Annie Leonard

Our society today has come to believe that we can not survive without materials and possessions. Motivation for life has become to possess expensive items, things of no real value, but for some reason, they complete human beings. This materialistic society is demonstrated in the novel, Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk is showing how society has become obsessed with material things. Tyler Durden, one of the main characters in the novel, believes that we are a society that has been built from…

not make us realize that other people need clothes. It is a disgrace when we go grocery shopping we buy so much food that is just going to get tossed in the trash a couple days later. In the article “How to be more than a mindful consumer” by Annie Leonard says “Today we’re so steeped in consumer culture that we head to the mall even when our houses and garages are full. We suffer angst over the adequacy of our belongings and amass crushing credit card debt to, as the author Dave Ramsey says,…

To what extent can humans change to contribute and preserve the environment? Pollution, landfill, chemical waste, climate change, and natural disasters are only a few examples of the consequences we have created due to our linear economical model not being compatible with the environmental cyclical cycle. So what are the problems and how are we contributing to them in the first place? What might be some of the things we can do in order to better our situation? Lastly, if the environmental…

The readers have to listen carefully to be able to hear the greatness of Edgar Allan Poe. He puts words into life to really be able to understand how great each line is. The poem is acquainted with the choices of heaven or hell throughout each line and expresses how in depth Edgar must go to represent the decision. In the poem, Poe uses a decaying and haunted mansion as a chilling metaphor for the big decision. Reading this story can leave one confused or in chill bumps depending on how the…

Today’s society in the United States is a technological paradise where answers can be found in the blink of an eye on a smart phone and trips across the world can be made in a matter of hours. Innovations and constant breakthroughs have made people smarter and more efficient but, consequently, have also made the nation, as a whole, distracted. With on-going industrialization, the environment has taken an abrupt turn for the worst. The solution for the past few decades has been to “go green.”…

Bill Nye said, “Climate change is happening, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.” Bill Nye is a mechanical engineer, who is most known for being the face of the educational program, Bill Nye the Science Guy. He has become one of the most popular figures in the science community. In his quote, Nye is talking about climate change, which is a change in global or regional climate patterns such as a change in temperature of a region. Climate change is one of…