Blog Assignment #1: Water Shortage in Cape Town https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/africa/cape-town-water-crisis-trnd/index.html On April 12, Cape Town South Africa, a city of over 4 million people, will most likely run out of water. This shortage of water has caused city officials to declare…
Sustainable Farming in Puerto Rico
Last spring break I went and worked at Plenitud, which is a non profit farm located in Las Marias, Puerto Rico. Their main goal as a farm is to educate the locals and anyone who visits them on how to…
Blog Assignment #1 News; Oil Spill in East China Sea
Huge Oil spill spread in East China Sea, Stirring Environmental Fears https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/15/world/asia/oil-tanker-spill-sanchi-east-china-sea.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FOil%20Spills&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection On January 6th of this year, a tanker by the name of Sanchi was carrying 136,000 tons of highly flammable fuel oil when it crashed into a freighter…
The Island School
I have always tried my best to live a sustainable life. In the back of my mind sustainability has been something I am always conscious of; I have always tried to be conservative with my resources. This was before I…
Change Starts at the Individual Level
Hey there, I chose to write my first blog post on personal change. This is the first environmental class I have taken at the College, and it really opened my eyes to how simple it could be to make…