, dappled sunlight tinting their roofs, and a dirt trail winds down to a dreamy fishing pond and a farm populated with llamas, donkeys, rabbits, and sheep. The air tastes crisp. The warm sun draws families out: parents chat with neighbors over ice tea as their children bounce along the community trampoline, and an aged couple saunters…

Environmental Education & Sustainability in Schools Many school districts are debating whether or not to include some form of environmental education in their curriculum. Environmental education not only benefits student health and knowledge, but encourages them to develop into citizens who are prepared to make a positive impact in local and global communities. According to the United Stated Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Environmental education is a process that allows individuals…