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The Case for Caps: Overtourism in Hawaii
In January 2022, the Hawaii Tourism Authority (HTA) marked the first time Native Hawaiians—kanaka maoli—comprised a majority of its...
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Feb 15, 20235 min read


Trees Are People Too
The environment deserves legal rights. On April 26, 2021, a wetland, two marshes, and two creeks sued a property developer in Orange...
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Jan 20, 20225 min read


The Beef With Big Meat: The barriers to expanding the meat-alternative market
Within the span of a month in the spring of 2019, Impossible Foods made a historic deal with Burger King to launch the Impossible...
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Aug 23, 20215 min read
A Low-Carbon Behemoth: What China’s renewable energy apparatus means for global energy politics
In September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced to the United Nations General Assembly that China would achieve carbon neutrality by...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


Political Meat and Fake Meat
Meat (and its absence) is a hallmark of cultures all across the world. Hindus don’t eat beef, Muslims don’t eat pork, and a number of...
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Dec 5, 20206 min read


Superfund Me
Silicon Valley has a secret. Beneath its comically unaffordable real estate lie 23 federally designated sites of toxic waste, 8 more than...
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May 29, 20205 min read


Why Southeast Asia Is Sending The West’s Trash Home
Just a few months ago, Malaysia’s Port Klang was home to a wide array of trash from around the world. Inside the cargo containers that...
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Nov 3, 20196 min read


Jump On It
In many American cities, residents are waking up to find that rentable dockless scooters and bikes have filled their city’s streets. The...
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Sep 24, 20194 min read


Racing Against Time
For many, the winter months mean more than holidays and spending time with family; breaks from work or school are often associated with a...
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Sep 20, 20195 min read


Every Rose Has its Thorn: Exposing Colombia’s Cut Flower Industry
Most Americans might not know it, but the vast majority of the cut flowers sold throughout the country are grown and exported out of...
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Jul 23, 20195 min read


Super Sustainable: How to Make the Greatest Environmental Impact
In an era obsessed with buzzwords, what does it mean to be sustainable? Some might argue that sustainability is the relatively small,...
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Jun 11, 20195 min read


Deal or no Deal? — Green New Deal splits the Democratic Party
Ambitious has certainly been a word used to describe the “Green New Deal,” a 14-page resolution to tackle climate change authored by Sen....
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Apr 20, 20194 min read
Just Above Water: The Unsustainable Republican Denial of Climate Change
An island in the Chesapeake Bay is sinking. It’s projected to be underwater within the next 30 years, and its inhabitants are going to be...
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Apr 20, 20195 min read


Down In The Dumps
The blue bins are for recycling; everyone knows that. Everything in those bins gets melted down and reused for manufacturing paper or...
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Apr 18, 20194 min read


A “Green New Deal” Failed in Washington. What Should Democrats do Now?
The phrase “Green New Deal” has been thrown around a lot as Democrats prepare to take back the House of Representatives for the first...
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Dec 12, 20186 min read


This Land is Their Land: The Amazon’s Cloudy Future Under Tropical Trump
At the end of October, Brazil became the latest country to move to the far-right, electing the ultra-conservative Jair Bolsonaro to the...
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Dec 9, 20185 min read


Saving Soil with Subsidies
Modern environmental regulation and debate tends to focus on electric and industrial production—how it pollutes and how it can be...
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Dec 5, 20186 min read


Taking Root
Though now one of the most arid regions in the world, the Middle East was once home to a lush environment. Sadly, the scattering of...
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Nov 25, 20183 min read


Environmentalist vs. Environmentalist
From the 12th to the 14th of September, the streets of San Francisco and the extensive ranks of the global environmentalist community...
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Nov 6, 20185 min read


America’s War on Wildlife
Helicopters with sniper rifles, cyanide landmines, and poison bombs dropped from the sky: The practices of Wildlife Services sound more...
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Oct 31, 20184 min read
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