Tag: Environment
OxSEA seeks to clean the ocean and educate LA’s youth
As OxSEA, Occidental’s ocean conservation and sustainability club, begins its first full year on campus, co-presidents Mia Jones (junior) and JP Flores (junior) are...
Eat to reflect your values: Why meat contributes to climate change
Each year, more than 9 billion animals are killed for human consumption in the U.S. alone. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report in 2018 outlining the damage...
February showers bring many flowers to campus
According to biology professor Beth Braker, "super bloom" is not a technical term at all, but that does not keep her from using the...
Students advocate for alternative practices to fast fashion
As recently as two decades ago, seasons dictated everything in the fashion industry, and what was in a store stayed on the shelf for...
Occidental’s struggle of urban vs. wild, native vs. invasive creates a...
Occidental College sits squarely within a thoroughly urban setting, yet it engages with the natural world in a variety of ways. Nestled between Mount Fiji...
“Dad’s night out” leads to Martian concrete
Geology department chair and professor Chris Oze and his research partner Allan Scott, a professor at the University of Canterbury, have discovered a new way...