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Eating for yourself and the planet: Get you a diet that can …

WebThen in the 1970s, low-carbohydrate diets began to proliferate in the mainstream, starting with the success of The Atkin’s Diet and followed by The Paleo …

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There’s Seaweed in Your Milk! How Algae Drives Our …

WebNov 22, 2023. There’s Seaweed in Your Milk! How Algae Drives Our Food System. By Jessica Clemens. In elementary school, I remember being interrupted one day by a …

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An Overview of Shape Our Water: Seattle Public Utilities’ …

WebShape Our Water is a plan to identify, implement, and manage community-centered, long-term investments in drainage and wastewater policies, programs and …

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Treating the blues: how blue spaces have a positive …

WebStudies like White et al. (2021)’s exploration of natural spaces and mental health show that frequent visits to green and blue spaces are positively associated with …

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Environmental Justice: Increasingly Making its Way into …

WebSigned into law by Governor Jay Inslee in 2019, the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) provides a pathway to achieving a greenhouse gas (GHG) …

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The power of nature in fostering connectedness and …

WebNature not only provides economic and ecosystem services, but social and mental health benefits as well. Research has shown that nature helps reduce anxiety …

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The Buffa-Low-Down: the ecological past, present, and …

WebToday the number of buffalo in the U.S. averages around 500,000, but just over a century ago they faced extinction with numbers in the low hundreds. The …

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Scoop the Poop: It’s Your Environmental Doody (pun …

WebOn average, a dog excretes between 0.5 and 0.75 pounds of waste per day. One gram of dog waste contains about 23 million coliform bacteria, nearly twice the amount found in …

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A Timeline of Eelgrass Restoration

WebThe dynamic coastline of Puget Sound is known for scenic coastal views and abundant wildlife with an impressive diversity of seabirds, fish, and invertebrates. A …

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Managing Graduate School with Depression

WebManaging Graduate School with Depression. By Raven Benko. As a student of Western science, my immediate intuition was to begin this story with data. I thought about …

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School of Marine and Environmental Affairs

WebIntroduction: Climate change and ocean acidification threaten the persistence of contemporary marine ecosystems and the human communities that rely on them. …

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The Evolution of Environmental Movements: Responding to …

WebRachel Carson (credit: Alfred Eisenstaedt, Getty Images) One piece of work that is synonymous with this era of environmentalism is Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, …

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Lost at Sea: Seafarers and Mental Health

WebCW: Mental Health; Attempted Suicide The life of a seafarer can be a difficult one. Whether they fish, haul cargo, or haul passengers, it is often, by definition, a life away from friends …

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Changing Oceans: How can climate change lead to less fish catch

WebChanges to the physical environment will in turn create changes in the abundance, health, and distribution of marine populations that are harvested for …

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An exploration into Anishinaabe food systems – Featuring an …

WebIntroduction Our choices about what we consume and where it is sourced can contribute to positive environmental and social change. Last quarter, I published an …

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Defining Sustainable Seafood: The Use of Life Cycle Assessment …

WebBy Teressa Pucylowski Seafood has long been a valuable source of food across the globe and, despite concerns about overfishing, global per capita availability of …

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Social Media and Environmental Activism: An Evolving Relationship

WebSocial media allows people to express themselves outside of a professional setting, sharing information quickly and widely with millions of people across the planet. While network …

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Air pollution: Our lingering pandemic, but one we can control

WebWhile rising temperatures and increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses tend to steal the thunder of atmospheric-related news, air pollution is another …

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From tree to forest: resilience in the face of climate change

WebResilience according to the IPCC: The ability of a system and its component parts to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, or recover from the effects of a hazardous event in a …

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Conservation refugees: The insidious nature of Western …

WebHuman-Nature Duality and Early Environmentalism The separation of humans and nature has dominated Western conservation ideology for over a century. …

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