Written by: Carmen Rueda Lindemann An Unprecedented Level of Destruction On October 29, 2024, Valencia and its metropolitan area were devastated by catastrophic flooding, as over an entire year’s worth of rain (500mm) fell in just eight hours, marking Europe’s most severe flood event since 1967. This extreme event wasContinue Reading
By Margaux Marzuoli Having discussed the critical need to move away from fossil fuel combustion as a source of energy, as well as potential solutions, the third part of this article draws attention to the importance of local and non-governmental actors in the fight to reduce our energy consumption. TheContinue Reading
By Margaux Marzuoli Having discussed the emergence of the climate crisis and established the current need to move away from fossil fuel combustion as a source of energy, the second part of this article addresses potential solutions. These include, yet must not be limited to, renewable energies (including photovoltaic solarContinue Reading
Written by Margaux Marzuoli What is the problem? Our planet is warming up because of the effects of greenhouse gasses. These gasses trap heat from the sun – like a greenhouse – and progressively heat up the planet. This is a problem because humans, along with many other species, cannotContinue Reading
By Ricarda Blümcke On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared Covid-19 a pandemic. At that point, our planet had already warmed by 1.2C since pre-industrial times. What followed this were unprecedented restrictions, encompassing travel constraints, working and studying from home, and business closures worldwide – dramatically reducingContinue Reading
By Hannah Vonberg Climate change has been a major scientific concern since at least the 1960s, yet it is still largely dismissed from political agendas in many countries. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Fridays for Future protestors have had to stay at home while politicians were busy trying to solve theContinue Reading
By Lauren Griesedieck Growing up, most of us have been told that we should recycle our plastic in order to help the environment. While we have been taught to reduce, reuse, and recycle, this type of thinking is not actually sustainable. In reality, it should be reduce and reuse, andContinue Reading
By Helena Reinders Five years ago, over 180 countries and the European Union signed the Paris Agreement, also known as COP 21. By doing so, they all agreed that by 2020 all those who signed should hand in their new climate policy plans. Between the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the UnitedContinue Reading
By Juni Moltubak, Arianna Pearlstein, and Helena Reinders Second hand, thrifted, ethical, vegan, organic, local, recycled, minimalistic, fair. What does it really mean to be a sustainable brand? In fashion, sustainable brands usually emphasise two things: the environmental impact of production (fabrics, shipping, chemicals) and ethical production (fair wages, aContinue Reading