What I didn’t realize at the time, but started to appreciate as I volunteered year after year, was how time stops when you are connecting with your own environment and the nature that surrounds you.
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to one of the most naturally biodiverse regions in the country, with an abundance of unique animals that fill almost every ecological niche in the animal kingdom. In fact, the Bay Area is in the middle of the California Floristic Province, one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots. …
There is no easy answer to the question of what we do with our refuse
Flash back to the Spring of 2008, Barack Obama had just announced his candidacy for President of the United States, Bear Stearns was about to go bankrupt, and Whittier College had just launched a number of initiatives in hope of turning Whittier into a “greener” campus. It was at this time Whittier claimed to have launched its first successful recycling program in campus history.
Over the past two years, Whittier has embarked on conservation projects such as drought-resistant gardens and water-use reductions. Still, the school uses plastics widely, including in the Campus Inn dining hall and The Spot Cafe. …
By Nikky Huynh, Jehan Godrej and David Bean
A rattlesnake shaking its tail to warn the child who approaches is sublime. For those who have affection towards nature are stirred with both esteem and understanding at the imagination of such a sight. Esteem is provoked from one’s ability to reason and calculate the power of both the snake to hurt and the man to obliterate, but it’s sublime to do neither. On the other hand, nature may also appear beautiful at the sight of lively rivers occupied by some fish, tender-hearted people and tall one-legged birds. Compared to provoking esteem…
Jehan Godrej
I’m passionate about the intersection of technology and environmental conservation. Currently working on @https://deuce.technology/
