Emory Environmental Report

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  • Federally Mandated Erasure: Where is EJScreen? 

    Author: Sonya Doubledee Editor: Victoria Maza “Attempting to delete the data is an explicit attempt to erase the most recent scientific data on environmental health outcomes and suppress public understanding of how manufacturing and production put human health at risk.” – Anonymous As of early February, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) EJScreen Tool (Environmental Justice Mapping…

  • Corn is In Everything (and why that’s a bad thing)

    Author: Natalia Freeze Editor: Sonya Doubledee It can feel overwhelming, standing against the monolith of industrial agriculture, a system so vast and entrenched that individual action seems insignificant and helpless.  For over ten millennia, corn has been a vital staple of human agriculture, first cultivated by the Indigenous peoples of ancient Mexico. Among the Iroquois…

  • Easy Sustainable Swaps for Broke College Students

    Author: Jessie Satovsky. Editors: Maria Mendoza and Sandy Askins. Created to point fingers at environmentalists in the face of environmental activism, they used it to shift blame to individuals, pointing out per-capita greenhouse gas emissions. Their propaganda worked, which is why many people feel pressure to be sustainable. This is especially true for college students…

  • One on One with Dr. Ajibade: ‘The Pursuit of ‘Care’

    Author: Sonya Doubledee Revised by Dr. Ajibade Editors: Clara Conry and Jared Shirts “I don’t place the climate crisis above everything else. I place human relations and our care for one another much higher.” “How can we bridge the gap between conservation and environmental justice advocates when the two groups have very different goals and…