Toiling in the Smoke: Historic Wildfires Threaten California’s Agricultural Workforce

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by Teresa Campbell “The sky darkened… It was like night during the day.” This could be the opening line to a sci-fi movie, yet it was a farmworker’s description of a California vineyard in mid-September.  As fires ravaged close by, he continued to pick grapes, working through the smoke dense enough to blot out the …

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UC Berkeley’s Zero Waste By 2020: Goals, Realities, and Reframings for the Future

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by Olivia Hemond UC Berkeley community members may have noticed the signs around campus advertising the goal of “Zero Waste by 2020.” The campaign has reduced the amount of waste the campus sends to landfills by 20% since 2012, although the pandemic has temporarily disrupted recent operations. Now, moving forward from its titular year, the …

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Women’s Interconnection with the Environment

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by Jessica Stubbs A staggering female majority champions modern environmental revolutions and sustainability movements. Yet, this pervasive and seemingly intuitive trend has not been thoroughly explored. Women’s capacity for reproduction has long tied their biological identity to the symbiosis of the natural world. Similarly, their historical and cross-cultural roles as agricultural producers and home managers …

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Opinion: What Happens When We Push Away Republican Allies?

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by Jeremy Chang Those of us who paid attention to politics during the 2016 election witnessed the culmination of growing fear towards immigrants and automation. This sentiment led to the election of our president who promised the American people a safe haven from the seemingly boundless opportunities for jobs to be stolen from right under …

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In a Move Towards Sustainability, is PLA Truly the Best Option?

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by Fallon Funseth Earlier today, I went to Starbucks. Before my name was called, I thought of getting a straw— but ultimately decided otherwise. Upon receiving my drink, I realized I hadn’t needed one in the first place—the drink came with what looked like a clear version of a coffee shop lid. It turns out, …

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A Rising Form of Environmental Activism: Litigation

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by Tiffany Liang “Ideally we want to see Congress passing laws that are enforced, we want to see civil society involved in projects on the ground. We ideally don’t want to see all of these resources being spent writing petitions and paying lawyers to go to court.” The phrase environmental activism brings to mind organized strikes with …

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