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Growing Up in a World of Climate Change

Posted on September 19, 2016September 20, 2016 Eliza SheffPosted in by Clayton Curran

I was first introduced to the idea of climate change and global warming back in 2006 when Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was plastered on every billboard imaginable. As a thirteen-year-old, I was woefully unaware of how much our species was polluting our atmosphere and oceans. What stuck with me the most was how dire […]

What the World Can Learn from the Rio Olympics

Posted on August 8, 2016 Eliza SheffPosted in by Eliza Sheff

While the 2016 Summer Olympics kicked off in Rio last Friday amid the usual fanfare, it was also accompanied by an uncomfortable knowledge that it would be unlike its precedent events in London and Beijing. Under five million of the 6.1 million available tickets were sold, with stadiums for popular events such as beach volleyball […]