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I enjoyed reading “Allegiance to Gratitude” beyond what my words can encompass. In particular, it was relieving to read the opposition to the Pledge of Allegiance, especially in regards to it being mandatory in school systems. Of course, since I grew up in New Jersey, this is something I experienced as well. In addition to…

Most of my formative years have been spent in an extremely urban area. Growing up, my knowledge and teaching of the Earth and its potential beauty was limited to pictures in textbooks and on the Internet. Because of this, my experiences with nature, even to this day, feel so much more pronounced and powerful to…

Last week, I had reviewed a video game discussing the perspective of environmental issues humans often do not consider – a bee’s. Today, I wanted to find an art piece that encompassed the harsh reality of coal mining and its associated industry/place in the grand scheme of capitalistic ideals and practices. In my research, I…

It is typically pretty easy to find books and art pieces discussing the matters of environmental justice and human impact on the world at large. However, I think a niche that has yet to be fully tapped into is the use of video games to illustrate the ideas of sustainability and environmental justice. That is…

The given excerpt from Bigelow and Swineheart’s book (Chapter 3) gives the reader an example of environmental teaching implemented in the authors’ curriculum entitled “The Climate Change Mixer”. It “introduces students to 17 individuals around the world- each of whom is affected differently by climate change (p. 92).” After reading the chapter and doing my…

My own environmental education is almost identical to that of the one described in Bigalow and Swineheart’s article. Growing up, my parents sent my sister and I to private, Catholic schools. The school system in my area was large and poorly funded (yet another byproduct of urbanization and poor urban planning), which steered my parents…

Both Bilott’s and Bigelow and Swineheart’s articles discuss a major key topic/point of environmental justice: poor people and the suffering they endure throughout the process of mass consumerism. Bigelow and Swineheart’s article discusses the thought that everything in the world is deeply interconnected; however, because of mass consumerism and the processes in which such occurs,…

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