26 | May | 2015 | Rethinking Prosperity

Cleaning Your Face While Polluting The Ocean

Author: Stephanie ForbisOn: May 26Categories: Consumption, Undergraduate Post No Comments

Cleaning Your Face While Polluting The Ocean

ByMolly Leischner | There is irony in that we can be both cleaning our face and polluting the oceans at the same time. Do you use a face wash that also exfoliates? Well those little beads that make the product an exfoliator are actually plastics. Those...

Bright and Beautiful

Author: Crysti ChenOn: May 26Categories: Undergraduate Post No Comments

Bright and Beautiful

Undergraduate Post

By Zinan Chen | In 2012, my friends from Harvard University, Boston College and Wuhan University in China came to me and proposed a campaign named “Bright and Beautiful.” They wanted to help girls in conservative Asian societies to stand out, to enjoy...

What Environmental Activists Can Learn from Politicians

Author: Xu QifeiOn: May 26Categories: Undergraduate Post No Comments

What Environmental Activists Can Learn from Politicians

Undergraduate Post

By Xu Qifei | Is there actually a scientific consensus on climate change, hydraulic fracturing, nuclear wastes and other controversial environmental issues? In a way, asking questions like that is almost irrelevant at this point. The rhetoric against...