Tag: Earth in Brackets

by Mariana Calderón Or: How Does This Whole Conference Thing Work, and What Are You Guys Doing There Anyways? ( An explanation as to how this place is set up, and how we're learning what we're learning) Just imagine: 60+ youth participants in blue shirts, scurrying in a mob down a dirt path in a pitch-dark jungle, with only a few scattered flashlights and headlamps to guide them. People were...

by Moisés Flores Baca In my History of Filmmaking class this past Fall term we got the opportunity to look at various films that are considered propagandistic, including a few by the famous german filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who worked during Hitler's regime being one of his favorite people. When we think of the Nazi regime normally nothing positive comes to mind. This is why it came as a big...

by Jane I. P. Nurse It's the third day of the negotiations and there are dark clouds hovering over the Kyoto Protocol. Japan has shocked us all with an aggressive up-start at the beginning of this week. By proclaiming that it won't sign on to a second commitment period after the Kyoto protocol runs out in 2012, it basically backstabs everybody trying to push for further emission reduction...