Tag: Student

  • Divest Duke Urges University to Phase Out Investment in Fossil Fuels

    Laura Mistretta is a senior Environmental Science and Policy major at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment. As a student of environmental science I have made it a priority to understand the root causes of climate change in the hopes of contributing to a solution. My classes have highlighted numerous possible points of intervention:…

  • The Legacy of Mercury Pollution in California’s Bay Area

    Sigi Ocker is a senior at The Urban School of San Francisco and is attending Whittier College in the Fall. Sigi finds interest in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Science and will likely pursue a degree in one of these areas. California Bay Area fishermen are losing business due to increased awareness of mercury contamination in…

  • Two College Students Show How to Grow Solutions

    People always ask me how I stay optimistic in the face of so much bad news about the environment. Easy: I stop and look around me at all the people who are working to make the situation better. Two of those people are college students Alex Freid and Amira Odeh. [caption id="attachment_326984" align="alignnone" width="500"] Amira Odeh…