Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. — Al Franken As humans, we are bound to mess up. Luckily, most of these mistakes help us to grow and learn. As… Read more »
For our action project, Tova, Ryan, Elyse and I worked to promote Food Lifeline’s Seattle’s Table, a nonprofit organization designed to deliver surplus food, that is otherwise destined to be composted or thrown away, to meal programs throughout King County. This program has a twofold impact on the Anthropocene, reducing food waste and feeding the hungry. With our action project… Read more »
Why do we ignore climate change? PBS’s, “It’s Okay To Be Smart” examines this conundrum. Our modern minds are equipped with stone age technology, deciphering today’s events with a dated and out of focus lens. Issues that demand our brains attention are personal, abrupt, immoral and are happening in the now. Climate change lacks these attention-grabbing characteristics, which allows our… Read more »
I’ve always been aware that no one being solely impacts itself. Yet, I was ignorant of how interconnected our earth is. I once thought of the world as being a collection of groups, a colony of independent systems. Each system having its own interplay of threads, one may be pulled, and somewhere within the system, that tug has an effect…. Read more »
We have all heard about global warming. Politicians, scientists and the media battle daily over this issue. Yet, many seem to forget a key aspect of global warming, the fact that it is global. This is not an individual issue, something a county or state can amend. Not even nationwide activism can solve global warming. To begin a reversal, or… Read more »
