The Forks Over Knives documentary is a film that discusses how low-fat, whole-food, plant-based diet is a way to avoid/reserve chronic diseases. The film starts off by discussing how Americans are in a major crisis. Basically 2/3 of individuals are…
Are We too Smart for Our Own Good?
This citation was taken from the article Digging deep: Harnessing the power of soil microbes for more sustainable farming posted on the Sciencedaily network. When reading these first few sentences of the article, most of the audience might feel…
Water – The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
On March 17th, ten students, including myself, and a College of Charleston faculty member, headed to Annapolis, Maryland for an Alternative Spring Break. For this Break experience, we were privileged to be introduced to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.…
Becoming Aware of my Footprint
In the past few years I have become more aware of my footprint on the environment and have strived to reduce it as much as possible. I have changed my spending and eating habits to create as small of a…