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Can We Grow the Economy Without Growing Emissions?

This week’s readings pushed me to think more critically about the relationship between economic growth and…
Reform Environmentalism: Science, Power, and the Limits of Technical Fixes

Reading Chapter 8 reshaped how I think about mainstream environmentalism. Reform Environmentalism is presented as the…
The Paradox of “Green” Energy

What struck me most in this week’s materials is the contradiction embedded in the term green…
When the Air We Breathe Becomes Political

While reading Chapters 18 and 19 of Living in the Environment, I began to question why…
Ecosystems and “Wicked Problems”: Why Sustainability Is More Than Science

This week’s readings reshaped how I think about environmental problems. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment emphasizes that…
Rethinking Waste: Designing a Food System That Values What It Produces

During our sustainability backcasting activity, our group imagined a future in which food waste in the…