Society Can Only Thrive if we use Sustainable Architecture
Matthew Mausner – What does it mean for architecture to be sustainable? How can we create buildings and infrastructure in ways that both serve human needs, and yet minimize the total human impact to the environment?
Social Ecology: The Correlation Between Environmental & Social Issues
Sydney Cohen – Social ecology is one of the most important fields of study in sociology. It deals with the relationship people have to their social living environment, and how they interact with each other and the environment around them.
The Consequences and Effects of Water Pollution
Sydney Cohen – The effects of water pollution are devastating. Water is an essential part of life, and when it becomes polluted, the consequences can be fatal.
Sustainable Clothing: Industry, Pollution and The Alternatives
Ethan Keller and Jocelyn Cohn – Have you ever considered that fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world? Well, it is! Due to low quality material, customers are more likely to buy more clothes which creates more waste.
Understanding the Meaning of “Shabbat Shalom”
Lisa Cohen – Shabbat is one of the most important Jewish observances and is the 4th of the Ten Commandments.
Another resource to destroy: What are the Causes of Water Pollution?
Sydney Cohen – Water contamination, by “substances which make the water unusable for drinking, cooking, cleaning, swimming, and other activities,” is termed water pollution.
The Complexities and Balancing Act of Environmental Ethics
Matthew Mausner – What does it mean to act ethically with respect to the environment? What does it mean to have environmental ethics? These are questions that include many sides and angles of understanding the complex and intertwined set of relationships human society has to ecosystems and the planet as a whole. It raises issues of how to treat animals, plants, and other humans ethically, in a context in which human civilization has major global effects.
What’s Our Chance of Achieving Environmental Sustainability?
Matthew Mausner – When humans were primarily living as small nomadic bands, their impacts on the ecosystems they lived in, and seasonally migrated to, were fairly limited by the relatively small scale of their activities, such as hunting and gathering and so environmental sustainability was the norm. That is humans were living within the resource limits providing the ability of future generations to survive.
Environmental Racism: Race, Place, and Environmental Justice
Ethan Keller – In the USA in the 1980s a new term was developed to represent the movement of environmental justice. Environmental racism is a concept in the environmental justice movement. The term is used to describe injustice that occurs within a racialized context. In the U.S. environmental racism criticizes inequalities between urban and exurban areas after white flight.