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Monsanto, Student Activism, and a New Normal
After a long Wednesday of classes, I tossed my backpack onto the kitchen table and decided to check my emails one last time before cooking dinner. Scanning my inbox, I…
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#MyDemocracy Puts People Above Polluters
I’d already been suspended from the bridge for nearly 30 hours. I was sore, I’d barely slept, and the unusually hot Portland sun had me sweating in my protective gear.…
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They Murdered My Mother for Defending the Environment — Help Me Seek Justice
In March, my mother Berta Cáceres was murdered in her own home. Her death pains me in a way I cannot describe with words. She was killed for defending life,…
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How Your Generosity Is Helping #NoDAPL Camps Keep Up the Resistance
Right now, the eyes of the nation are trained squarely on the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Native-led, peaceful resistance to its construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry…
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Resist Trump, Defend Planet Earth: A Message From Chicago to the White House
It’s a sunny day in my hometown of Chicago and Greenpeace activists have just sent Trump and his team a message they can’t ignore: we will band together to resist…
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Donald Trump’s ‘War on Regulations’ Is Really a War on Working Class People
Donald Trump wants you to think that “regulation“ is a dirty word. To hear his administration talk about things like the Clean Air Act or the Toxic Substances Control Act,…
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How — and Why — You Should Support Climate Justice for Puerto Rico Right Now
As a child, I spent summers in Puerto Rico visiting mis abuelos (grandparents) in their beautiful home in Carolina, a suburb of San Juan; chopping caña, playing in the waterfalls…
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Why I Trawled for Plastic On Board the Arctic Sunrise
I am here to learn more about Greenpeace’s Ocean Plastics campaign and how we can end single-use plastics. Every minute of every day the equivalent of one garbage truck load of…
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Micro-Plastics, Major Problem
As part of my graduate studies at UNC-Wilmington, I’ve learned just how much damage microplastics can do. I’m studying the impacts of ingested plastics on larval fish (inland silversides) and…
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Confessions of a Non-Recycler
I have a confession. There was a time when I really didn’t care about recycling. I don’t mean when I was young and didn’t understand where trash went — when…