Sustainable Education? Sustainability Education? Education for Sustainability?

Whatever it is – we need it! Environmental education has truly proven itself as an incredibly influential and successful tool over recent decades. Working within the field myself, I have found this practice to be incredibly rewarding for a variety of ways, particularly that I am able to simultaneously and positively impact both children and…

Recycle Mania at Chatham

Zachary J. Schmucker, communications and outreach assistant for Chatham University’s Office of Sustainability, introduces us to Recycle Mania and what Chatham University can do to help with the competition.

Global Warming: Spring 2013 Vs. Spring 2014

              The unpredictability of unusual weather conditions are also a part of global warming. It does not only mean that the planet is warming, but normal weather conditions are changing and the world as a whole is weather disturb.

Alice Julier’s Take on The Business of Food

As a subscriber to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette with a mother who finds its necessary to cut out every news article that aligns with my interest, I was first introduced to Alice Julier when the Post-Gazette ran a feature piece on her Chatham University début as Program Director and Associate Professor of Food Studies. After saving…

How to Love the Environment through… Food!

 I have a friend in Brazil, Luana Damasceno, who is frequently posting on Facebook photos of the vegetables she cultivates in her backyard. I must confess that I didn’t understand very well the passion she has by her little vegetables. Chatham University hosted on May 4th the second edition of “Food in Our Neighborhoods”, where…

A Broader Form of Environmentalism

Written by Leiba Estrin   How can a mother care for her child if her mental state of mind is out of sync? Can a farmer clean and feed his animals if he neglects to care for his own health? As humans who care about the Earth, it can be argued that we are all…

The Environmental Journalism in Brazilian Media

When I was studying journalism in Brazil, for two years I participated in a research project where I had to analyze the way that the main representatives of Brazilian press media portrayed global warming and other environmental topics to its audience. It was the first contact that I had with environmental journalism during the course,…

Conflicting World Views and Environmentalism

It is hard to be an environmentalist. The average person might complain that recycling is too much work, or that organic food is too expensive, or that riding your bike is too much of a hassle. However, these complaints exist because the cultural infrastructure does not support the environmentalist ideology. The basic tenets of keeping…