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Modern Day Druidry
Jimmy, , Community, Fall 2022, History, Religion, Technology, culture, environment, Nature, Orange Cove High School, religion, 2Oh world, oh so digitalized. Our love, medicalized. No time for nature. No time for the world around us....
Saving Sharks, One Fin at a Time
Zoe, , Environment, Life Below Water, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, sharks, 0This article gave some unique reasons as to why we shouldn’t be fishing for sharks. The most interesting point...
Utilizing Genetically-Informed Research Designs to Better Understand Family Processes and Child Development: Implications for Adoption and Foster Care Focused Interventions
Evan, , Family, Good Health and Well-Being, Psychology, adoption, environment, evidence, foster care, genetics, hereditary, mental health, psychology, research, 0While pondering the question of Nature or Nurture, I wanted to apply it to a real world situation. The...
The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.
Sam, , Nuclear Energy, Science, Science & Math, environment, future, nuclear energy, 0In this National Geographic article (published May 4, 2021), two experts on nuclear energy give their opinions on what...
Ecotourism could help the Amazon reduce deforestation and handle climate change
Kate, , Environment, Environment & World, ecotourism, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 0The Amazon region depends on deforestation for its economy, but this deforestation destroys the natural habitats of animals (many...
How Marine Protected Areas Help Fisheries and Ocean Ecosystems
Zoe, , Environment, Life Below Water, environment, Ocean, 0This article explains the many benefits of MPAs. Though not specific to sharks, it shows how ecosystems, fisheries, and...
Dr. Brenda Shook is an associate professor of psychology at National University. She explains that the question isn’t “nature...
What is Ecotourism? Concept Explanation and Goals
Kate, , Environment, Environment & World, ecotourism, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 0Although ecotourism can look different from place to place, the goal remains the same- having a positive impact on...
MIT “The Future of Nuclear Power” (Executive Summary)
Sam, , Affordable and Clean Energy, Environment & World, Nuclear Energy, Science & Math, environment, nuclear energy, sustainability, 0This 2003 interdisciplinary report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “The Future of Nuclear Power” and its subsequent 2009...
What’s Next for Nuclear Energy in 2021
Sam, , Nuclear Energy, Science & Math, environment, nuclear energy, Renewable Energy, sustainability, 0The Biden Administration has set a goal for America: it will be carbon neutral by 2050. The nuclear energy...
Ecotourism in Costa Rica
Kate, , Environment, Environment & World, costa rica, ecotourism, environment, 0Costa Rica has rainforests, beaches, volcanos, wetlands, caves, and incredible biodiversity and is, therefore, one of the most popular...
Website: https://traveltips.usatoday.com/problems-ecotourism-108359.html Ecotourism is travelling to natural environments while doing nothing to change these areas and actually benefitting the...
Nature vs. Nurture Debate Continues
Evan, , Environment & World, Psychology, character development, environment, mentalhealth, 0Though scientists don’t advocate for either nature or nurture, there are optimal methods in both that develop personality positively....
This 2003 interdisciplinary report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology “The Future of Nuclear Power” and its subsequent 2009...
What Is The Country That Is Committed To Reducing Plastic Next Step?
Jennifer Gz, , Environment, Environment & World, Fall 2021, Gathering data through all senses, Life Below Water, Questioning and posing problems, Remaining open to continuous learning, Showcase, environment, Orange Cove High School, 1In the article, “France Bans Plastic Packaging” (McGraw Hill), France will start to use either reusable or recyclable materials...
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Ella, , Creating, imagining, and innovating, Creative Writing, Environment & World, Fall 2021, Gathering data through all senses, Nature, Poems and Stories, Poetry, Remaining open to continuous learning, Showcase, Thinking flexibly, Climate Action, Climate Change Effects, environment, Fall 2021, magazine, national day of writing, Silver Creek High School, writeout, 14Flow in Flow out Baby’s breath, Moss Lung, cling to the mouth of the cave, Rustled by her breath,...
Climate Change: A Hoax?
Kyler, , Climate Action, Environment, Environment & World, Climate Change, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 3Climate change is a huge issue facing our world today. I believe that climate change is one of the...
What will the earth look like in 100 years?
Kate, , Climate Action, Environment, Environment & World, Fall 2021, Showcase, earth, environment, future, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 6Even if we make big changes, it’s unlikely that climate change will completely end. In 100 years, oceans will...
Public Lands In Native Hands
Sam, , Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Spring 2021, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Native Americans, Public Lands, 2The story of public lands in America is one of constant battles between those who wish to exploit them...
Groundbreaking Colorado River Solutions Proposed in Report
Henry, , Environment, Spring 2021, change, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 0NowComment Annotations: https://nowcomment.com/documents/266688 In 2014, the organization American Rivers and the Western Resource Association published a 75-page report that...
If we want to save our public land, there’s only one way to do it – together
Sam, , Climate Action, Environment, conservation, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Public Lands, 1Outdoorsmen often have an understanding with one another. Despite geographical, ethnic, or any other number of differences, those of...
What Happens to the Plastic that we Recycle into Blue Bins?
Yamile, , Climate Action, Environment, Environment & World, Showcase, Spring 2021, environment, Orange Cove High School, recycling, 3You finish your bottled water, so you throw it into the blue recycling bin. Great! You’ve done your part...
The Colorado River is Nearing its Limits
Henry, , Clean Water and Sanitation, Environment, Showcase, Spring 2021, This is America, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Nature, water crisis, 0I invite you to read and comment on this article with me on NowComment:“The West’s Great River Hits Its...
America Means Selfishness
Mazda, , American Creed, American Dream, Environment, Environment & World, Spring 2021, america, Berkeley High School, environment, 2When it comes to the concept of America, most people think of the land of freedom, honesty, and opportunity....
“Wall Street Eyes Billions in the Colorado River” – NYT
Henry, , Environment & World, Spring 2021, This is America, economy, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, sustainability, water, 0Link to article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/business/colorado-river-water-rights.html Link to annotations: https://nowcomment.com/documents/261839 At the end of the 2015 movie, “The Big Short,” which...
Protecting Our Public Lands: Hope In The Face Of Greed
Sam, , Call to Action, Environment, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Public Lands, responsible land management, 0Anyone who lives in the American West will tell you of the almost mythical proportions of the wilderness in...
Standing Rock Protests and Native American Land Access
Jaden, , Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Environment & World, Fall 2020, Showcase, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Berkeley High School, environment, Native American Pipeline Protest, Native Americans, 0I have been recently researching Native American reservations/ land access and also the recent standing rock protests. I chose...
Peacefully Protecting the Land
Max, , Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Environment, Environment & World, Fall 2020, Showcase, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Berkeley High School, Decolonizing Research Project, environment, Native American Pipeline Protest, Native Americans, 0The issue I have chosen to study is the issue of the standing rock pipeline. There is a pipeline...
What are we to do?
Diego, , Climate Action, Environment, Environment & World, Fall 2020, Showcase, environment, Global Warming, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, Wordly Problems, 2In what way can we make the world better? Such an open-ended question to ask, I know, but it...
Car Accidents
Jennifer, , Showcase, Spring 2020, Upstander, community, environment, Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, Oakland, 9Dearest Oakland, Don’t you detest when you encounter an awful driver that makes you end up in the medical...
Research Update: Plant Based Diets Can Save the Planet!
Hannah, , Responsible Consumption and Production, Spring 2020, environment, farming, health, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 1In my search to find more research on plant based diets and how they can save the environment, I...
Plant Based Diets and Saving Our Planet
Hannah, , Clean Water and Sanitation, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Spring 2020, environment, health, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, veganism, vegetarian, 3In my last youth voice post, I discussed a new plan that New York city schools were implementing into...
When it comes to the topic of “America” most people think of money , success , and power. According...
Should We Ban Plastic Bottles?
Graham, , Clean Water and Sanitation, Climate Action, Environment, Environment & World, Fall 2019, Life Below Water, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Climate Change, environment, Plastic, plastic pollution, Plastic waste, 2Tons of plastic debris is discarded every year, polluting lands, rivers, coasts, beaches, and oceans. The main problem for...
Endagered Species In China
Braden, , AAPI Heritage, Environment, Fall 2019, Life on Land, Partnerships for the Goals, Showcase, Berkeley High School, china, endangered species, environment, 9The world is full of endangered species. People around the globe are taking action to decrease the rate of...
The Next Step for Children’s Climate Change Protests
Matthew, , Climate Action, Fall 2019, Showcase, Berkeley High School, Climate Change, environment, Pollution, 6We all know that climate change is a big problem. Scientists advise completely cutting carbon emissions by the year...
Bread stapled to trees
Joshua, , Art, Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2019, Happiness, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, #Trees, Bread, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, reddit, Staples, 10The Internet is full of interesting and especially odd ideas. These ideas sometimes get so successful that even communities...
Fossil Fuel vs. Renewable Energy
Kaan, , Clean Water and Sanitation, Environment & World, Fall 2019, Showcase, environment, health, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, 0Fossil Fuels are formed from plants and animals that lived hundreds of millions of years ago and became buried...
YES, The Government Does Protect The Environment
Aliko, , Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2019, Partnerships for the Goals, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, environment, Okemos High School, 0There are many American values like personal control over the environment. The environment has become a huge discussion today...
Ocean Pollution
Elsie, , Clean Water and Sanitation, Environment, Environment & World, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Spring 2019, Sustainable Cities and Communities, environment, littering, oceanpollution, Pollution, trash, 0From walkways, when we commute, and subways, litter is everywhere. Littering can prompt deplorable mischief on our daily lives....
Littering in the NYC Subway System
Artemis, , Environment & World, Showcase, Spring 2019, #litter, #sanitation, #slamdunkthejunk, environment, 0Above is a video I made about littering in the New York City subway system. Littering is a giant...
Climate Change
Ivy, , Clean Water and Sanitation, Fall 2018, Life Below Water, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Spring 2019, Berkeley High School, Climate Change, environment, 2Climate change is important because it affects the entire planet and everyone on it. Some of the effects of...
Immigration separation
Milagro, , Fall 2018, Showcase, Spring 2019, Berkeley High School, environment, 0Immigration separation In US is greatly important to me because I find this to be one of the most...
The Expansion of Light Pollution
Alexandra, , Climate Action, Environment, Environment & World, Fall 2018, Nature, Politics, Responsible Consumption and Production, Showcase, Sustainable Cities and Communities, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, light pollution, 1With the implementation of government policies, the effects of light pollution, such as washing out starlight in the night...
The Need For Governmental Policies to Counteract Light Pollution
Alexandra, , Environment, Environment & World, Fall 2018, Partnerships for the Goals, Science, Showcase, Sustainable Cities and Communities, environment, Judge Memorial Catholic High School, light pollution, public policy, 0When you think about pollution, what comes to mind? From images of dirty, suffocating air, oceans crowded with...
What is Global Warming and How Can We Take Action to Prevent It?
Sama, , Climate Action, Nature, Showcase, Spring 2018, Arctic Ice Melt, carbon dioxide, Climate Change, environment, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Sea level, Temperature Changes, 0The issue that I am discussing is global warming. I am passionate about this issue because this is our...
Climate Change
Rahul, , Climate Action, Nature, Quality Education, Science, Showcase, Spring 2018, Agriculture, carbon dioxide, clean, electric, emission, environment, greenhouse, infrastructure, low-energy, Pollution, power, quality, soil, sustainability, water, 1The issue that I am doing in my video is known as climate change. Climate change is...
Why Should We Find Another Habitable Planet?
Mary, , Showcase, Spring 2018, astronomy, environment, nasa, Space Exploration, 4As of 2011, NASA’s Kepler mission spent $600 million on its launch and has since discovered 54 potentially habitable...
Climate Change Intensifying Hurricanes
Sofia, , Climate Action, Hurricane Harvey, Showcase, Spring 2018, Climate Change, environment, Global Warming, Hurricanes, 5Over the last decade or so, America and many other countries in the Atlantic have been ravaged by monster...
The Effects of Aquatic Pollution
Tanner, , Clean Water and Sanitation, Environment, Fall 2017, Nature, Showcase, Spring 2018, Sustainable Cities and Communities, environment, health, Nature, Pollution, 1There are many problems affecting the environment today. The list of issues can go on and on and on....
Shark Finning
Abby, , Call to Action, Fall 2017, Life on Land, Nature, Showcase, environment, Rights, sharks, 6Shark finning is the process in which sharks in the worlds oceans are being hunted and caught using long-line...
A Monumental Mistake
Sofia, , Fall 2017, Nature, Politics, Rights, Showcase, Donald Trump, environment, Public Lands, 7As many fellow Utahns may have heard, the size of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase have been...
A world without plastic, would it be fantastic?
Catherine, , Fall 2017, Inquiry, environment, Plastic, 0Things change every day, but one thing that seems to remain constant is plastic. It’s found in a lot...
Is our air pollution getting better?
Jesus, , Climate Action, Decision Making, Fall 2017, Getting Started, Showcase, air, air quality, community, environment, Make the World a Better Place, Pollution, the future, 2Throughout the whole nation many fuels are emitted onto the air wether it being emitted anywhere from vehicles to...
Earth as 2/3 Land
Juliana, , Getting Started, Life on Land, Nature, Showcase, earth, environment, water, what if, 1What would the planet be like if ⅔ the surface were land instead of water? Many have wondered this,...
Will our environment continue to grow unhealthier or will we be able to change that?
Charlie, , Climate Action, Fall 2017, Nature, Showcase, Climate Change, environment, save the earth, 2Based on the world around me today, it is apparent that the Earth is growing worse and worse every...
From Makeup to Mini Me’s
Hailey, , Family, Showcase, children, environment, influences, mentors, Parents, 0In this article, there is the idea that Mendel’s study was successful in determining the chances of getting a...
Water Pollution
Eric, , Call to Action, Clean Water and Sanitation, Environment, Raise Your Voice, Sustainable Cities and Communities, What do I stand for?, change, environment, LRNG, Okemos High School, Pollution, 0This infographic was made in collaboration with Quan Nguyen.
Water pollution is a big problem. However, when people think about it, they imagine dark sludge pouring into rivers,...
Veganism and the Environment
Heidi, , Climate Action, Good Health and Well-Being, Showcase, Spring 2017, Zero Hunger, Climate Change, environment, Hunger, veganism, 2An article titled “The Politics of Veganism” breaks down this lifestyle into all sorts of topics of debate. It...
Turning back from climate catastrophe will also clean up our air, reduce asthma, and promote energy
Kathleen, , Climate Action, Showcase, Spring 2017, Climate Change, environment, Global Warming, 2The United States has taken significant steps to improve the quality of of this country’s air. This generation needs...
How do Our Dietary Choices Impact the Environment?
Heidi, , Climate Action, Good Health and Well-Being, Nature, Showcase, Spring 2017, Zero Hunger, carbon footprint, Climate Change, environment, health, vegan, veganism, 5Climate change is affecting our planet now more than every, and people may have a bigger part in this...
Medical waste and it’s impact on the environment
Abi, , Fall 2016, environment, medical, medicalwaste, Pollution, waste, 0I am researching the impact of medical waste on our environment. I am interested in this topic because it...
Water: An Often Overlooked Resource
Minnie, , 2nextprez, Climate Action, Nature, Showcase, Climate Change, environment, Okemos High School, water, water wars, 3Dear Next President: In many cases, it is human nature to look more at the short term than the...
I am researching whether I would prefer to live in Utah or New York. When considering this question many...
Do we really care about the environment?
Katie, , Climate Action, Fall 2016, Showcase, Climate Change, environment, go green, planet, 1A study published by the Nature Climate Change found that people who believe that climate change is a serious problem...