Life After Death? Repurposing What Remains
The environmental movement in America has expanded rapidly in the past few decades. Greener products and green ideologies have become increasingly more mainstream, and nearly all industries have been impacted by the change. However, the funeral industry had been...
Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline: Big Win or Big Politics?
By: Christina Leon After a contentious and drawn out seven-year process, President Obama has finally announced the rejection of TransCanada’s 1,179-mile pipeline proposal during a Friday press conference at the White House.[4] The project would have authorized...
Doubling Up on Local Foods
By Andrea Clinton Though much of the food Americans consume is grown and shipped from around the world, locally-grown and sourced food is growing in popularity and demand. According to data published by the USDA, in 2008, 5 billion dollars were spent on local...
Paper and Plastic and Metals, Oh My!
By Vivian Tu As busy UChicago students, we often run from café to café for coffee, snacks, and everything in between. This creates a lot of trash from cups, wrappers, and containers, but I’ve always noticed students here making marked efforts to place all of...
Fueling Local Water Pollution: A Visit From Former EAF Member Andrew Stevens
By Caitlin Piccirillo-Stosser Last Friday, October 23rd, EAF was proud to welcome back one of our founding members, Andrew Stevens. Since receiving his A.B. in Economics and Environmental Studies from UChicago in 2012, Andrew went off to...
A Home Run for Sustainability
By Claire Pieper Tonight, the World Series is kicking off between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals! The EAF group is incredibly excited to watch the series, which will be played at Citi Field in New York and Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. While...
2015 Chicago Marathon: Promoting Environmental Sustainability One Step at a Time.
By: May-May Chen Running is one of the greenest sports on this planet. You can do it anywhere at any time, and, unlike other sports, it doesn’t require any equipment, electricity or gasoline. But when 40,000 runners, 1.7 million spectators, and over 100...
Shrubs, Cattle, and Soil: A Summer on Naushon Island
By Eva Kinnebrew Eva Kinnebrew is a 4th-year Environmental Studies major. This summer she was a Jeff Metcalf intern at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, where she studied grassland ecology. Naushon Island, the largest of the Elizabeth Islands...
Thorium: A New Hope for our Environment?
As world energy demands skyrocket and climate change looms around the corner, a new nuclear fuel, thorium, is emerging as a clean, safe and cheap fuel that could power the world for generations to come. Can thorium offer the energy alternative we need to power the...
The World’s Worst Market Failure: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The World’s Worst Market Failure: Greenhouse Gas Emissions, by Sam Zacher Sam Zacher is a 4th year student double majoring in economics and environmental studies. This is Sam’s second blog post as a guest contributor for EAF. His previous post was on Ohio State...