Environmentalism

It’s said that the environment we grow up in will define the person you become. My family consist of five people: my mom, my dad, my sister, my grandpa and myself. Since my other relatives live in other countries, it has just been the five of us most of the time. As a result, those 4 people have had a great impact on my dreams, my goals and my personality. Converting to veganism opened my eyes and helped me realize the things I can do for this world. Being vegan has been one of my biggest…

As humans, we never want to stop advancing. We will always look for the next bigger, better, and more efficient way of doing something, which has allowed us to create things such as planes, automobiles, and factories. While these inventions seem to have improved our lives, we see that the creation of this technology has greatly hurt the Earth as well as ourselves when looking at the bigger picture. Albert Einstein himself said that, “all of our exalted technological progress, civilization for…

Save the Harbor/Save the Bay - Since 1986 Lynn Water and Sewer has won multiple awards including the George W. Burke Safety Award and plant performance awards including Best Performing Large Waste Water Plant. Additionally, in the past 10 years they have passed all inspections by the EPA and DEP and have made many energy improvements. As a result of these energy improvements, they were awarded the Massachusetts Energy Improvement Award in 2011. (http://www.lynnwatersewer.org/about.shtml)…

Honey, Tell Me What’s Wrong? A recent analysis on honey concluded that the natural landscape worldwide is thoroughly contaminated with pesticides. Neonicotinoid pesticides, which have been found in a majority of honey samples across the world, cause paralysis and death in insects. In The Guardian article “Honey tests reveal global contamination by bee-harming pesticides,” Damian Carrington, through ethos and logos, effectively advocates for neonicotinoid restriction after explaining the honey…

o anyone in the interior design business, it's clear that one of the most popular up-and-coming design styles is going back to the basics with Scandanavian interiors. Full of stark contrast and luxurious texture, the simplistic style has taken the interior design world by storm. The style is most often characterized by cool tones in blue, gray, and white. There's a significant lack of carpet, as well; flooring is almost exclusively wooden and light-colored. Wood, in fact, is an important…

Authors can influence their readers to do something useful for the environment with several different types of writing. There are three main types of influencing ways a author can write. One would be a way of protesting to change something. Another way would be showing how people what other people are doing to inspire them to do the same. The last way would be to right a fictional piece and represent what is going on in the environment. Every way to influence a reader is very effectual. Many…

Food is essential to human life; it is also something we constantly take for granted. Growing up on a farm, I realized that getting the food out of the ground and to our plates is a complicated process. When I began thinking about the career I desired in life I knew I wanted to be able to support agriculture in whatever I chose. I decided I wanted to be a lobbyist; someone who would lobby on behalf of farmers’ interests and the agricultural industry as a whole. I plan on majoring in Public…

Trash is something we all have but some of us have more of it than others. Trash does not look pretty and can't just be sat on the ground until you can take it to the dumpster. In some cities this is even illegal because it looks bad and animals can get into it and spread it all over the place. If you have a lot of trash you may want to consider a dumpster rental service. That is right, you can rent a whole dumpster to have all to yourself. They make these dumpsters in all different sizes you…

Environmental justice has advocated and made visible the practice of disproportional siting hazardous waste facilities in low income communities of color throughout the United States. Most of the time the state corporate actors are the ones responsible they are the ones who decide where to place the hazardous waste; the state corporate is more concern with where to place the hazardous waste rather than the health and safety of the community, people and their environment. In 1987 a report was…

Why Tearing Down Dams Could Help Save Endangered Killer Whales In the industrialized world, it’s easy to see that construction and manufacturing have had an enormous impact on the ecosystem. Whether you believe in climate change or not, the affects of pollution on the environment are plain to see. In her 2017 article entitled “Why Tearing Down Dams Could Save Endangered Killer Whales,” Hanna Brooks Olsen examines the effect of declining Chinook Salmon population on pregnant Orcas near Seattle.…