Tag: <span>climate change</span>

Fashionably Environmentally Degrading

Who wants to wear the same style for a decade before moving on to a new trend? And why should trendy fashion be reserved for just the catwalk or celebrities? Fashion as a form of self-expression and belonging should be available to all, on demand.   Fast fashion makes it …

Flooded with Possibilities: Deciding New York City’s Fate with Sea Level Rise

It’s the year 2100, and a little boy named John wakes up to the sound of rain. The water rages down on his family’s roof, leaving his bedroom window’s view of Lower Manhattan blurry. John is only 10 years old, but he starts to worry about what the rain means. …

Empty Plates and Full Hearts: Realities of Food Insecurity

According to a report by Feeding America, 1 in 6 children in the United States live in households that face food insecurity, which means they do not have consistent access to enough nutritious food to live a healthy life. Hence, more than 11 million children across the country may not …

Temperatures are Rising in New York, and Policy is Playing Catchup

  Summers in New York City are unbeatable. They’re also unbearably hot, and, due to climate change, they’re getting hotter every year. An 80ºF day is characterized by the smell of hot garbage in the morning, sweltering heat during the day, and relentlessly muggy nights. In a city full of …

Climate change and loss of culture: Why you should care

What’s your mental picture of the impacts of climate change? Starving polar bears, prolonged drought, rising sea levels, inundated cities, melting glaciers? But have you ever thought about the loss of cultural components because of climate change? If your answer is “no”, you’re in the same boat as most people. …

Greening Communities: Water Management for Climate Resilience

An estimated 10 trillion gallons of untreated stormwater runoff, containing everything from raw sewage to trash to toxins, enters U.S. waterways from city sewer systems every year, polluting the environment and our drinking water supplies. The EPA describes stormwater runoff as one of the fastest growing sources of pollution in …

The Next Great Migration

All over the world, from Mexico to Pakistan to right here in the United States, millions of people in the coming decades will be forced to leave their homes as their communities become uninhabitable. Why? Because of climate change.  Up to 200 million people will be displaced by 2050 due …

It’s Time to Make (Green) Amends

In February, 2023, sixteen youth will present their case in the first youth climate trial to go to hearing in the United States. Their claim? That Montana’s energy policy, which buys heavily into fossil fuels, threatens the clean and healthful environment to which they have a constitutional right. Montana’s youth …

Does Resilience Include Retreat? Semantics of Climate Change for Coastal Communities

You’ve probably heard that climate change causes the oceans to rise. And maybe you’ve heard the follow-up statistic, which is that shorelines are rising 1 inch every 7-8 years. To most people this doesn’t seem like much, but this seemingly small figure translates to thousands of miles of coastlines being …

Stronger pH and Weaker Fish

We can see the effects of climate change in many ways: increased forest fires, more extreme seasonal temperatures, more dramatic weather events. But rarely do we think about the effect of a warming climate on ecosystems that aren’t as closely connected to our own world—like the ocean. The ocean plays …