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Fast Fashion: The Fad that Failed
Technology has played the largest role in the rise of fast fashion. Social media rules the fashion industry- with the youth turning to the likes of Snapchat and Instagram models for clothing tips, advice and inspiration. This means that now, clothing choices are more versatile than ever- instead of waiting for Vogue’s seasonal magazine debating new trends, one negative post from a social media star is enough to completely turn the tides against a company. The Ellen Macarthur foundation has estimated that the amount of clothes produced has doubled over the last 15 years. It is important to...
Growing up with eco-anxiety
What do children and teenagers worry about? A lot of things, really: homework, peer pressure, body image, career, problems at school, family tensions, not to mention their own mental health. But recently, another stress factor has crept on this already long list of concerns, and its influence can be just as major: eco-anxiety. Eco-anxiety is not an old term and it’s definitely not something that previous generations have experienced. The term was barely coined in 2017, when the American Psychological Association first defined it as “a chronic fear of environmental doom.” According to the U.N...
The Surprising Ways That Poverty Impacts Your Health
Poverty is a huge issue around most of the planet. While there are a few countries that are often cited as having incredibly low poverty rates compared to the rest of the world, they still have to contend with poverty and the problems that come with it as well. The simple truth of the matter is that wherever you go, there will be some level of poverty either on full display or hidden behind the scenes. In either case, poverty can have serious impacts on health that many fail to consider as they are not immediately obvious. Things Most Take For Granted When healthcare comes to mind, people...
The Real Cost of Fashion
The term “fast fashion” has recently become a popular turn of phrase used to represent cheap, trendy clothing from retailers such as H&M and Zara. On the surface, fast fashion may seem like a technological innovation - the constant designing and manufacturing of new styles for such low prices seems almost revolutionary. Hidden behind these low prices, however, are high environmental and ethical costs that may make you rethink your next clothing purchase. Environmental Impact The havoc fast fashion has wreaked on the environment has been extensive. In terms of clothing production, fast fashion...
I've been feeling miserable
It's funny how my last post is about feeling better and now I'm writing about how miserable I am, but I feel a strong urge to write about every aspect of my life. The good and the bad. In order for you to understand why I am so miserable, firstly I need to tell you about my backround. I am a 19 year old student studying communication sciences (which was my dream college). Currently I am in a healthy relationship, for the first time, with an phenomenal person. I am living with my brother and sister since my parents moved to Germany to work. I am financially stable and my grades are excellent...
Superfoods or superlies?
More than only honey
Climate change is happening. And it's caused by humans
Climate change is happening In recent decades, the climate has undergone major changes. The earth has become considerably warmer and we have had to face extremer weathers. This has raised the question of what the cause of this phenomenon may be. Many researchers speculate that the increase of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is anthropogenically caused. However, there are scholars who claim that climate change is not due to man with the argument that global warming is entirely natural. This, however, is false. The climate change that we are currently experiencing is predominantly generated...
Childhood Cancer, a battle of gold
February 15th is commemorated as the international day of fight against childhood Cancer. Declaration that was made in Luxembourg in 2001 and created by the international organization of childhood Cancer, as an objective to raise awareness about the importance of the challenges children and their families face, as well as to promote the importance that all children anywhere in the world have access to accure diagnosis and treatment in time. The golden tie is used as a symbol of courage and strength of gold in the face of this disease, being his un wavering, inspiring and valuable strength. It...
Deathly healthcare
The New Crisis: Locust Swarms in East Africa
Several governments in East Africa have declared that new locust infestation as a state of emergency. The UN warns of potential food crises in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. These desert locusts eat everything that comes into their path, consuming the crops farmed by local people. This year's locust breeding is on an alarmingly bigger scale than previous years. Locusts breed rapidly, but only when the conditions are right, so their population is controlled. Unfortunately, climate change has produced excessive havens of perfect conditions for their breeding. After months of...
GO GREEN OR GO HOME, STOP AIR POLLUTION NOW!
Hi, I’m Michael Day, and I’m here to tell you about my research project. Me and my group created some milk carton squares with vaseline on it to check the air qualities at our homes. Each of us hung it in a certain location. I hung my set of squares in my backyard, pool, gate of my house, balcony and bedroom window. I knew each of them would completely change color, from the trucks and cars that pass by my house every morning. Like I said, we decided to measure the air quality because the problem was, my country Haiti is…. A bit dirty. So, we decided to check air quality to see if it is good...
The Lack of Clean Water
The problem is the lack of clean water in the world. Some people who can not afford clean water have to drink dirty polluted water and sometimes end up sick or dead. When not drinking the dirty water you can still end up sick or dead from dehydration. But there are solutions to these problems but some are expensive and don’t even work. People that aren’t able to find clean water have to find a different way to filter the water like a homemade filter or buy a more expensive filter. To solve the problem of the lack of clean water we ( this was a group project) needed to find things that were...
Solution to Waste Management Issues
As we all know, plastic waste is a big environmental problem. A big part of that is plastic plates, cutlery, and bottles. Many organizations have been working on finding a solution. If we were to only use edible cutlery then plastic waste management wouldn’t be such a problem because the amount of plastic used would be reduced. Our experiment consists of finding the most durable and long lasting recipe of edible cutlery. We chose three different recipes and we will measure how long they can last in a liquid substance such as hot milk. The recipes we chose were: granola, sugar cookie, and dough...
Stop Air Pollution Today!!!
My experiment is about air pollution, which is bad because it can kill people and the fumes are extremely dangerous to people and animals. Air pollution has been here for a long time, let's just finally kill it once in for all so the next generations can have a perfect, clean world to live in. The steps we took in our experiments were: First we cut open a milk carton and turn it into squares then you put vaseline all over the squares and you put it in an area to test air pollution. Our the way we choose to stop the problem is by giving factories something else to use like high-powered solar...
Idea on how to give back nutrients to the soil
The Earth's soils are losing their nutrients because of things like flooding and overplanting. It may not seem like a big issue, but it is. This worsens already existing problems like world hunger. The lack of nutrients makes the soil produce fewer crops, therefore more people won't have food. To address this problem, I have come up with an idea to help re-fertilize the Earth. Dropping it from above! By dropping it from above with a plane of sorts onto nutrient-lacking areas of soil, we wouldn't have to worry about spreading it ourselves. To test this theory, I decided to try airdropping a...
Coronavirus does not justify racism or xenophobia
As of early March, there are close to 90,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in almost 60 different countries. Most of these cases (almost 80,000) are in China. Because of this, and the fact that the infection started in China, Covid-19 fears are being used to fuel Sinophobia and anti-Asian racism at large, as well as xenophobia. This is detrimental for so many reasons; racism is always detrimental. There have been reported cases, particularly in North America, Europe and Asia, of people making racist jokes related to Chinese people and the Coronavirus, putting Asians in quarantine solely on the...
The Covid-19 is conceptual
The Stars Tonight...
Look at the night sky. With its velvet colors and glittering waves. Look at the stars and how they scatter across the darkness like drops in the sea. You can't. Stuck in the city with its smog and smoke. Trapped within walls and constraints. You can’t see much past the smoke except for a few glimmers here and there if you strain your eyes. You can’t see much at all thanks to all the light pollution smothering out the soft stars in their blinding light. Pollution is one of the leading causes for global warming. It’s also one of the main causes for us never being able to see the night sky. Light...