Tag: Environment

Before moving to Florida, I lived in Montreal.  Located in Quebec, Montreal is known for its lively and walkable neighborhoods filled with densely packed businesses and entertainment.  That feature is common in European cities such as Barcelona, Paris...
Although the Earth has more than seven billion people and 30 million different animal species, before the late 1970s, Earth Day wasn’t recognized yearly. In 1969 an oil spill occurred in Santa Barbara, California, and 3 million...

Protect The Earth By Reducing Plastic Dependency

In an effort to reduce the number of greenhouse gases emitted into the environment, grocery stores should educate and encourage their staff and customers...

It’s Time To Prove We Care About The Environment

Scientists have been warning us about an impending global doom that must be resolved immediately but the public ignores and ridicules them. It won’t...

North Campus Planting Seeds For Composting Project

Shannon Harry pays a visit to Kendall Campus’ cafeteria at 1 p.m. every Wednesday.  She takes egg shells, banana peels, coffee grinds and fruit pits...

Climate Change Endangers More Than Just The Polar Bears

For some people, the words “climate change” might conjure up the image of an emaciated polar bear standing on a thinning ice cap or...

The Dangers Of Glacial Retreat

The Ancash province of Northern Peru is well known for the “Cordillera Blanca” mountain range which harbors Huascarán, the tallest mountain in Peru and...

Food Service Areas At Three MDC Campuses Going Green

North, Kendall and Homestead campuses began phasing out the usage of styrofoam this semester. Kendall and Homestead replaced all products in their food service...

Bees Cause New Buzz At North Campus

Miami Dade College is looking to make North Campus a sweeter place. Its solution? Bees. Through the efforts of Christian Acevedo, an environmental science major...

Drinking Straws Suck For The Environment

Drinking straws are extremely unnecessary. The only place where drinking straws are needed are in hospitals, where patients who can’t take in large amounts...

The True Price Of Fashion

Have you ever gone shopping and thought about the real cost of the clothes you are buying? Or thought about the workers who made...

Activism At Home And Beyond

When people hear the term water protector and Standing Rock, North Dakota comes to mind. Last summer in Standing Rock, protests and water protector...

Destroying The Earth Is Killing Humanity

Imagine an alternative planet exactly like ours, where metaphors are incarnate. The physical depiction of our global actions would be the most horrific scene...

Global Conference Connects Students To World Issues

Twenty-five Miami Dade College students joined the Clinton Global Initiative University, a project of former President Bill Clinton’s Foundation for student leaders at the...