Environmental social science

community trampoline, and an aged couple saunters along the sidewalk, pulled onward by their two corgis. In a modern world where adults and children alike suffer from a lack of exposure to nature, Serenbe is a successful experiment of what a healthy and social community should be. With urban and rural…

Each year thousands of students go off to college for their fist time. They are filled with excitement to start a new chapter in their life but many forget the importance of eating healthy. In several universities they offer different eating options for their students unfortunately here at saint josephs college there is a lack of healthy options for students. When you walk into the cafeteria you will notice that there is only one healthy food option for students. The rest of it is all greasy…

that it is beginning to threaten our quality of life. It is time to sit up and take notice. So where does the problem lie? If not with the construction process or the free market approach, then where? As with so many environmental matters, it lies in the yawning…

Environmental justice differentiates itself from the general term of environmentalism in that it fights for environment equality for people of minority races and low socio-economic status. While the environmental justice movement began in the 1960’s in the US parallel to the civil rights movement, it attracted enormous attention in the 1990’s due to Robert Bullard’s book “Dumping In Dixie” which highlighted evidence of discrimination in locations chosen for toxic waste dumps in the US (Carder, E…

Comprehension: What is involuntary experimentation and give 2-3 examples of how Black people were subjected to multiple forms of involuntary experimentation, both during slavery and after. Golash-Boza writes, “Sims repeatedly sewed up Anarcha’s vagina, yet it became infected every time and he had to painfully reopen the wounds. sim knew about anesthesia but refused to administer it to Anarcha or to the tend other women … Rather than treating the men for syphilis, the PHS doctors used the study…

world and even elementary school classrooms. A great deal of these strategies rely on multidisciplinary approaches, for example, when Nisbet writes about higher education role in the Anthropocene, he discusses a number of ways that Humanities and Sciences can be combined to create immersive and cooperative degree programs. Programs such as these are already being implemented universities such as Oregon State and Kings College in London (Hart, Nisbet & Myers, 2015). These programs create dynamic…

The Stain of Sustainability Sustainability is discussed in “Attention Whole Food Shoppers” by Robert Paarlberg and “Sustainability by Christian R Weisser. Christian R Weisser speaks more about the idea of what sustainability is and how is important for society to be aware of it. Robert Paarlberg explains in his article the way the Earth is more and less sustainable because of everyone 's actions around the world. Both articles touch on the ideas that there are people out there helping change…

their attitudes towards the environment. In the excerpt Carson advocates for the ban of parathion by describing the farmers’ use for the poison as warlike, by faulting the ignorant public, and the negligent government for the poison’s harmful environmental impact on afflicted areas. Carson describes the farmer’s use of parathion as warlike and inhuman, in an attempt to persuade her readers to condemn the farmers’ action. Carson explains that a group of farmers from southern Indian…

I in this discussion post would like to discuss the externalities, meaning the uncompensated impact of one person’s actions on the well-being of a third party, presented and disregarded in the news in connection to the construction of a stadium in Las Vegas. In addition, I would also like to discuss if the stated assumptions of the positive externalities are correct or not. I will be taking articles from other new sources that will not be clearly directed at the Las Vegas stadium, but stadiums…

The Necessary Revolution Book Review The book, Necessary Revolution is written by Peter Senge, Bryan Smith, Nina Kruschwitz, Joe Laur and Sara Schley. It discusses how people, organizations and nations are joining hands to come up with positive changes especially in light of sustainability problems that include global warming that is a threat to humanity and the environment. The book tries to lay emphasis on issues of sustainability which have brought about a global dilemma that…