Archive for the ‘Environmentalism and Sustainability’ category

Make your morning routine earth-friendly!

Posted February 22nd, 2010 by admin. Comments (3).

Hello!
Unfortunately I have not been blogging as much as I had hoped to (oops), but I have been having a very busy semester and the only thing I have been thinking about is the brain (I major in brain and cognitive sciences).  However, no matter how busy we are we can still make time to [...]

What the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu taught me

Posted January 18th, 2010 by admin. Comments (2).

Happy 2010 everyone!
Over my winter break I had the wonderful opportunity of traveling to Peru with a friend.  We spent time in a few different areas, but the highlight of the trip by far was hiking the Inca trail to Machu Picchu!! The trek took four days, and I found the hiking incredibly difficult because [...]

Watch this film: “Food Inc.”

Posted December 3rd, 2009 by admin. Comments (3).

I will never eat meat again.  Or at least not unless it is organic, grass-fed, cage-free meat.  This is because I watched the movie Food Inc. I used to be a vegetarian in high school and part of my freshman year of college, but gave up for some reason.  Now I’m firmer in my beliefs [...]

Say ‘no’ to plastic shopping bags!

Posted December 1st, 2009 by admin. Comment (1).

I’m currently tabling for Grassroots (environmental club) in Wilson Commons at my university, and we are selling cute bags for shopping or whatever made out of our unsold event t-shirts from past years.  We’re also selling paper crane earrings and Saranac soda for really cheap! Business has been slow, so I figured this was a [...]

Local Foods Week!

Posted November 30th, 2009 by admin. Comment (0).

Doesn’t this look funner than the supermarket?

This week is local foods week at the University of Rochester.  I thought it would be a good idea to write a blog about the benefits of buying local.  I should first of all mention that this week my university is featuring all local lunches/dinners every day of the [...]