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Project Smile: On the Power of the Youth

by Jeremy Calo Alvarez | January 31, 2025 | Articles | 0 Comments

PhotoCredit: Sam Tamayo - Project Smile History is filled with youth movements that have sparked change in the world. From the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, to the events at Tiananmen Square, to the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, to modern...

Empowering Africa

by Methode Emmanuel Ihirwe | January 9, 2025 | Articles | 0 Comments

PhotoCredit: ROMAN ODINTSOV. I read the second edition of The State They’re In by Matthew Lockwood, a book which examines African poverty's causes and politics to propose better aid, trade, and debt policies. It also covers the 2005 Gleneagles G8 and WTO summit...

Finding middle ground: Perspectives on sustainable living in rural Italy

by Maria DiGiovanni | January 9, 2025 | Articles | 0 Comments

I recently spent nine months traveling up mountains and along coasts to investigate why and how young people are choosing to farm for a living in Calabria, a southern region of Italy known for having lots of land but increasingly less people and even fewer jobs. I met...

‘Going Beyond the Poster Itself’: The Climate Museum’s #BeyondLies Campaign

Jan 9, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Yelena Odintsova. I couldn’t help but scroll back to the image I just passed on Instagram. I was looking at a graphic of a brown sole coming down on, as if wanting to stomp and crush, a person. ‘BEYOND INDIVIDUAL BLAME’, read the graphic, with a...

Youth Empowerment & Sustainability on Campus: A Conversation with Perry Dripps

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. I was once a student on a college campus, and I’ve been around people like Perry Dripps, the Sustainability Engagement Program Coordinator at the Penn State Sustainability Institute that worked to empower...

Sustainable Consumption, Gender & Justice: A Conversation with Lucie Middlemiss

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Mike Jones. Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. In July, I came across an article in The Guardian about the eco-gender gap, which essentially speaks to the ways that saving the world, at least on an environmental level, is deemed to...

Who will be left to warn?

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Black Light Media. If there is anything that has made me pause a few times this week, it is the photograph taken by Konstantinos Tsakalidis that’s circled mass media as well as social media. An old woman with wildfires raging behind her in the village of...

We Can’t Escape This: On Breathing & Social Justice

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Mido Makasardi ©️. The day after George Floyd’s murder, the neighborhood residents around S. Carrollton Ave. in New Orleans began their daily nine-minute silent protest, as silent as a protest can be with the St. Charles streetcar rumbling down the...

The Public Health Job Market in A Public Health Crisis

Jan 6, 2025 | Articles

PhotoCredit: Mikhail Nilov. “Since the beginning of 2020, I have submitted 700+ job applications-” I stopped reading the Facebook post written by a friend I made in graduate school where we were working towards a master’s of public health a few years ago. I exited...