Ecovillages Are Illuminating the Way to a Sustainable Future
Ecovillage: an intentional, traditional or urban community that is consciously designing its pathway through locally owned, participatory...
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Julie Kucks
Sep 21, 20221 min read
Can Nature-Inspired Architectural Design Affect Cognition?
Biophilia. Translated as “love of life,” it is the concept that human beings are innately wired with a love of and desire to be in...
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Julie Kucks
Sep 13, 20225 min read
Grounding: The Electric Healer
“The ungrounded state is neither normal nor natural, nor the way that humans lived throughout most of history.” – Clint Ober A few weeks...
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Julie Kucks
Sep 7, 20222 min read
Flying Away Home: Migration 101
Perhaps you’ve watched the endearing 90’s film Fly Away Home where a young girl raises an orphaned flock of geese and helps show them...
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Julie Kucks
Aug 30, 20221 min read
Cloud-Seeding: The Middle East’s Race to Claim Rainfall
Middle Eastern countries are attempting to make clouds pour down rain to restore their water supply. A recent New York Times piece...
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Anderson Eduardo Santos
Aug 24, 20221 min read
Know the Bee, Not the Idea of the Bee
An important personal piece featured in Science impresses upon us that deep learning and academic success must be founded on lived...
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Julie Kucks
Aug 16, 20225 min read
Top 10 Most Efficient Individual Actions to Fight Climate Change
By Julie Kucks There is an 80-foot-long clock on a building in Manhattan’s Union Square that actively counts down the numbers of years,...
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Julie Kucks
Aug 9, 20221 min read
UNESCO Calls Higher Education to Climate Action
Earlier this year, UNESCO released a report that outlined steps for how higher education institutions are expected to help deliver on the...
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Julie Kucks
Aug 2, 20227 min read
Lake Ecology: The Complex World Within Water
By Julie Kucks Perhaps you’ve seen a Rube Goldberg Machine in action. Rube Goldberg, a cartoonist and inventor, became famous for...
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Julie Kucks
Jul 13, 20225 min read
Water: 5 Ways to Conserve, 5 Ways to Recycle
Water feels boundless to the majority of Americans. Most of us do not make the connection between the amount of water running out of our...
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Rommel Santos
Jun 21, 20222 min read
Universities Take the Hint that the Climate Crisis isn’t Going Anywhere
An article by Julie Kucks Some of the top universities in the world are incorporating sustainability education into their curricula due...
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Julie Kucks
Jun 14, 20224 min read
Global Food Systems Should Take Pointers from Pride Month
It seems we need a Pride Month for our food systems. The recent global crises we’ve sustained in the pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine,...
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Julie Kucks
Jun 7, 20222 min read
Rayonier: The Company That’s Rebuilding U.S. Forests
Rayonier is a company dedicated to rebuilding the environment by re-populating forest ecosystems. Visit their website HERE. It’s easy to...
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Nandini Menon
May 24, 20221 min read
Can Algae Charge Your Smartphone?
An article by Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine May 17, 2022. Full article here. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an ever-growing...
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Rommel Santos
Apr 20, 20221 min read
Engineering Trees To Grow Faster And Capture More Carbon
An article by Vanessa Bates Ramirez Singularity Hub April 14 2022 Genetic engineering has given scientists the power to manipulate...
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