Braiding Sweetgrass: Windigo Footprints For my close reading I picked Windigo footprints, from the burning sweetgrass chapter. I choose this chapter because I had the feeling that Robin Kimmerer was trying to convey something deeper. The story of the windego is told by the eyes of Kimmerer and the knowledge of her elders. Kimmerer uses […]
La Planete Sauvage: La Planete Sauvage (Fantastic Planet) is a 1973 science fiction animated French/Czech film. I choose this film because of its relation to the human race. La Planete Sauvage film tells a story about humans that are living in a planet that is dominated by huge blue humanoid aliens. In this planet the […]
My personal relationship to the world around me has changed over the spam of this term. Where I come from there is not much effort on expressing the importance of the environment or spreading awareness of its decline due to human impact. Reading the novels made me realize how much environmentalism there is in peoples […]
My artistic curation demonstrates my understanding of how I relate to the natural world and my ideas towards the Anthropocene. The 8 meteorites pictured above represent mass extinction, climate change, global warming, pollution, deforestation, carbon footprint, and ocean acidity. If we were to look back in time the buildings above would instead be dinosaurs and […]
Annotated Bibliography: Ray, Sarah Jaquette. “Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon.” Scientific American, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2021, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-unbearable-whiteness-of-climate-anxiety/. The concerns of racial implications of climate anxiety and it is affecting indigenous communities and people of color. Author Sarah Ray Jaquette questions if the real concern of white people is to get back to […]
Hi my name is Sol, I am a sophomore but this is my first year at UofO. I moved to Eugene four months ago after living in South Carolina all my life and so far I am loving Oregon! My major is undeclared but I am leaning towards environmental studies and food studies minor.
