Sustainable Perspectives

Like many things in life, sustainability can be a spectrum. The list of things that all of us can do in order to help the planet is endless; we must all find the balance in our own lives with what we are able to sacrifice for the greater good. Only...

Fall break is finally here. Many of us are probably planning to travel home for the holidays and may face the difficult task of teaching our relatives about the zero waste ideologies that we have grown to love here at CU. This is a very tricky topic to bring up...

Plastic production is a huge problem, and it is increasing exponentially - by 448 million tons since 2015 (nationalgeographic.com). In a world that produces so much plastic, it is nearly impossible to avoid having unrecyclable plastics in our homes, no matter how hard we try to go plastic-free. Don’t worry,...

Owning and maintaining a car can be a hefty expense for college students who are already paying for tuition and additional living expenses. Transportation Services at CU offers a wide range of options around campus, including buses, electric bikes and now e-scooters. However, sometimes students want to venture beyond what...

You may have heard the term eco-social justice, or phrases such as “racial justice is climate justice” and “there is no climate justice without racial justice.” But what exactly do people mean when they use this language?

Take a look back at environmentalist heroes and villians depicted in the past.

SCOBY -- symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast -- could transform the leather industry.

The Pestalotiopsis genus of fungi is capable of degrading certain forms of plastic, making it a viable solution to eliminate some plastics from landfills.

Imagine this. You’ve taken a wrong turn off U.S. Route 64 in northern New Mexico and suddenly find yourself on what seems to be an alien planet - a grouping of strange, organically shaped buildings located in the middle of nowhere. The buildings are low to the ground, horseshoe-shaped and...

Lab grown meat sounds like a concept for the distant future, but with modern technology, it is closer than ever to being on your dinner table. Lab grown meat , or cultured meat, is produced when stem cells from an animal are taken and grown in vitro or in a...