our problem with change
Change is great, and sometimes it seems like we are making big steps in changing society for the better, but are we really? There are...
damocracy
We recently watched a video called Damocracy, which showed us how some governments were building dam’s despite protests from locals and...
Damocracy
After watching the short movie Damocracy (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnMD4e6nLms) we were asked to come up with four possible...
The Ocean as an Energy Source: Wave Energy in California
Wave energy conversion takes advantage of the ocean waves caused primarily by interaction of winds with the ocean surface. Wave energy is...
Damocracy
Damocracy was an interesting and thought-provoking documentary. It discusses an important issue facing two different cultures, one in...
Ocean Pollution NOW
So before I begin to talk about the possible future effects that ocean pollution could have on well, life as we know, I should probably...
A Brief Reflection on "Our Sea of Islands"
As a starting point in researching island nations, I was directed toward the essay Our Sea of Islands, written by Tongan-Fijian...
The Ocean in the Anthropocene
This week in class we spent a lot of time talking about the anthropocene – the geological epoch in which humans are a dominant driver of...
what are humans doing to stop ocean acidification?
The Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification is one of the first groups to make federal steps toward fixing ocean acidification. ...
The Anthropocene on Our Water Environments
When I think about our classes this week and how we discussed the Anthropocene in relation to our environment, an important topic came to...