An Aspiring Environmentalist

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A Fierce Green Fire

I sat through history class like all students: with a mild interest in the regurgitation of facts and dates. It was not until my senior year in high school that I met a teacher that could change my perspective on history – a teacher that showed me that what has happened in the past directly caused the situation we are living in today. So while environmental science may be leagues away from the subject of history, the history of environmental science is vital for the evolution of the subject and key to making a difference in the world.

I recently watched a film about the history of the environmentalist movement, and it was quite refreshing to learn about those that fought for the same principles and issues I hold dear to my heart. A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet, a film by Mark Kitchell, caught my eye and quickly found itself on my Netflix queue.  Looking back at the techniques utilized by environmental activists allows current and future activists to discern how to best get the point across (because frankly if the point doesn’t come across soon and very clear, there may be no planet)

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Can you spot the snow leopard?

Click here to find out if you were right!

Inger Vandyke and her team sat for six hours watching the snow leopard that’s camouflaged in the photo above. Known as the “ghosts of the mountains,” snow leopards are super stealth, but they’re also endangered—there are only about 1,000 of these amazing animals left in the wild. Check out the source article on Earth Touch News Network to find out if you spotted the leopard correctly, and to learn more about how they camouflage themselves. 

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So at various periods over the last 3.8 billion years you have abhorred oxygen and then doted on it, grown fins and limbs and jaunty sails, laid eggs, flicked the air with a forked tongue, been sleek, been furry, lived underground, lived in trees, been as big as a deer and as small as a mouse, and a million things more.

Bill Bryson (A Short History of Nearly Everything)

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Journey of Self-Discovery

I embarked on my college career absolutely certain that I was meant to study International Relations – and just as many college students realize: I was absolutely uncertain of what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Waves of anxiety crashed throughout my first quarter at the University of Denver. I had carefully constructed my first schedule with classes which I thought would enthrall me, but unfortunately did not achieve such standards. The only haven I could find in the seemingly endless hours of Issues in Global Political Economy, German, Literary Inquiry, and the International Experience came when I sat in With and Without Nature. I felt like I had found myself amongst the pages of John Muir, Henry Thoreau, and Charles Darwin. My interest grew so immense that all at once I knew I had found what I was searching for. Environmentalism pumps through my veins, it is in my being. So with that I declared my Environmental Science major and embarked on a new journey of worldly and self-exploration. Such adventures will compromise my blog, marking the passage of self-awareness and the seeking of wisdom.