by April Wendling | Sep 13, 2022 | A River Runs Through It, Environmental Justice
By Tori Ruzzier and Sydney Sadler As the clock struck 10 a.m. one day in 1969, weathered shoes shuffled across Green Street in front of the Illini Union. With coffee steam billowing out of their styrofoam cups and ties tied tight, aeronautical engineering student...
by April Wendling | Feb 25, 2022 | Food Systems
By Zara Nyhus Pulling up to Two Mile Creek Farm, I had to smile, because owner Steve Buxton looks just like I expected a lifelong Midwestern farmer to look. He is tall, broad, and thoroughly sun-kissed. He wears thick brown boots, a tattered red hoodie, and blue jean...
by April Wendling | Feb 24, 2022 | Energy Futures, Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest, Opinion/Editorial
By Kayla Vittore The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t only affected human life; the global climate also felt the impact of this historic event. There was a 6 to 7 percent decline in atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions last year due to a drastic reduction in travel and...
by April Wendling | Feb 24, 2022 | Living World
By Grace Finnell-Gudwien It was a dimly moonlit night in January 2020 when University of Illinois freshman Lauren Bartels and her sister boarded a tandem kayak in Laguna Grande, Puerto Rico, for a tour. Paddling through a canal, they saw ahead something quite...
by April Wendling | Feb 23, 2022 | Emerging Technology, Energy Futures, Janelle Joseph Environmental Writing Contest
By Tyler Swanson Bitcoin has been called “The People’s Currency” and “The Currency of the Future,” but whatever the name, its rise to prominence in recent years is astonishing. While Bitcoin was initially intended to act as a decentralized currency that anyone...
