Issue 5, Spring 2022

Fees Apply After Check Out: The Environmental Costs of Online Shopping

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By Elena Hsieh Overconsumption. Retail Therapy. Impulsivity. Dopamine. Two Day Shipping. Capitalism.  With the boom of mass production and the evergrowing ease and convenience of getting desired products at the click of a button, Americans have turned to online shopping as an alternative to going in stores. Adding the burden of the global pandemic, online …

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The Fact and the Fantasy of ESG Investing

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by Colin Mequet Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing is transforming finance. In an industry known for sponsoring environmental degradation and worker exploitation, investors have diverted around $20 trillion into funds aimed at delivering sustainable and social impact.  Bloomberg projects ESG to represent one third of total assets under management by 2025. ESG funds are …

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Right Here, Right Now: Evolution, Human Activity, and Climate Change

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by Khaled Alqahtani Evolution is commonly thought to be a biological process that requires millennia to take place. And while this may hold true, we actually have witnessed the evolution of different species in our lifetimes.  Whether it is the color of a mouse’s fur or the shape of a finch’s beak, different traits evolve …

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Why the Insect Crisis Should Really Bug Us

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by Thuy-Tien Bui On rare occasions, you might be able to spot the endangered mission blue butterfly fluttering around lupine flowers in the coastal grasslands of San Francisco Bay. This beautifully iridescent butterfly was one of the first species added to the endangered species list in 1976 after losing its specialized grassland habitat to urbanization, …

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