Environment

By bringing in your own reusable glassware, cup or mug to your favorite coffee shop, you can greatly reduce the amount of waste you contribute in your lifetime, making a small step toward reducing your individual environmental footprint.

Climate change will have insurmountable effects on agricultural productivity levels. Whether this be through increased temperatures, decreasing soil health, irregular rainfall or more frequent catastrophic climate events, the potential consequences are far reaching and numerous.

Moving into the future, regenerative farming can be a great tool for farmers and ranchers to harness worldwide as they adapt to a changing climate. Although it may seem daunting to try instituting new agricultural practices, the long list of benefits is critical for achieving success far into the future.

As artificial intelligence and machine learning continue to assert themselves as the present and future of technology, a number of innovators are using these tools to better understand the changing world around us.

Many policies have been discussed for implementation such as carbon pricing, carbon taxing, cap and trade policies and subsidies. Within each of these potential policy solutions, there are advantages and disadvantages. Current discussion on the concept of a carbon tax — a potential option into the future — has warranted much conversation.

Ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, is the idea that environmental issues and the oppression of women are intrinsically connected.

Intellectually, I knew that it was wrong, but I had to confess that I really did miss my car. 

Although the progress being made can be left to debate, the fact that climate policy has even entered discussion in the U.S. Department of Defense is a milestone in itself. By further focusing on climate policy in combat, both the government and country can reduce overall emissions, marking a step in the right direction toward addressing climate change.

With the complexity of the climate crisis, it is important to change both individual and structural patterns, as they are codependent and we cannot pursue one without the other. This framework should become commonplace to climate action nationwide. By reinvigorating the environmental movement and engaging the whole nation in the importance of this fight to preserve humanity, hope can emerge for the future. 

And seeing how drastically public transit has cut Oslo’s emissions, I recognize it as a top priority to utilize and protect for the Bay Area’s residents and community.