Author: Riley Cohen

Project Summary: Throughout the project, I will explore the Keystone Pipeline in all its complexities. Specifically, I want to explore the economic impacts of the Keystone…

After watching the documentary Inhabit, I was thoroughly impressed with permaculture’s ability to produce different types of vegetation without the environmental harms of large-scale, commercial…

From all of the art pieces that we looked at, the collection that struck me the most was the collection that included witty advertisements that…

In class this week we read the Pope’s encyclical on climate change. We compared it to the Paris agreement and learned that surprisingly the Pope…

Nanki Singh and Riley Cohen March 3rd, 2017   Introduction:   Deviating from its original use as gum filling for indigenous canoes, the first barrel…

  Before the Flood succeeded in demonstrating two main facts about humans and the environment. The first is that humans have inarguably changed the environment…

The steam around me dissipates as a hand reaches through the hot cloud and grabs me firmly around my cylindrical body. The cycle wasn’t quite…

How do environmental issues register differently in different cultures? (Or do they?) Before taking this course, I didn’t think that environmental issues could be interpreted…

It’s difficult to determine whether a concept such as the wilderness exists independently of human beings, or whether the wilderness has no meaning void of…